CSEW: June 1994

Federal Judicial Center

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Since its creation by Congress in 1967, the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) has functioned as a research and education agency for the federal court system in the U. S. The Interjudicial Affairs Office of the FJC provides services for foreign judges, lawyer s and other legal professionals. Since 1991, this office has helped to bring foreign judges and legal scholars to the US to study the American legal system. The Visiting Foreign Judicial Fellows Program introduces visiting Fellows to judges, court admini strators and relevant agencies in support of specific research projects.

In recent years, the FJC has administered a number of seminars on the American legal system for judges and legal officials in the NIS. For these seminars it has prepared short briefing papers, translated into Russian, on topics such as:

The Independent Judiciary
Due Process of Law
Reviewing Administrative Decisions
The Adversary System and Trial by Jury
Judicial Education and Court Personnel Training
Evidence
Making an Arrest
Safeguards in Obtaining and Using Physical Evidence

Domestically, the FJC plays an important role in the continuing education of judges, court employees and other Judicial Branch employees. It also publishes a wide range of research and educational materials.

For more information, contact:

Federal Judicial Center
Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building
One Columbus Circle, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: (202) 273-4161
Fax: (202) 273-4019

This article is from the June 1994 issue of
Civil Society ... East and West

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