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The American Judicature Society .
This site contains information on judicial conduct and evaluation. The Judicial Conduct Reporter Index site includes such topics as advisory opinions, complaint disposition survey, new codes of judicial conduct, and information on judicial sanctions.
Rottman, David, et al.
Judicial Performance Evaluation (Table 10).
State Court Organization 2004. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (2006).
The table includes information on the Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission of the fifty states in 2004.
Durham, Christine M.
Gender and Professional Identity: Unexplored Issues in Judicial Performance Evaluation.
The Judges` Journal 39, no. 2: 11 (Spring 2000).
This article addresses gender bias when conducting JPEs. According to the author, "about one-third of the women judges surveyed by the Colorado Supreme Court Task Force on Gender Bias in the Courts reported receiving less respect than male judges from lawyer and/or other judges." The author believes that this bias impacts the judicial performance evaluations conducted upon female judges. (KF200 .A456)
Esterling, Kevin M., and Kate Sampson.
Judicial Retention Evaluation Programs in Four States: A Report with Recommendations.
Chicago: American Judicature Society (1998).
Only the first few pages of this study are relevant to the topic of JPEs. Page xiv contains a detailed description on how JPEs work.
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Kourlis, Rebecca Love et al.
Shared Expectations: Judicial Accountability in Context.
Denver: Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (2006).
Covers reasons, goals, and evaluates best approaches to JPE, while outlining history and practices in several states. Appendices in the full report include model surveys for attorneys, jurors, and litigants; overview of JPE programs; requirements by state; and model self-assessments.
Transparent Courthouse: A Blueprint for Judicial Performance Evaluation.
University of Denver, Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (2006).
This resource can be used to help courts design a program to improve accountability through judicial performance evaluation. The book includes basic tenets and values inherent in such programs, a checklist to guide those starting program, benchmarks, sample statutes and court orders, and model surveys.
Black Letter Guidelines for the Evaluation of Judicial Performance. .
American Bar Association (February 2005).
The document provides a list of categories that should be investigated when evaluating the performance of judges: goals of the program, uses of the program, dissemination of the data from the evaluations, administration and support, criteria of the evaluation, and methodology.
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