Judges and Judiciary
Mar. 5, 2024
How do judges learn how to be fair? CJER!
CJER can react swiftly to educational needs changes prompted by the law, society, or the work of the courts, and is considered the be a nationwide leader in judicial education.
Benjamin G. Shatz
Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Appellate Law (Certified), Litigation
Email: bshatz@manatt.com
Benjamin is a certified specialist in appellate law who co-chairs the Appellate Practice Group at Manatt in the firm's Los Angeles office. Exceptionally Appealing appears the first Tuesday of the month.
Karene I. Alvarado
Alvarado is the director of the Center for Judicial Education and Research
In other countries, students can go to law school to become lawyers, or they can take a separate educational track and go to judge school to become judges. This strikes our ears as odd because in our common law tradition, judges are not created separately from lawyers, but actually are lawyers chosen to transition orthogonally from the advocates’ side to the neutral side of the bench. Indeed, in California, the minimum requirement to be a judge is to have been a lawye...
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