Founding director of the Centre for Judicial Studies

AUSTRALIA

Roundtable 13:
Judicial training and crisis recovery
Presentation of PhD Thesis :
"Reforming Justice and judicial training : The findings of recent research"

Dr Livingston Armytage is a pioneer of judicial education, and the founding director of the Centre for Judicial Studies www.educatingjudges.com,  which is internationally recognised as a specialist in judicial and legal reform.

He is author of Educating Judges: Towards a New Model of Judicial Learning, published by Kluwer Law (The Hague/Boston 1996), which is the seminal monograph in the field of judicial education. 

Over almost forty years, Dr Armytage has advised many governments, courts and international development agencies on improving justice systems in more than thirty countries around the world.  He has held senior positions as project director, senior counsel and team leader on major projects for the World Bank, United Nations, Asian Development Bank and USAID in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan. Cambodia, Fiji, Haiti, Kenya, Maldives, Mongolia, Pacific Islands, Pakistan, Palestine, PNG, Samoa and Vietnam.  Building on this experience, he edited Searching for Success in Judicial Reform: Voices from Asia Pacific, published by Oxford University Press in 2009.

In his latest book on Reforming Justice: the path to fairness in Asia, he presents the findings of doctoral research on the global experience in legal and judicial reform. This research is being published by Cambridge University Press in early 2012.

Dr Armytage is making two presentations at the 5th IOJT Conference in Bordeaux:

• In the first on ‘‘Reforming Justice and Judicial Training’, he will present the findings of his recent research on the global reform endeavours which calls for a re-think on the strategic role of judicial training in judicial reform (Wednesday, 2 November at 3.45pm)
  
  
• In the second, he will also present ‘A model approach to establishing a judicial training academy’, based on recent experience in Azerbaijan (in Roundtable 13: on Wednesday, 2 November at 2pm).

Dr Armytage is also member of the editorial board of Journal of the International Organisation for Judicial Training. (IOJT).