Events

Upcoming Events

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact Justin Tri Do at jtrido@law.berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7 business days in advance of the event.

Cultivating Healing and Health in the Judiciary

Friday
February 14, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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EXCLUSIVELY TO JUDGES

Session 1: What brings us here?
Location: Zoom
Speaker(s): Michele Statz, University of Minnesota Medical School

This five-part virtual series recognizes this impossible context and the unique vulnerabilities that many judges carry, however privately. Premised on a model of mutual accompaniment, it honors judges’ wounds and weariness not as a liability but as a shared reference point from which to come together as judges, to learn, and to heal [SESSION 1, February 14]. It exposes judges to practices and paradigms [SESSIONS
2, 3, 4 February 28, March 14 and 28] that represent different ways of being a judge (versus judging). And throughout, it seeks to build a community that finds new experiences of justice in the midst of relationship [SESSION 5, April 11].

All judges, at all levels, are welcome to register; we ask that judges plan to participate in all five 75 minute sessions. After each session, participants can anticipate reading materials for the next session and a Google document with some questions.

Please let us know your interest in participating by registering by December 13, 2024. (Earlier applications encouraged!)

Cultivating Healing and Health in the Judiciary

Friday
February 28, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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EXCLUSIVELY TO JUDGES

Session 2: Judging as Healing and Restoration
Location: Zoom
Speaker(s): Michele Statz, University of Minnesota Medical School; Hon. Megan Treuer, Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe; Hon. Korey Wahwasuck, Itasca County, MN

This five-part virtual series recognizes this impossible context and the unique vulnerabilities that many judges carry, however privately. Premised on a model of mutual accompaniment, it honors judges’ wounds and weariness not as a liability but as a shared reference point from which to come together as judges, to learn, and to heal [SESSION 1, February 14]. It exposes judges to practices and paradigms [SESSIONS
2, 3, 4 February 28, March 14 and 28] that represent different ways of being a judge (versus judging). And throughout, it seeks to build a community that finds new experiences of justice in the midst of relationship [SESSION 5, April 11].

All judges, at all levels, are welcome to register; we ask that judges plan to participate in all five 75 minute sessions. After each session, participants can anticipate reading materials for the next session and a Google document with some questions.

Please let us know your interest in participating by registering by December 13, 2024. (Earlier applications encouraged!)

AALJ 2025 Symposium

Tuesday
March 4, 2025

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Location: In-Person, Booth Auditorium 

AALJ 2025 Symposium: Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State. Tuesday, March 4th, 9am in Booth Auditorium.

 

Judges Talking

Friday
March 7, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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EXCLUSIVELY TO JUDGES

Location: Zoom
With Denise Neary & Michele Statz

Imagine what good things could happen if more judges just talked to each other? 
 
Please join Berkeley Judicial Institute, Denise Neary, and Michele Statz for an informal, freewheeling discussion for judges about all things judging.

Cultivating Healing and Health in the Judiciary

Friday
March 14, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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EXCLUSIVELY TO JUDGES

Session 3: Judging and (or in) Joy
Location: Zoom
Speaker(s): Michele Statz, University of Minnesota Medical School; Victor Quintanilla, Indiana University Bloomington, Maurer School of Law

This five-part virtual series recognizes this impossible context and the unique vulnerabilities that many judges carry, however privately. Premised on a model of mutual accompaniment, it honors judges’ wounds and weariness not as a liability but as a shared reference point from which to come together as judges, to learn, and to heal [SESSION 1, February 14]. It exposes judges to practices and paradigms [SESSIONS
2, 3, 4 February 28, March 14 and 28] that represent different ways of being a judge (versus judging). And throughout, it seeks to build a community that finds new experiences of justice in the midst of relationship [SESSION 5, April 11].

All judges, at all levels, are welcome to register; we ask that judges plan to participate in all five 75 minute sessions. After each session, participants can anticipate reading materials for the next session and a Google document with some questions.

Please let us know your interest in participating by registering by December 13, 2024. (Earlier applications encouraged!)

2024 – 2025 Law & Literature

Friday
March 21, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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Session 5: Walter Van Tilburg Clark | The Ox-Bow Incident
Location: Zoom
Speaker(s): Dr. Julie Empric, Eckerd College

Using great works as text, these programs provide participants the opportunity to reflect on how literature provides insight into contemporary issues. All are welcome to register to participate; we ask those participating to be prepared to discuss the readings during out time together.

Cultivating Healing and Health in the Judiciary

Friday
March 28, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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EXCLUSIVELY TO JUDGES

Session 4: How we learn: values and judging
Location: Zoom
Speaker(s): Michele Statz, University of Minnesota Medical School; Wiremu Doherty, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi

This five-part virtual series recognizes this impossible context and the unique vulnerabilities that many judges carry, however privately. Premised on a model of mutual accompaniment, it honors judges’ wounds and weariness not as a liability but as a shared reference point from which to come together as judges, to learn, and to heal [SESSION 1, February 14]. It exposes judges to practices and paradigms [SESSIONS
2, 3, 4 February 28, March 14 and 28] that represent different ways of being a judge (versus judging). And throughout, it seeks to build a community that finds new experiences of justice in the midst of relationship [SESSION 5, April 11].

All judges, at all levels, are welcome to register; we ask that judges plan to participate in all five 75 minute sessions. After each session, participants can anticipate reading materials for the next session and a Google document with some questions.

Please let us know your interest in participating by registering by December 13, 2024. (Earlier applications encouraged!)

Cultivating Healing and Health in the Judiciary

Friday
April 11, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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EXCLUSIVELY TO JUDGES

Session 5: Concluding Conversations
Location: Zoom
Speaker(s): Michele Statz, University of Minnesota Medical School

This five-part virtual series recognizes this impossible context and the unique vulnerabilities that many judges carry, however privately. Premised on a model of mutual accompaniment, it honors judges’ wounds and weariness not as a liability but as a shared reference point from which to come together as judges, to learn, and to heal [SESSION 1, February 14]. It exposes judges to practices and paradigms [SESSIONS
2, 3, 4 February 28, March 14 and 28] that represent different ways of being a judge (versus judging). And throughout, it seeks to build a community that finds new experiences of justice in the midst of relationship [SESSION 5, April 11].

All judges, at all levels, are welcome to register; we ask that judges plan to participate in all five 75 minute sessions. After each session, participants can anticipate reading materials for the next session and a Google document with some questions.

Please let us know your interest in participating by registering by December 13, 2024. (Earlier applications encouraged!)

Judges Talking

Friday
May 2, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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EXCLUSIVELY TO JUDGES

Location: Zoom
With Denise Neary & Michele Statz

Imagine what good things could happen if more judges just talked to each other? 
 
Please join Berkeley Judicial Institute, Denise Neary, and Michele Statz for an informal, freewheeling discussion for judges about all things judging.

Chambers’ Culture: Civility Not Sterility

Friday
May 23, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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EXCLUSIVELY TO JUDGES
Location: Zoom
Speaker(s): Judge Thomas Hardiman, Jonathan Segal

Judges, please join Berkeley Judicial Institute, Judge Thomas Hardiman and Jonathan Segal on May 23, at noon Pacific, for a judges-only conversation about establishing and maintaining a civil chambers culture.

It is important that individuals in chambers, starting with the judge, interact with one another with respect, dignity and civility.  This includes avoiding harassing, retaliatory, abusive and other inappropriate conduct.

At the same time, chambers’ relationships are not solely professional.  They often have a personal dimension, too.  Indeed, some judges refer to their clerks and assistants as part of their “judicial family.”

Using scenarios to guide the conversation, this program will consider:

  • navigating interpersonal issues with clerks and other chambers staff
  • understanding the power differential that undergirds the judge/clerk relationship
  • maintaining collaboration, collegiality and mentorship.

The program will NOT be recorded.

 

Judge Lindsey in chambers, Juvenile Court, Denver, Colo. Mile High Photo Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Divisionhttps://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c37719/

2024 – 2025 Law & Literature

Friday
May 30, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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Session 6: Shakespeare | Macbeth
Location: Zoom
Speaker(s): Dr. Julie Empric, Eckerd College

Using great works as text, these programs provide participants the opportunity to reflect on how literature provides insight into contemporary issues. All are welcome to register to participate; we ask those participating to be prepared to discuss the readings during out time together.

Judges Talking

Friday
July 11, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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EXCLUSIVELY TO JUDGES

Location: Zoom
With Denise Neary & Michele Statz

Imagine what good things could happen if more judges just talked to each other? 
 
Please join Berkeley Judicial Institute, Denise Neary, and Michele Statz for an informal, freewheeling discussion for judges about all things judging.

Judges Talking

Friday
September 12, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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EXCLUSIVELY TO JUDGES

Location: Zoom
With Denise Neary & Michele Statz

Imagine what good things could happen if more judges just talked to each other? 
 
Please join Berkeley Judicial Institute, Denise Neary, and Michele Statz for an informal, freewheeling discussion for judges about all things judging.

Judges Talking

Friday
November 7, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

registration open button

EXCLUSIVELY TO JUDGES

Location: Zoom
With Denise Neary & Michele Statz

Imagine what good things could happen if more judges just talked to each other? 
 
Please join Berkeley Judicial Institute, Denise Neary, and Michele Statz for an informal, freewheeling discussion for judges about all things judging.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact Justin Tri Do at jtrido@law.berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7 business days in advance of the event.

 

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