National Judicial Education Program (NJEP)

The National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts (NJEP) is a unique, award-winning project that educates judges and justice system professionals about the ways gender bias can be a factor across the spectrum of civil, criminal, family and juvenile law, and how to prevent it.

Established in 1980 by Legal Momentum in cooperation with the National Association of Women Judges, NJEP defines gender bias as stereotyped thinking about the nature and roles of women and men, devaluation of women and what is perceived as women's work, and myths and misconceptions about the social and economic realities of women's lives.

To promote access to the justice system and equality for women and men in the courts, NJEP creates and presents model judicial curricula, publishes articles in the judicial and legal press, and supports the state Supreme Court task forces on gender bias in the courts, for which NJEP was the catalyst.

 

OUR WORK
Sexual Assault
Women of Color in the Courts
Task Forces on Gender Bias in the Courts
NJEP History

PUBLICATIONS
Video/DVDs
Model Curricula
Web Course

Praise for NJEP's new web course/resource, Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse: Adjudicating this Hidden Dimension of Domestic Violence:

"This course is superb. Every judge, prosecutor, public defender, probation and parole officer, and police officer should take it. I highly recommend this course for all involved in the criminal justice system. Well done and thank you. I will be a better judge as a result."

"I work primarily internationally on issues of gender-based violence and most recently submitted comments to a prosecutor manual being drafted in Liberia for sexual assault cases. The materials I found on this Course Website were particularly useful. I have recommended the course to several other attorneys and judges…Thank you very much for making this extremely valuable resource available especially to those of us who labor in other countries without easily accessible legal materials."

 

Did You Know...

In studies of battered women, many experience sexual abuse as well as physical violence, and forced sex is a leading indicator of increasing danger and potential lethality.

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