Ethical and Procedural Challenges for Administrative Law Judges: Handling Complex Issues and Cases
Tuition
600
Days & Times
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This multi-week course will take place on Thursdays. The live course will be on: Thursday – April 22 – 12 p.m. Pacific/3 p.m. Eastern; April 29 – 12 p.m. Pacific/3 p.m. Eastern; May 13 – 12 p.m. Pacific/3 p.m. Eastern; May 20 – 12 p.m. Pacific/3 p.m. Eastern.
Course Location
Online
Course Fees
Tuition
$600
Being a judge in the administrative world is challenging, now more than ever. Administrative law judges face a whole host of challenges and pressures that are different than those faced by Article III judges and other state court of record judges. Whether you are a local, state, or federal administrative law judge, this course is designed to address the issues unique to administrative adjudicators and proceedings they conduct. This faculty-led online course uses hypothetical and real-world scenarios, interactive learning activities, and online discussion to explore the distinct challenges that face the administrative law judge in today’s world. Discussions focus on the ethical, procedural, and political pressures facing the administrative law judiciary, local, state, and federal. You’ll be able to apply relevant model codes to your daily activities and learn tools for dealing with difficult litigants, internal and external governmental pressures, and interpersonal issues that arise in administrative judicial settings.
Course $600
Scholarship assistance makes NJC courses more affordable for judges.
During this course, you will learn to:
- Identify and distinguish between proper and improper courtroom related behavior.
- Identify and distinguish between proper and improper action in dealing with self-represented litigants.
- Identify and distinguish between proper and improper action in dealing with ex parte communications and external pressures.
- Identify and explain how bias and stereotyping may impact court proceedings and how to rectify it.
- Identify and address improper efforts to interfere with judicial independence (subtle and blatant) from inside and outside your agency and employ ethical and practical approaches to insulate yourself and the process from those efforts.
- Employ ethical and practical approaches to address cases where agency precedent and policy may appear incongruent with your interpretation of statutory language and/or controlling state or federal case law.
- Identify and address interpersonal issues that arise inside and outside of case proceedings.
Why should I take this course?
Be more confident and capable in your ability to handle ethical and procedural conundrums in administrative law proceedings.
Who should attend?
Federal, state, local and tribal administrative law judges
When should I register?
While registration is accepted up until the first live web-conference, we strongly encourage you to register prior to July 6 to ensure you have time to complete any pre-course assignments as well as secure online credentials to attend the first live class. Online credentials are granted through the University of Nevada, Reno and are not completely within the NJC’s control.
Who are the members of the faculty?
The faculty team is composed of judges with extensive teaching experience in the area of administrative law. Additionally, the faculty for this course may include a law school professor with experience teaching administrative law courses.
How is this course taught?
Discussion assignments, writing assignments, reading, video and weekly live calls with faculty ensure this course is highly interactive, demanding, and educational. It is anticipated that you will spend between three and four hours on lessons per week, with a total of six weeks of instruction (week four is a break week). On Thursday of each week of the course, the faculty will deliver a live hour-long web conference at 11 a.m. Alaska / 12 p.m. Pacific / 1 p.m. Mountain / 2 p.m. Central / 3 p.m. Eastern.
Whom should I contact for more information?
For more information, please contact the Registrar’s Office at (800) 255-8343 or registrar@judges.org.
Being a judge in the administrative world is challenging, now more than ever. Administrative law judges face a whole host of challenges and pressures that are different than those faced by Article III judges and other state court of record judges. Whether you are a local, state, or federal administrative law judge, this course is designed to address the issues unique to administrative adjudicators and proceedings they conduct. This faculty-led online course uses hypothetical and real-world scenarios, interactive learning activities, and online discussion to explore the distinct challenges that face the administrative law judge in today’s world. Discussions focus on the ethical, procedural, and political pressures facing the administrative law judiciary, local, state, and federal. You’ll be able to apply relevant model codes to your daily activities and learn tools for dealing with difficult litigants, internal and external governmental pressures, and interpersonal issues that arise in administrative judicial settings.