NCJ Number
80663
Journal
Justice System Journal Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Dated: (Summer 1981) Pages: 162-217
Editor(s)
R Wheeler
Date Published
1981
Length
56 pages
Annotation
This series of articles portraying and analyzing the work of the Institute for Court Management (ICM) focuses particularly on formal education in the management of the courts.
Abstract
Chief Justice Burger recounts the reasons and events that spurred ICM's creation, in which he was instrumental. ICM's executive director ruminates about the Institute and court management generally, both retrospectively and prospectively. Another article analyzes changes in the curriculum and graduates of ICM's Court Executive Development Program. Some of ICM's accomplishments are described. The description of the demographic homogeneity of the Program's participants mirrors a condition throughout the court management field. It is stated the ICM has sought, among other things, to sharpen the perspectives of those involved in court management -- judges, managers, and other -- and to help them realize they have common concerns. Another paper considers how the various court management actors view their court environment. It is advised that systemic conditions in the courts and the behavior they promote will not be altered without insight regarding how the various court management actors view these conditions and behaviors. Two other articles deal in part with varying perspectives of court administration structures and procedures. They show how the consolidation of lower State trial courts in Oregon was perceived differently by process participants. Also examined are why State-Federal judicial councils achieve vitality in some States but not in others. Footnotes and references accompany each article. For individual entries, see NCJ 80664-70. (Editor summary modified)