Judge John Adams
New Zealand
Judge John Adams has been a member of teaching faculties of the
New Zealand Institute of Judicial Studies
since its inception. He has been a member of the Governing Board
and a member of the Curriculum
Committee throughout the period when the Curriculum has been developed.
He undertook a period of
secondment to the Secretariat. Judge Adams was appointed to the
District Court and Family Court in New Zealand in
1995. He had formerly engaged in delivering education for the
New Zealand Law Society, particularly in family law
matters. He was a consulting editor to Butterworths Family Law
Service of New Zealand.
Justice Joseph Akamba
Ghana
Justice Joseph Akamba is the Director of the Judicial Training
Institute of Ghana. The JTI is mandated to
initiate and carry out training for judges, magistrates and staff
of the Judicial Service to enhance their various
capacities and so as to enhance justice delivery in Ghana.
Justice Akamba was appointed as a Justice of the Court of Appeal
of Ghana in June 2002. Previously he was
at the Ghanaian Bar (1974), Assistant State Attorney (1975), a
District Magistrate (1977), a Justice of the
High Court of the High Court of Ghana (1989), Director of Public
Prosecutions (1999), and a Justice of the
Gambian Court of Appeal (1999).
Chief Justice Madhat al-Mahmood
Iraq
Chief Justice Madhat was appointed as the Chief of the Federal
Supreme Court of Iraq and Chief of Higher Juridical
Council in 2005. He also holds the appointment of Chief of the
Higher Juridical Council. Chief Justice Madhat was first
appointed as a judge in 1967, serving in a range of courts including
the Juvenile Court of Baghdad. His expertise lies in
Civil Law and he has previously served as Professor of Civil Litigation
and Executive Laws at the Juridical Training
Institute of Iraq. Chief Justice Madhat is a founding member of
the Arab Centre for Justice and Legal Studies and a
member of the Arab Centre for Development of the Rule of Law and
Integrity.
Mr Livingston Armytage
Australia
Mr Livingston Armytage is the Director of the Centre for Judicial
Studies (Sydney, Australia), an
independent non government agency which provides legal/judicial
development and reform services to
courts, government legal agencies, universities, law firms and
major donors around the world.
Mr Armytage has thirty-five years experience directing programs
of judicial reform and development, and
practising law. More recently, he has specialised in leading major
programs of legal and judicial reform in
more than twenty countries across Asia, including Pakistan for
the Asian Development Bank, Afghanistan
for USAID, Cambodia for UNDP, and Papua New Guinea and Samoa for
AusAID. He has published books
and many articles on judicial education. He is editor of ‘Searching
for Success in Judicial Reform: Voices
from Asia Pacific Experience’ (Oxford University Press 2009)
and author of ‘Educating Judges: Towards a
New Model of Continuing Judicial Learning’ (Kluwer Law International
1996).
Senior Judge Barbara Arnold Harcourt
United States of America
Judge Barbara Arnold-Harcourt currently acts as Court Personnel
Education Attorney for the Indiana Judicial
Center developing educational programs for trial court staff.
She has been teaching for the National Judicial
College (USA) since 1993. She helped develop the second on-line
course for that institution in 2002 and has
been active in the on-line educational environment to the present.
Prior to receiving her legal degree in 1987 Judge
Arnold-Harcourt was employed by county welfare departments for
ten years a caseworker working with abused and
neglected children and served as agency director. She was first
elected to the Rush Circuit Court of Indiana, a court of
general jurisdiction, in 1989. She served three six-year terms
in that court. In 2007 Judge Arnold Harcourt took Senior
Judge status. The Indiana Supreme Court appointed Judge Arnold-Harcourt
to the Judicial Education Committee,
where she served from 1993 to 2001 and from 2003 to the present.
She has been appointed chair of both the
Education and Magistrate Committees.
Justice Felix Azon Vilas
Spain
Justice Felix Azon Vilas is a member of the Spanish General Council
for the Judiciary, a constitutional body
which deals with the independence of the judiciary. His most important
responsibilities on the Council are in
the field of judicial education and judicial training. As a member
of the Judicial School Commission he
works in initial and continuous training. He has developed e-learning
education for judges, not only in Spain but also
across European Union countries. Justice Azon Vilas worked as
a lawyer from 1978 to 1994. In 1994 he was
appointed to the Bench and worked in a Civil and criminal Court
for 5 years. He was then appointed to the High Court
of Catalonia in Barcelona and specialised in labour and social
security law.
Justice Amady Ba
Senegal
Justice Amady Ba became Director at the Judicial Training Centre
of Dakar (National Judge School of
Senegal) in 1997. He provided extensive judicial training at both
national and international levels.
Justice Ba qualified as a Judge in 1985. He completed his training
at the French National School for Judges.
In 2002, Justice Ba was appointed to the International Development
and Law Organization (IDLO) in Rome
where he implemented projects to reinforce justice, the rule of
law and good governance in developing
countries. Justice Ba currently works at the International Criminal
Court (ICC) where, as Head of the
International Cooperation at the Office of the Prosecutor, he
is responsible for developing the ICC network
and judicial cooperation with States, the UN, international and
regional organizations, judicial institutions,
civil society and the academic community.
Justice Monica Bast
Canada
During her term as Assistant Chief Judge of the Provincial Court
of Alberta, Justice Monica Bast was
involved in the orientation and training of new judicial appointees.
Justice Bast was appointed to the Court of Queen’s Bench
of Alberta in August 2009. Before joining the
Court of Queen’s Bench, Justice Bast was an Assistant Chief
Judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta. Prior
to her appointment to the bench she had experience as a Federal
Crown Prosecutor and in private practice
primarily in the areas of Family Law and Divorce. Justice Bast
has been very active in continuing legal
education. She was a board member of the Legal Education Society
of Alberta during her last 6 years of
private practice and after her appointment to the bench she continued
to work with the board as the
Provincial Court non-voting representative.
Judge Ananda Mohan Bhattarai
Nepal
Judge Ananda Mohan Bhattarai is a member of the Extended Faculty
of the National Judicial Academy of
Nepal with which he has been associated since its establishment
in 2004.
Dr Bhattarai currently works as a Judge in the Court of Appeal
in Nepal. He is a recipient of the Hubert
Humphrey Fellowship (2002-03) under which he spent one academic
year at the MIT, USA. He also won the
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, (2005-06 and 08) under which
he pursued post-doctoral research at
Max Planck Institute for International Law & Comparative Public
Law, Germany
Chief Justice Michael Black AC
Australia
Chief Justice Michael Black has a keen interest in legal education
and judicial studies. As Chief Justice he
has actively supported the Federal Court’s work in the field
of judicial education including pioneering work
in the area of judicial studies in gender issues. He has been
active in judicial education in science and had
close links with the Washington-based Einstein Institute of Science
Health and the Courts.
From 1964 he practised as a barrister. He was appointed Queen’s
Counsel in 1980 and specialised in
appellate work before the High Court of Australia and other appellate
courts. In 1981 he was appointed the
Foundation Chairman of the Victorian Bar’s Readers Course,
the Bar’s pioneering course of instruction for
new barristers, he continued in this role until 1986. He was appointed
Chief Justice of the Federal Court in
1991.
Professor Amnon Carmi
Israel
Professor Amnon Carmi was elected as the Secretary-General of
the International Organization for Judicial
Training in 2002.
From 1958 to 1965 he practiced as a lawyer in Israel. He was appointed
magistrate in 1965 and subsequently
a judge of the District Court of Haifa from 1974 to 1992. From
1975 he lectured in Medical Law and Ethics
at the universities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. Since 1992 he has lectured
as a professor of law at the Law Faculty
of the University of Haifa. He has participated actively (presentation
of papers) at more than 150
international congresses abroad and, since 1973, at more than
300 local and international congresses and
conferences.
Deputy Chief Magistrate Paul Cloran
Australia
Deputy Chief Magistrate Paul Cloran has presented seminars to
many magistrates on behalf of the Judicial
Commission of New South Wales (Australia). The Commission is responsible
for the training of the
judiciary in the State of New South Wales. He has been instrumental
in increasing the interactive
components of magistrates’ education, particularly during
the time he was chair of the Local Court
Education Committee. He worked on orientation training of magistrates
in Papua New Guinea in 2007 and
2008. Deputy Chief Magistrate Cloran was appointed a Magistrate
of the Local Courts of New South Wales in
1987. He has been Deputy Chief Magistrate since 2006.
Judge Thomas Crabtree
Canada
Judge Thomas Crabtree has been active in judicial education since
his appointment to the Provincial Court
of British Columbia in 1999. He has served on the Court’s
Education Committee for a number of years and
was chair from 2004 to 2008. Tom continues to be involved in the
development and planning of judicial
programs and seminars.
He chaired the committee responsible for the education program
for the 2007 Joint Judicial
Conference involving 525 judges held in Vancouver Canada in 2007.
In 2007 he also participated in a
delegation of judges who travelled to meet with Chinese judges
in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Currently, Tom chairs the Court’s Education Review Committee
which has undertaken a review of the
organization and delivery of judicial education to the judges
of the Provincial Court of British Columbia.
Chief Justice John Doyle
Australia
Chief Justice John Doyle is chair of the Programs Advisory Committee
of the National Judicial College of
Australia (NJCA). He has been involved in the planning and presentation
of a number of NJCA programs
and was the Chair of the NJCA’s governing Board from 2002
until 2007.
Chief Justice Doyle was a partner in an Adelaide firm of solicitors
from 1970 to 1977. From 1977 until 1986
he practised at the Bar in Adelaide. His work at the Bar involved
most branches of the law with a substantial
involvement in appellate work. He was appointed a Queen’s
Counsel in 1981. In 1986 he was appointed
Solicitor-General of the State of South Australia. He was appointed
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
South Australia in May 1995.
Mr Mauricio Duce
Chile
Mr Mauricio Duce is the Program Director of the Justice Studies
Center of the Americas (JSCA), an
international organization of the Inter American system that supports
judicial reforms in the Americas. He
designs and implements training programs to improve the work of
the criminal justice systems in different
countries in Latin American and also conducts and supervises research
activities across the region.
Mr Duce has Tenure Professor at Diego Portales School of Law in
Chile and is Director of the Master
Program in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the same University.
Chief Justice Christine Durham
United States of America
Chief Justice Christine Durham chairs the Board of Directors for
the National Center for State Courts
(NCSC) in the United States of America. She has been active in
judicial education, and was a founder of the
Leadership Institute in Judicial Education.
Chief Justice Durham has been on the Utah Supreme Court since
1982, and has served as Chief Justice and
Chair of the Utah Judicial Council since 2002. She previously
served on the state trial court after a number
of years in private practice. Currently she is President of the
Conference of Chief Justices of the United
States. Past professional service includes the governing boards
of the American Inns of Court Foundation,
the Appellate Judges Conference of the ABA, the Rand Corporation’s
Institute for Civil Justice, the ABA’s
Commission on Women in the Profession, and the Federal Judicial
Conference’s Advisory Committee on the
Rules of Civil Procedure. She also serves on the American Bar
Association’s Council on Legal Education
and Admissions to the Bar, the entity that accredits American
law schools. She is a member of the Council
of the American Law Institute, and is a Fellow of the American
Bar Association. She was an adjunct
professor for many years at the University of Utah College of
Law, teaching state constitutional law.
Ms Mary Frances Edwards
United States of America
Ms Mary Frances Edwards is currently the Deputy in charge of the
Judicial Education and Development
Institute (JEDI) Project of the Justice and Law Enforcement Assistance
Program in Iraq. Since 2002 she has
also worked on Rule of Law projects in Mongolia, Egypt, and Kyrgyzstan
assisting judicial education
institutes to develop and sustain a curriculum of continuing professional
development. Previously she spent
six years at the National Judicial College (USA), developing and
managing judicial education courses that
included international and comparative law programs.
Ms Edwards has worked with major national judicial and legal educational
institutions on institutional
strengthening, new methodologies and curriculum development, train-the-trainers
courses, study tour design,
and other long-range, strategic activities. She has been in educational
management positions with the
National Judicial College, the District of Columbia Bar, and the
Association of Trial Lawyers of America,
among others. She has authored more than 20 articles, most about
continuing legal and judicial education.
Ms. Edwards has been a presenter at over twenty conferences, not
only in the United States but also in
Mongolia, South Africa, Mexico, England, Lebanon, Ghana, India,
Nepal, Germany, Australia, France,
Zimbabwe, Argentina, and Switzerland.
Associate Professor Karen Eltis
Canada
Ms Karen Eltis is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law
of the University of Ottawa (Section de droit
civil), Director of the bijuridical National Programme and Co-Director
of the Center for Law and
Technology. She served as Senior Advisor to the National Judicial
Institute (Canada).
Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, Ms Eltis was a litigation
associate in New York City. A past
Director of the Human Rights Centre, Professor Eltis specializes
in comparative constitutional law, with
particular interest in democratic governance, health and new technologies.
She taught Constitutional/Human
Rights Law at McGill University, University of Montreal, l’Université
de Rennes, and the Interdisciplinary
Center, Herzlia (Israel). Her recent publications include: “Judicial
Independence and the Politics of
Depoliticization” (with Fabien Gelinas), “E-mail Eavesdropping
in the Workplace” 51 McGill Law Journal
475, and “The Impact of the Internet on Courts and Judicial
Ethics” (forthcoming in L. Sossin and A. Dodek
eds. Judicial Independence in Canada and the World, University
of Toronto Press, 2009)).
Justice Gloria Epstein
Canada
Justice Gloria Epstein was appointed to the Court of Appeal of
Ontario in 2007. She was called to the Bar of
Ontario in 1979 and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992. Justice
Epstein was appointed to the Superior
Court of Justice (Ontario) in 1993. Since her appointment to the
Bench she has presided over cases in all
areas: civil, commercial, criminal and family.
Chief Justice Robert French
Australia
Chief Justice Robert French was appointed Chief Justice of Australia
in September 2008. At the time of his
appointment he was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from
1986.
Chief Justice French practised as a barrister and solicitor in
Western Australia from 1972 until 1983 when he
went to the Independent Bar. From 1994 to 1998 he was President
of the National Native Title Tribunal. He
was also a member of the Supreme Court of Fiji, a Deputy President
of the Australian Competition Tribunal
and a part-time member of the Australian Law Reform Commission.
From 2001 to January 2005 he was
president of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law.
Professor Benjamin Gianni
Canada
Professor Benjamin Gianni is Coordinator of Computer Education
at the National Judicial Institute of Canada.
Professor Mohan Gopal
India
Professor G. Mohan Gopal has been head of India’s National
Judicial Academy since 2006. He has
organized and conducted over 200 judicial conferences and personally
interacted with over 9,000 judges at
NJA. Professor Gopal served as the head of India’s National
Law School of India, Bangalore (2000-2003), as a
member of the World Bank Legal Department in Washington, DC from
(1986-2004) working on legal and
judicial reform projects in several countries for over two decades,
an Adjunct Professor of Law at
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC (1991-2000, 2003-2004)
during which period he
taught on law and development. He was a principal author of the
World Bank’s Global Legal Systems
Modernization Initiative in 2004.
Judge Victor Hall
United Kingdom
Judge Victor Hall is Secretary General of the European Judicial
Training Network based in Brussels on a
three year secondment. He is responsible for the Network’s
effectiveness, elaboration and conception in
judicial training initiatives in European Law across 27 countries.
He is responsible for the financial
effectiveness of the Network and the running of the office as
well as acting as the being Network’s
ambassador world-wide. As such he is a speaker at many national
and international events. Currently he is
responsible for the introduction of an e-learning capacity to
the Network and for re-commissioning the
website (2010).
Judge Hall was appointed to the Circuit Bench in England and Wales
in 1994. Previously he practiced at the
Bar for 23 years and for ten years sat as a judge in a part-time
capacity. Between 1998 – 2004 was a
syndicate leader at Judicial Studies Board ECHR/Human Rights Act
and various family law seminars. In
between 2002-2003 was appointed as the Course Director responsible
for organising Family Seminars for
England and Wales. In 2003 he was appointed the full-time Director
of Studies of the Judicial Studies. He
was responsible for instituting an initiative which has led to
the introduction of training opportunities for the
senior judiciary and in the introduction of management training
for judges with administrative
responsibilities. He started a comprehensive overview of the methods
and systems used in training members
of the full- and part-time judiciary. At the JSB he had a particular
interest in in national and international
methodologies of judicial and adult training, audio/visual methods
of delivery and the use of technology to
improve the services that training establishments supply to their
judges.
Justice Rodney Hansen
New Zealand
Justice Rodney Hansen is a member of the Governing Board of the
New Zealand Institute of Judicial Studies
and of the Institute’s committee responsible for developing
training programmes for judges. From 2001 to
2005 he was a member of the faculty which provided orientation
training to new judges.
Justice Hansen is a Judge of the High Court of New Zealand. Previously
he was a litigation partner of
national law firm before becoming a barrister sole in 1991. He
was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1995 and
a High Court Judge in 1999.
Magistrate David Heilpern
Australia
Magistrate David Heilpern is the senior faculty member of the
Magistrates Orientation Programme of the
Judicial Commission of New South Wales (Australia). He has been
a long serving member of the Local
Court Education Committee and been involved in training for magistrates
elsewhere in Australia, Papua New
Guinea, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands.
Prior to his appointment as a New South Wales Magistrate in 1999,
Magistrate Heilpern practiced as a
lawyer specialising in criminal law. He became a senior lecturer
in criminal law and eventually Academic
Programs Coordinator at Southern Cross University (New South Wales).
He is now Senior Civil Magistrate
at the Local Court of New South Wales.
Justice Thea P Herman
Canada
Justice Thea Herman is a Judicial Associate (International Cooperation)
with the National Judicial Institute
(Canada).
Justice Herman was appointed as a judge of the Superior Court
of Ontario in 2003. Prior to her appointment
to the bench, Justice Herman was head of International Legal Cooperation
at the federal Department of
Justice where she was responsible for the Department’s international
legal cooperation projects in Asia,
Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. She previously
served as Senior Assistant Deputy
Minister of Justice, with responsibility for policy. Prior to
joining the Ontario government, she was legal
counsel at Toronto Community Legal Assistance Services, a community
legal clinic at the Faculty of Law,
University of Toronto. Justice Herman is an active member of the
Canadian Chapter of the International
Association of Women Judges.
Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan
Pakistan
Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan is a judge in-charge of the Federal
Judicial Academy of Pakistan. He is
actively involved in judicial training of judges and law officers.
He has a strong interest in using technology
in judicial education and is playing a key role in establishing
the online courses. He is involved in a
Technical Exchange Program with the National Judicial Institute,
Canada.
Justice Jan was appointed to the Peshawar High Court in 1993 and
became Chief Justice of that Court. He
was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2004.
Lord Justice Maurice Kay
United Kingdom
Justice Maurice Kay has been Chairman of the Judicial Studies
Board of the United Kingdom since 2007.
He has led a series of seminars in the Royal Courts of Justice
for the senior judiciary and as a contributor to
JSB seminars
He became a professor of law at Keele University (UK) in 1973,
specialising in company law, business law
and European Community law. He had previously been a lecturer
at Hull and Manchester Universities. He
was called to the bar in 1975. He was appointed a Recorder in
1988, when he also took silk. He became a
Circuit Judge and in 1995 he was appointed a Justice of the High
Court. He was appointed as a Lord Justice
of Appeal in 2004. He has contributed to numerous legal books
and journals.
Justice Stephen Kelleher
Canada
Justice Stephen Kelleher is chair of the education committee of
the Supreme Court of British Columbia and
is active in judicial education through the National Judicial
Institute of Canada.
Justice Kelleher practised in the field of labour law from 1974
until 1980. He served as Vice-Chair and Chair
of the Labour Relations Board of British Columbia. From 1984 he
served as a mediator and arbitrator in
labour relations matters. Justice Kelleher became a judge of the
Supreme Court of British Columbia in 2003.
Justice Adèle Kent
Canada
Justice Adele Kent is a judicial associate of the National Judicial
Institute of Canada. She has lectured on
judicial ethics, class actions and health law.
Justice Kent practiced law in Canada in health law and construction
litigation. Justice Kent was appointed to
the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta in 1994. Since her
appointment, she has been a member of several
committees of the Court including the Media Relations Committee,
the Civil Procedure Committee and the
List Management Committee. She is a past member of the Public
Information Committee of the Canadian
Judicial Council. She is currently the co-chair of the Ethics
Advisory Committee for federally appointed
judges.
Justice Brian Lennox
Canada
Mr Brian Lennox was appointed Executive Director of the National
Judicial Institute in 2007. He has taught
and lectured in the areas of criminal law, advocacy and court
administration.
Justice Lennox was called to the bar in 1975 and practiced law
in the city of Ottawa. He was appointed an
Assistant Crown Attorney in 1978 and a judge of the Ontario Court
(Provincial Division) in 1986. He was
appointed a Regional Senior Judge in 1990 and Associate Chief
Judge in 1995. He was Chief Justice of the
Ontario Court of Justice from 1999 to 2007.
Dr Shlomo Levin
Israel
Dr. Shlomo Levin has been the elected president of the International
Organization for Judicial Training
(IOJT) since 2002. He is the director of the Sussmann Institute
for Advanced Judicial Studies in Israel.
Between 1957-1966 Dr Levin worked as an attorney at private law
firm in Tel Aviv. In 1966 was appointed
judge of the magistrate court and registrar of the District Court
of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. In 1980 was appointed
justice of the Supreme Court. And in 1995 as Deputy-President.
He retired from the bench in 2003. e Since
1958 he has taught legal subjects intermittently at the School
for Law and Economics at Tel Aviv University,
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the faculty of law at
the College of Administration in Rishon-le-
Zion. He teaches inter alia, civil procedure, the laws of bankruptcy,
the law of bills and cheques, the laws of
unjust enrichment and constitutional law. He has written books
and articles on various legal topics.
Ms Susan Lightstone
Canada
Ms Susan Lightstone is Education Director of the National Judicial
Institute (Canada). Since joining the NJI
in 2002, Ms Lightstone has prepared programming for a variety
of courts across Canada. In addition, she
serves as the editor-in-chief of the NJI’s library of Electronic
Bench Books. She serves as the Education
Director of the Ontario Court of Justice.
Ms Lightstone practised banking and corporate law at the Bank
of Canada from 1981 to 1986. From 1994 to
2001, she sat as a lawyer member of the Consent and Capacity Board,
a quasi-judicial tribunal created by the
provincial government of Ontario. Ms Lightstone began her freelance
writing career in 1978. Her work
appears in a wide array of publications, including the Canadian
Bar Association’s National, the Canadian
Medical Association Journal, The Globe and Mail and the Ottawa
Citizen. She has co-authored three best
selling books. She has also prepared educational materials on
a broad range of topics, including plain
language writing techniques for lawyers, limitation periods, and
the delivery of legal information to nonlawyers.
Justice Deborah McCawley
Canada
Justice Deborah McCawley was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1976
and practiced civil litigation. She was
Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Law Society of Manitoba
from 1981 to 1987 and Chief Executive
Officer from 1987 to 1999. From 1985 to 1988, she was a sessional
lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the
University of Manitoba, on the topic of ethics and professional
responsibility. Justice McCawley was
appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1988. In 1997 she was appointed
to the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench
(General Division) and in 2003 to the Court Martial Appeal Court.
She has chaired the Judicial Education
Committee of the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench.
Professor Kathleen Mahoney
Canada
Professor Kathleen Mahoney is the Canadian Director of a 5 year
project on judicial education in Vietnam.
Previously she has organized and participated in collaborative
human rights and judicial education projects
in Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Tanzania,
Namibia, Spain, Israel, China, Vietnam, the
United States, and the United Nations.
Professor Mahoney is a member of the Faculty of Law of the University
of Calgary (Canada). She has
published extensively and appeared as counsel in leading cases
in the Supreme Court of Canada. She was a
founder of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund. She was
recently named an expert advisor to the
Interaction Council, an organization of former heads of state
seeking to advance the cause of human rights in
the world.
Mr Waleed Malik
United States of America
Mr. Waleed Haider Malik is a Senior Public Sector Management Specialist
in the Public Sector Governance
Group of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World
Bank. He has over twenty years
experience in developing and transition countries. During the
last sixteen years he has been dealing with
judicial reform strategy development, justice modernization, judicial
training, financial management and tax
reform, investment climate and doing business reform, and youth
and community outreach. Mr. Malik has
worked on justice and public administration programs in Argentina,
Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bolivia, Croatia,
China, Chile, El Salvador, Egypt, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico,
Morocco, Poland, Panama, Russia, Spain,
Sri Lanka, Honduras, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Ukraine
and Venezuela.
Mr. Malik has published articles and books on judicial reform
and public sector governance, e-justice and
distance learning, judicial education, role of civil society and
indigenous peoples in institutional
development, civil service reform and organizational change, knowledge
sharing and capacity building,
socio-economic and cultural factors in governance reform, and
participatory methods of project evaluation
and development.
Justice Sheilah Martin
Canada
Justice Sheilah Martin was a law professor and Dean of the Faculty
of Law at the University of Calagry
(Canada) for many years. She has taught, spoken and written widely
in many areas and has worked
extensively in judicial education in Canada and abroad.
Justice Martin practised as a barrister and appeared before all
levels of court. She was appointed Queen's
Counsel in 1996. Justice Martin was appointed to the Court of
Queen’s Bench of Alberta in 2005.
Chief Justice Wayne Martin
Australia
Chief Justice Wayne Martin is chair of the Council of the National
Judicial College of Australia.
Chief Justice Martin was admitted to practice in Western Australia
in 1977. He worked as a solicitor in Perth
from 1984 – 88. He joined the Bar in 1988 and was appointed
a Queens Counsel 1993. He served as
President of the WA Bar Association from 1996 to 1999, Chairman
of Law Reform Commission of WA
from 1996 - 2001, President of the Law Society of WA in 2006 and
Director, Law Council of Australia in
2006. Chief Justice Martin was appointed to the Supreme Court
of Western Australia in 2006.
Minister Ives Gandra da Silva Martins
Brazil
Minister Ives Gandra da Silva Martins is Ministry of the High
Court of Labor, Member of the National
Council of Justice, Coordinator of the Post-Graduate Course in
Labor Law of the International Institute of
Social Sciences (IICS), Professor of Philosophy of Law of the
Brazilian Institute of Public Law (IDP), and
Member of the National Academy of Labor Law (ANDT) and of the
Academy of Magistrates of the State of
São Paulo (APM).
He was the first Director of the National School of Further Education
and Training of Labor Magistrates
(2006). He currently teaches Legal Deontology in this institution.
He was also Labor Sub Attorney General
(1988-1999), Special Advisor of the Civil House of the Brazilian
Presidency (1997-1999), and Advisor of
Minister Coqueijo Costa at TST (1983-1988). He has taught Labor
Law and Labor Procedural Law in the
course of Law at UnB (1984-1988) and Comparative Labor Law in
the post-graduate course at UniCEUB
(1990).
He has participated as lecturer in several congresses and has
received many medals, among them, the Labor
Judicial Merit Order, the Rio Branco Order, the Military Merit
Order and the Pacificator Medal.
Mr Robert McClelland
Australia
Mr Robert McClelland is the federal Attorney-General of Australia.
Mr McLelland was elected to federal
Parliament in 1996. Before becoming Attorney-General he served
on several parliamentary committees,
including as Deputy Chair of the House of Representatives Standing
Committee on Legal and Constitutional
Affairs. Before entering Parliament, Mr McLelland practised as
a lawyer for 14 years, specialising in
industrial and sports law. He holds a Master of Laws from Sydney
University.
Mr John Meeks
United States of America
Mr John Meeks is the Vice President of the Institute for Court
Management at the National Center for State
Courts. He was the Director of the Supreme Court of Ohio Judicial
College from 1996–2006. He has
conducted numerous presentations on effective management and leadership,
adult education, and curriculum
development. He is a past president of the National Association
of State Judicial Educators (August 2006–
August 2007). He has also served that organization as president-elect,
vice president, Midwest regional
director, chair of the education and bylaws committees, and a
member of several committees, including the
mentor committee.
A member of the Florida Bar, he practiced law in Florida from
1985 to 1989 and was a Senior Attorney at
the Supreme Court of Florida Office of the State Court Administrator
from 1989– 1996.
Ms Maryanne Mooney
Australia
Ms Mooney is a management consultant with expertise in leadership
and organisational development. She has a
Master’s degree in psychology and a Diploma in Education.
Ms Mooney designed a 360-degree feedback program
which assist judges in the process of developing insights and
their goals in a targeted way. The program has been used
successfully for judicial officers across Australia. Ms Mooney
is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants in
Australia, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the
Australian Human Resources Institute.”
Mr Richard Moss
New Zealand
Mr Richard Moss has been the Director of the Institute of Judicial
Studies of New Zealand since its
establishment in 1998. For the past 17 years he has been involved
in legal education and training in both
New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining the
Institute Mr Moss was National Director of the Institute of Professional
Legal Studies (1990 to 1996), an officer of the New Zealand Disputes
Tribunal (1990 to 1997) and a lecturer in the School of Training
for Trainers at Wellington College of Education (1987 to 1990).
Dr Oanh Ngo
Vietnam
Dr Oanh Ngo is an instructor at Judicial Academy of Vietnam, which
is the national body established to
provide education for judges, lawyers, prosecutors and others
in Vietnam.
Before becoming an instructor at Judicial Academy, Dr Ngo specialized
in civil law and practiced as a
lawyer in both civil and commercial areas. Dr Ngo qualified as
a lawyer in 1994 after graduating from
Moldova State University in 1994. Dr Ngo has participated in different
research studies into legal education
to improve legal education in Vietnam. At the Judicial Academy,
Dr Ngo has taken part in developing a new
curriculum and in improvements in the form and content of teaching.
Study of legal education in different
countries has been one of the interests Dr Ngo has been pursuing
for many years, having has strong interest
in using different interactive methods in judicial education.
Mr Milton Nuzum
United States of America
Mr Milt Nuzum is Director of the Judicial College of the Supreme
Court of Ohio. He also is an active
member of the National Association of State Judicial Educators.
Mr Nuzum was partner in the law firm in Ohio. He served 13 years
on the trial court bench as Judge of
Marietta Municipal Court. He was Chairman of the Court Technology
Committee of the Ohio Judicial
Conference and chairman of the Technology Standards Subcommittee
of the Advisory Committee on
Technology and the Courts of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He is
a member of the American Judges
Association and was an active member of its Board of Governors
and served several years as editor of
Benchmark, a quarterly publication of the AJA.
Judge Sandra Oxner
Canada
Judge Sandra Oxner is chairperson of the Commonwealth Judicial
Education Institute. She has spent 37
years working in judicial education and judicial reform both in
Canada and internationally
Judge Oxner is a retired judge of the Nova Scotia Provincial Court.
She has been President of the Canadian
Association of Provincial Court Judges, the Canadian Institute
for the Administration of Justice and the
Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association.
Since her retirement from the Bench, in addition to
volunteer judicial education work, she has worked as a judicial
reform consultant with the World Bank,
UNDP, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development
Bank, USAID and CIDA in over 40
jurisdictions throughout the world. She has written extensively
in the field.
Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer
Solomon Islands
Chief Justice Palmer has been Chief Justice of the High Court
of the Solomon Islands since 2003. He is a graduate in
Law and Economics from the University of Otago (New Zealand).
He worked as a lawyer in New Zealand before
being appointed as a magistrate in the Solomon Islands in 1986.
He was appointed as a judge of the High Court in
1992. Chief Justice Palmer was awarded a Knighthood in 2005.
Justice Eliezer Rivlin
Israel
Justice Eliezer Rivlin practiced law for eight years and then
was nominated to be a judge. Justice Rivlin was
nominated to the Supreme Court of Israel in 1999 and became the
Deputy President of the Supreme Court in
2006. Justice Rivlin is the author of a basic text books on damages,
legal articles and as a judge he has
written some of the most important decisions of the Supreme Court
of Israel in the areas of Tort law, Tax
law, Administrative and Constitutional law.
Justice Marc Rosenberg
Canada
Justice Marc Rosenberg is a Judicial Associate of the National
Judicial Institute (Canada). He is an
organizer and frequent speaker at education conferences throughout
Canada. He has spoken to judges,
educators and government officials in other countries, including
China, Vietnam, Israel, and Albania. He has
also assisted in curriculum development through contacts with
the judiciary and educators from other
countries when they have attended in Canada and through work overseas
in several countries including
Russia and Ukraine. He is a member of the Board of the Judicial
Studies Centre of the Americas.
Justice Marc Rosenberg was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1976
and practiced with until 1995 when he
joined the Ministry of the Attorney General. He served as a member
of the Canadian Bar Association
consultation group to the Law Reform Commission of Canada from
1982 to 1992. . He served as a Director
of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association from 1987 to 1991 and
was actively involved in the Association’s
educational programs for many years. In 1995, he was appointed
to the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
Judge Barbara Rothstein
United States of America
Judge Barbara J. Rothstein has been the Director of the Federal
Judicial Center in Washington D.C. since
2003. The Center is the research and education agency of the federal
judicial system. It produces educational
programs and resources for judges and for nonjudicial court personnel.
Its products include travel-based and
in-court programs that participants attend in person, Web-based
programs and publications, television
programs broadcast by satellite, and manuals, monographs, and
other print publications.
Judge Rothstein served as a King County Superior Court judge for
the State of Washington before her
appointment to the federal bench in 1980. Before that she practiced
law with a private firm in
Massachusetts, and with the Consumer Protection and Antitrust
Division of the State of Washington’s
Attorney General’s office. She is a frequent lecturer and
is a member of the American Law Institute. . She
is a Commissioner on the American Judicature Society’s Commission
on Forensic Science and Public Policy
as well as a member of the Physicians and Lawyers for National
Drug Policy Justice Education Advisory
Committee. She has also served on the Board of EINSHAC, an educational
affiliate of the Human Genome
Project dedicated to instructing judges on scientific issues connected
with the role of genetics in litigation.
Judge Maria Filomena Singh
Philippines
Judge Maria Filomena D. Singh is a member of the Board of Trustees
of the Philippine Judicial Academy as
representative of all First Level Courts in her country. The Judicial
Academy is the training institute for all
justices, judges and court personnel in the Philippines. As a
Member of the Corps of Professors of the
Judicial Academy she lectures on court management, judicial skills,
judicial ethics and conduct, Filipino
culture and the behaviour of the judge, and civil and criminal
summary procedure. Judge Singh plays an
active part in the training of newly appointed judges and court
personnel through the Judicial Academy’s
core programs.
Judge Singh is the Presiding Judge of Branch 85 of the Regional
Trial Court of Quezon City in the
Philippines’ National Capital Judicial Region. She was appointed
to this position in 2007 after serving as a
Metropolitan Trial Court Judge from November 2002. Before joining
the judiciary, Judge Singh practiced
law for 10 years with law firms in Manila, focusing on trial law
and procedure and intellectual property
rights. She is also a member of the Faculty of her alma mater,
the Ateneo de Manila University School of
Law. Judge Singh is now enrolled at the Washington College of
Law at the American University in
Washington, DC, as a Hubert Humphrey Fellow under the Fulbright
Program working on a Program of
Action on Court Management.
Chief Justice James Spigelman
Australia
Chief Justice James Spigelman is Chief Justice of the State of
New South Wales (Australia). He is President
of the Judicial Commission of New South Wales. The Commission
responsible for the training of the
judiciary in the State of New South Wales.
Chief Justice James Spigelman was principal private secretary
to the Prime Minister of Australia in 1972-75,
then Secretary for the Department of Media 1975-1976. He was called
to the Bar in 1976 and was a member
of the Australian Law Reform Commission 1976-1979. He was appointed
Queens Counsel in 1986 and
appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
in 1998.
Judge Tan Siong Thye
Singapore
Judge Tan Siong Thye is presently the Senior District Judge of
Singapore, overseeing the Subordinate Courts
in which more than 95% of cases in Singapore are dealt with. He
has introduced numerous reforms and
initiatives to improve the Administration of Justice and the services
to court users. In addition to his
administrative duties he presides over various types of cases.
Judge Thye has been in the Singapore Legal Service for more than
20 years. In the course of his legal service
career he has been posted to the Attorney-General's Chambers,
the Subordinate Courts and the Commercial
Affairs Department, Singapore’s white collar crime enforcement
agency. He is a member of the Military
Court of Appeal.
Mr George Thomson
Canada
Mr George Thomson is a member of the Executive of the International
Organization for Judicial Training
(IOJT). He is currently the Senior Director, International, at
the National Judicial Institute of Canada. In that
capacity he has been involved in a number of international justice
reform projects with the Supreme Court of
the Philippines and the Philippines Judicial Academy, the Chinese
Supreme Peoples Court, the Russian
Judicial Academy and the Ukraine Judicial Academy, among others.
He is a member of the Board of the
Justice Studies Center of the Americas in Santiago, Chile. He
was Executive Director of the National
Judicial Institute from 2000 to 2007. In that capacity he was
responsible for the development and delivery of
many of the Institute’s innovative judicial education programs.
Prior to his appointment to the NJI, Mr Thomson had experience
as a judge, a law professor and Deputy
Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney-General of Canada.
Judge Jean-François Thony
France
Judge Jean-François Thony was appointed the Director of
the National School for the Judiciary in 2007.
Judge Thony began his career in the French Judiciary as Examining
Judge (juge d’instruction), Deputy
Prosecutor (substitut du procureur), and Chief Prosecutor (procureur
de la République). He joined the
United Nations International Drug Control Programme in 1991 as
Senior Legal Adviser and later became
Programme Manager of the UN Global Program against Money Laundering.
In 2000 he was appointed as
Judge, Court of Appeal of Versailles (France).
He joined the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) in 2002 as Assistant General
Counsel and Head of the Financial Integrity Group, with the responsibility
of overseeing and coordinating all
anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism
(AML/CFT) activities of the IMF. He has
published several studies and research papers on the issues of
money laundering and terrorism financing.
Deputy Secretary General and Treasurer of the International Association
of Penal Law, Jean-François Thony
is also the Vice-President of the International Institute of Higher
Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC,
Syracusa, Italy).
Dr Birgit Tschütscher
Austria
Dr Birgit Tschütscher was appointed as the head of the training
department within the Federal Ministry of
Justice in Austria in 2008. Education and training of judges and
prosecutors was one of her main interests
from the beginning of her career. She has organized training on
a national and international level. She also
organized programs on initial training for judges and prosecutors
on human rights and the history of justice.
Previously Dr Tschütscher was Deputy Head of the cabinet
of the Federal Minister of Justice. She was
responsible for personnel, civil law, international law and training
and education of judges, prosecutors and
the judiciary. Before joining the cabinet she was head of the
justice department of the Permanent
Representation of Austria to the European Union. From 1990 to
2000 she worked as a judge in a district
court in Vienna in civil law matters.
Ms Iryna Voytyuk
Ukraine
Ms Iryna Voytyuk has been the President of the Academy of Judges
of Ukraine since 2004. The Academy is
the national body established to provide judicial education for
judges of Ukraine. Ms Voytyuk has built-up
the judicial training institution, developed its strategy, participates
in secondary legislation development and
has been involved in international cooperation in the field of
judicial training.
Ms Voytyuk qualified as a lawyer in 1982. Prior to this appointment
to the Acaemy, Ms Voytyuk worked in
Lviv Commercial Academy as Head of civil law and civil procedure
department, Associate professor and
Senior lecturer at the law department. She is a member of National
Commission for Strengthening
Democracy and the Rule of Law, a Member of Board of State Court
Administration, Chair of the Bureau of
Lisbon Network (Council of Europe), and a Governor of the Board
of International Organization of Judicial
Training.
Chief Judge Clifford Wallace
United States of America
Judge Clifford Wallace is a member of the Executive Committee
of the International Organization for
Judicial Training. He lectures and teaches courses in judicial
administration in the United States and
internationally. Since 1972 he has worked directly with judiciaries
in over 50 countries. His work in other
countries includes developing judicial needs assessments and assisting
in the implementation of programs to
meet those needs.
Judge Wallace began legal practice in 1955 with a law firm in
San Diego, California where he specialized in
the trial of civil matters. He was sworn in as a United States
District Judge for the Southern District of
California in 1970. He was elevated to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1972. He
chaired of the Conference of Chief Circuit Judges and co-chaired
the California State-Federal Judicial
Council. He was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United
States Committee on International
Judicial Relations, the Board of the Federal Judicial Center and
the Institute of Judicial Administration. He
was Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit from 1991 until 1996. He
took senior status in 1996. he is the author of
42 professional articles; listed in several publications, including
“Who’s Who in America.” He is Senior
Advisor (Legal Systems and Judicial Administration) to The Asia
Foundation and conceptualized the
Conference of Justices of Asia and the Pacific.
Chief Justice Marilyn Warren
Australia
Chief Justice Marilyn Warren is Chair of the Board of the Judicial
College of Victoria. The College is
responsible for the training of the judiciary in the State of
Victoria and conducts workshops, seminars, visits
and field trips.
Chief Justice Warren commenced her legal career in the Victorian
Public Service and was admitted to
practice in 1975. She was later appointed an assistant chief parliamentary
counsel. From 1985 she practised
as a barrister, predominantly in the areas of administrative law,
commercial law and town planning. In 1997
she was appointed Queen’s Counsel. In 1998 she was appointed
to the Supreme Court of Victoria and
presided in all jurisdictions. She was appointed as Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2003.
Justice Zhang Wei
China
Since 2006 Justice Zhang Wei has been working as vice president
of National Judges College, in charge of
training and e-learning of judges and law school education.
From 1982 to 1993 Justice Zhang Wei worked successively as clerk,
judge and later the assistant to former
Chief Justice Jiang Hua in Supreme People’s Court of China.
From 1993 to 1996 he served as associate
administrator of Lingling District, Hunan province. He was promoted
to work as deputy mayor in Yongzhou
City, Hunan province. He was called back to Supreme People’s
Court for two years service with General
Office of the court. Since 2006, Justice Zhang Wei has been working
as vice president of National Judges
College.
Justice Christine Wheeler
Australia
Justice Christine Wheeler is President of the Australasian Institute
of Judicial Administration which has the
objectives of research into judicial administration, the development
and conduct of educational programs for
judicial officers, court administrators and members of the legal
profession in relation to court administration
and judicial systems.
Justice Wheeler was admitted to practice as a lawyer in 1980.
As Assistant Crown Solicitor from 1984-1988
she headed the Policy and Law Reform Unit. From 1988 to 1994 she
held the positions of Senior Assistant
Crown Solicitor and Senior Assistant Crown Counsel. From May 1994
she practised at the Bar, principally
in the areas of constitutional and administrative law. In 1994
she became the first woman in Western
Australia to be appointed Queen's Counsel. She was appointed to
the Supreme Court in 1996 and to the
Court of Appeal in 2005.
Ms Ruth Windeler
Australia
Ms Ruth Windeler is the Education Director of the Judicial Commission
of New South Wales. The
Commission is responsible for the training of the judiciary in
the State of New South Wales. She is
responsible for the Commission’s judicial education programs,
including conferences, seminars and
publications. She has been instrumental in guiding the shift in
New South Wales to educational sessions
which use active learning methods relevant to tasks judges and
magistrates perform in court.
Prior to joining the Commission in 1996 had been Director of the
Canadian Advocates Society Institute; Coordinator
and Instructional Design Administrator for the Institute of Professional
Legal Studies in New
Zealand; Director of Standards and Development for the Law Society
of Hong Kong; Secretary to the
Advocacy Institute of Hong Kong; and Head of the Department of
Continuing Medical Education and Recertification
for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
Judge Thomas Zachman
United States of America
Judge Thomas F. Zachman lectures and writes on court technology
matters. He was a judge for the Brown
County Court and the Brown County Municipal Court in Ohio for
seventeen years. He was a member of the
Supreme Court of Ohio Advisory Committee on Technology and the
Courts, and previously chaired the
Infrastructure and Interoperability Subcommittee tasked with creating
protocols for the future Ohio Courts
Network. He co-chairs the Ohio Judicial College New Judge Mentor
Project. He served as the Co-Chair of
the Electronic Signatures Project of the Ohio Judicial Conference
Court Technology Committee. Judge
Zachman’s has published articles on judicial administration
and court technology.
Judge Ralph Zulman
South Africa
Judge Ralph Zulman was a judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa
until he recently retired. As a judge for close on
20 years, the latter half in the Supreme Court's Appellate Division,
he was actively involved in judicial education. He was
specifically seconded by the Chief Justice of South Africa to
arrange courses and to participate in the training of South
African judges and magistrates in connection with the then newly
enacted Promotion of Equality and the Prevention of
Unfair Discrimination Act. Judge Zulman also participated in the
training of judges in Swaziland at the request of the
International Bar Association. He chaired numerous boards, committees
and organizations relating to judicial issues and
is presently a member of the International Insolvency Institute
and the Annual Survey of South African Law. He is a
n Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (London)
and the Arbitration Association of South Africa.
