The Center for Judicial Ethics
CourtClass Tutorials
Watch the latest Center for Judicial Ethics CourtClass tutorial on the law and practice of conducting ability to pay hearings in connection with court-ordered financial obligations available below. In approximately 35 minutes, the online presentation covers the essential constitutional, ethical, and practical aspects of such hearings.
CourtClass: Ability to Pay Hearings - A Primer for Judicial Officers
CourtClass: Ability to Pay Hearings - Accompanying Materials
CourtClass - Ex Parte Communications
CourtClass: Ex Parte Communications - Accompanying Materials
CourtClass - Marches and Demonstrations: Judges and Courts Staff
CourtClass: Judicial Participation in Marches - Accompanying Materials
Most Requested CJE Resources
When confidentiality ceases in judicial discipline proceedings
Composition of state judicial conduct commissions
Available sanctions in judicial discipline proceedings
Social media and judicial ethics: Part 1
Social media and judicial ethics: Part 2
Social media and judicial ethics update
Updated January 2021
Judicial disqualification based on campaign contributions
Updated November 2016
Case-law following Republican Party of Minnesota v. White
Updated July 2018
Self-represented litigants and the code of judicial conduct Up-dated May 2019
Other Resources
Clicking "Send": Possible Consequences of Judicial E-mails by Keith R. Fisher
Searches of Electronic Devices: Recent Developments and Judges' Ethical Responsibilities by Keith R. Fisher
New ABA Ethics Opinion Explores the Prohibition on Independent Fact Research by Judges by Keith R. Fisher
Trends: Close Up - The Ethics of Search Engines and Judging
So You're Going to be a Judge: Ethical Issues for New Judges by Cindy Gray, Court Review, Volume 52, issue 2
Ethical Judicial Culture by Cynthia Gray, Court Review, Volume 56, issues 3-4
Relationship Advice by Cynthia Gray, Court Review, Volume 56, issue 2
Helping Judges Look Before They Leap: Judicial Ethics Advisory Committees by Cynthia Gray, Court Review, Volume 54, issue 4
Appropriate Action by Cynthia Gray, Court Review, Volume 54, issue 2
Links to Other Organizations
State judicial conduct organizations
Judicial ethics advisory committees
American Bar Association Model Code of Judicial Conduct
United States Courts Ethics Policies