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Prior and existing judicial education programs in the U.S. were/are mostly seminars. A few states have long-standing judicial education programs, but unlike the DC Judicial College, they tend to consist of short seminars or conferences on legal or policy issues, are lecture-style, speaker or issue-centrict, without the benefit of skills-based admissions criteria, or measuring of "judicial skills," and the courses are generally too short in duration to be useful and effective for purposes of testing and developing those skills. Local state judicial training programs (UVA, GMU; ASTAR-MD) are increasingly comprehensive, e.g., incorporating the use of math, hard sciences, and social sciences as learning tools for the development of core and advanced judicial skills. These are part of national efforts to address the need for a separate and distinct educational program for the judicial profession. What was required, the need being well-recognized, is a judicial eduction of longer duration..

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