50 countries. We often use judges from various countries as our trainers. It occurs to me that it would be productive to explore an informal relationship as I would love to have IAJ-UIM members participate in our programs. Judge-to-judge training has been very effective and also rewarding from the judges’ perspective. That is a point of discussion down the line.

Meanwhile I have a more pressing request. We are looking for a judge to be part of a two-person team for training in Egypt on judicial management/time management. We are looking for a civil law judge. The Egyptian program has had a number of trainers from France so hopefully we might offer up a few judges from other countries in addition to French judges. I have pasted the description below. As you can see–time is short as the seminar is in November. Do you have any suggestions of judges that I might contact?

ABA ROLI is seeking a judge from a civil law country for an upcoming training on the time management aspects of court administration. The training will take place November 20-24, 2016. The training is split into two two-day sessions with a one day break in between. The course will be co-taught with a local Egyptian judge co-trainer. We prefer trainers to arrive 1 or 2 days early to allow for coordination with their local counterpart. The course will focus on the following items:
· How judges can best organize work their work, including how to set deadlines for themselves;
· How to triage cases (what has to be done first, etc.) and keep on top of the workload;
· How to manage lawyers, and how granting continuances or letting the lawyers control the case negatively affects the judges’ self-imposed deadlines and workload.
We are looking for judicial trainers who have management experience in high-volume courts. Please note that no Arabic language skills are required. We will provide translation and interpretation support, and all participating judges will receive the materials in both English and Arabic.

In addition, I attach below a general description of the work of the rule of law initiative.

http://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/rule_of_law.html

Many thanks for your consideration.