Real World Judicial Ethics

A CJER Online Course (One hour of Ethics Elective Credit)

Judicial Ethics involves much more than knowing the difference between right and wrong or even all the applicable rules. In this course, you will be given the opportunity to apply judicial ethics in real-world situations. This program is not designed to provide the definitive answer to every situation presented. In many situations, there are no definitive answers. Our goal is to help you spot issues and know where to go to resolve them, e.g., the California Code of Judicial Ethics, the CJA Ethics Hotline, and the Code of Civil Procedure.

In this course, you will play Judge Kim Henderson, who is the Supervising Judge of a branch court in a medium-sized metropolitan area. Your job during the course will be to spot ethical issues you and your judicial colleagues will be facing and to make appropriate decisions. Many of the situations presented are taken from recent events. This course will provide feedback throughout and provide links to applicable authority for you to read if you have questions. These quizzes are for your own practice only; no record is made of any of your responses.

When you finish, you need to complete and submit the evaluation at the end of the course. After CJER has received the completed evaluation, your name will be entered in our Qualifying Ethics database, certifying that you’ve completed one hour of ethics elective credit. You can also print out a certificate of completion for your own records.

The tabs above will be available to you throughout the program. Just click on them whenever you’d like more information. You can also review the “how to use” tab if you have any questions.

Good luck dealing with these issues—your colleagues are counting on you!