The 26^th National College on Judicial Conduct and Ethics will be held Wednesday October 23 through Friday October 25, 2019, in Chicago at the Embassy Suites Downtown Lakefront.  The College registration fee will be $425 through September 4, but $450 beginning September 6.  The hotel room rate will be $239 for single or double occupancy, which includes breakfast.

The College will begin Wednesday afternoon with registration and a reception.  Thursday morning there will be a plenary session, followed by concurrent break-out sessions through Friday noon.  The College provides a forum for judicial conduct commission members and staff, judges, judicial ethics advisory committees, and others to discuss professional standards for judges and current issues in judicial discipline.

Registration will be open sometime in the spring.  As usual, there were be a session on determining the appropriate sanction and sessions for new members of judicial conduct commissions and public members of judicial conduct commissions.  As has become usual in the last few College, there will probably be a session on social media.  If you have suggestions for other sessions, please e-mail cgray@ncsc.org.

Registration is now open for the 25^th National College on Judicial Conduct and Ethics.  There is a link from the College registration site to the hotel reservation site.  If you have any questions about registration, contract Alisa Kim at akim@ncsc.org or (303) 308-4340.

The College will be held Wednesday October 4 through Friday October 6, 2017 in Austin, Texas at the Omni Austin Hotel Downtown.  The College will begin Wednesday afternoon with registration and a reception.  Thursday morning there will be a plenary session, followed by concurrent break-out sessions through Friday noon.  The room rate will be $219 for single or double occupancy, which includes breakfast.  The College registration fee will be $400 through July 31, but $425 beginning August 1. The College provides a forum for judicial conduct commission members and staff, judges, judicial ethics advisory committees, and others to discuss professional standards for judges and current issues in judicial discipline.

There is a complete description of sessions and moderators on-line.  The session topics are:

PLENARY SESSION

Social Media and Judges:  Bright Lines and Best Practices

BREAK-OUT SESSIONS

• Disqualification
• The Curious Judge: Independent Factual Investigations
• Judicial Discipline and Technology
• Ethical Guidelines for Members of Judicial Conduct Commissions
• Judicial Impairments
• Best Practices for Judicial Ethics Advisory Committees
• Pro Se Litigants and Judicial Ethics
• Fines, Fees, and Judicial Ethics
• Determining the Appropriate Sanction
• The Role of Public Members
• Introduction to Judicial Ethics and Discipline for New Members of Judicial Conduct Commissions