JFI/Law & Literature

The Board of the Judicial Family Institute sponsors a seminar for Chief Justices and their families at semiannual meetings of the Conference of Chief Justices. These sessions involve selection of an author and certain of his/her works for pre-conference reading. The sessions are led by the author and are intended to assist judges and their families in exploring complex questions raised by the selected publications.

The scripts or talking points of the authors who facilitate these sessions are posted to this website to provide other judicial families with the unique insights of the authors.

As her historic career winds down, Sandra Day O'Connor recalls her Stanford anxiety, her first job, and the pain and privilege of blazing the trail. See
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/janfeb/features/oconnor.html
“There I Grew Up” by Chief Justice Frank Williams, a noted Lincoln scholar, to the Law and Literature program, was delivered at the Summer 2006 Chief Justices meeting.
Overview of Law and Literature Programs Co-Sponsored by the Judicial Family Institute for the Conference Of Chief Justices
"An Anatomy of Anatomy of a Murder" by Frederick Baker, Jr.