Benefits to participants:

• Provides access to cutting-edge knowledge from a diverse faculty
  
  
• Improves legal critical/analytical skills
  
  
• Sharpens writing skills and improves opinion writing
  
  
• Contributes to the growing judicial studies knowledge pool
  
  
• Helps recharge judicial batteries

Additional Benefits
Further, the JS program is a challenging, stimulating academic degree program designed to:

• Provide a structured, interdisciplinary academic curriculum applicable to your judicial needs
  
  
• Encourage you to take an active role in teaching, planning, and administering judicial education
  
  
• Provide experience (by virtue of the JS thesis and dissertation requirements) for you in conducting and publishing   research of interest and applicability to the judicial system
  
  
• Provide an academic degree program having national scope and impact.