P 467 Jan. 6-8, 2012 Development of Model National Judicial Education Curriculum: Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Gender Justice, Juvenile Justice and Environmental Justice

The need for a new approach to goals, scope and content of judicial education has been the subject matter of extensive deliberations at the regular National Conferences of State Judicial Academies at NJA. New ideas have emerged from these discussions, some of which are being implemented. An important challenge in this regard is to identify the common core content of minimum legal knowledge, skills, qualities and attitudes that every Indian judge should be expected mandatorily to possess. The State Judicial Academies should then have a core curriculum – targeted at different types of judicial functions – for the training of judges that will ensure that this core minimum knowledge, skills, attitudes and qualities will be imparted. The purpose of this bi-monthly meeting of State Judicial Academies will be to discuss and develop the proposed core content and core curricula for imparting the core content of judicial education.