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Projects
and Initiatives
Best
Practices Institute
The Best Practices
Institute identifies and promotes practices that enhance the effective
administration of justice. The Institute was conceived by the Boards
of the Conference of Chief Justices, the Conference of State Court
Administrators, and the National Center for State Courts following the
1999 National Conference on Public Trust and Confidence in the Justice
System. During the
Conference, participants repeatedly voiced the need for a national
effort to identify and champion best practices from across the country
as part of a broad strategy to improve court performance and better
serve the public.
Civil
Justice Reform Initiative
More
than 15 million civil cases are processed annually through the state
courts.
In 2000, The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) launched
a major reform initiative to actively improve America’s civil
justice system.
The Civil Justice Reform Initiative (CJRI), like many of the NCSC’s
strategic objectives, developed out of the National Action
Plan adopted at the landmark National Conference on Public Trust and
Confidence in the Justice System held in Washington, DC in 1999.
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Communities
of Practice
At the National Center for State Courts, Cross-divisional Communities of Practice develop formal processes for discussing problems, devising solutions, and building a common store of knowledge. The Communities of Practice build upon the National Center’s strengths—knowledge and expertise in the state courts—and help us retain common knowledge, share ideas, and build and disseminate new knowledge.
Through the work of the Communities of Practice, the National Center staff will develop products, programs, and services to provide relevant information and assistance to our constituents.
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Public
Trust and Confidence
The
PT&C Forum offers information and assistance to help improve
public trust and confidence in our justice system.
The site includes descriptions of programs and activities
underway across the country to improve public trust.
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Science,
Technology and the Law
The
increase in state court cases involving scientific and technical
issues is hard to miss. The National Center for State Courts,
consistent with its mission to be of service to the nation’s state
courts, is pleased to present this online listing of resources on
science, technology and law for judges, law clerks and others.
The National Center's ST&L Resource Center,
which is
located in the CourTopic database (move your mouse over Scientific Facts and the
Law and you will be given several choices of topic areas).
These resources will
provide a working tool to assist judges, law clerks, and court staff
in addressing state-of-the art science and technology issues
reflected in the cases on their dockets. This
offering will grow over time as additional existing resources are
identified and added and in light of developments in this dynamic,
important category of courts’ workloads—the intersections of
law, science and technology.
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