The Antiracist Courtroom
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to
Course Location
Montgomery, AL
This groundbreaking five-day course combines embodied experience and jurisprudence to create a deep emotional and intellectual understanding of racial bias in the courts and reducing disparities through nontraditional community-based diversion and other practices. The multi-disciplinary curriculum includes history, experiential learning, cognitive science, and psychological and sociological research. The class will visit Selma as well as the Equal Justice Initiative. After taking this course, you will understand how to identify sources of personal and systemic bias within the judiciary and know the concrete, actionable steps you can take to address and reduce bias and disparities in your courtroom.
Scholarship assistance makes NJC courses more affordable for judges.
During this course, you will learn to:
- Identify sources of personal and systemic bias in their courtrooms
- Differentiate between effective and ineffective interventions
- Create or facilitate effective interventions to address bias in their courtrooms
- Lead impactful initiatives to identify and mitigate sources of bias in the legal system
- Learn about developmental factors that make adolescents different from adults and their amenability to change and diversion.
- Understand how alternative sentencing works and acquire best practices to implement/improve in your courtroom.
CLE/CJE credit hour estimates* are 23 hours total credits with 2 hours of credits devoted to ethics.
This groundbreaking five-day course combines embodied experience and jurisprudence to create a deep emotional and intellectual understanding of racial bias in the courts and reducing disparities through nontraditional community-based diversion and other practices. The multi-disciplinary curriculum includes history, experiential learning, cognitive science, and psychological and sociological research. The class will visit Selma as well as the Equal Justice Initiative. After taking this course, you will understand how to identify sources of personal and systemic bias within the judiciary and know the concrete, actionable steps you can take to address and reduce bias and disparities in your courtroom.