Procedural Fairness Is the Foundation for Making Nonlawyer Judges Effective. (November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Burke, Kevin
• Other Names: Frailing Kelly guest-editor.; Perlin Michael L. guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: American behavioral scientist. Volume 64:Number 12(2020)
• Page Start: 1786
• Page End: 1800
• Publication Date: 2020-11
• Subjects: nonlawyer judges -- procedural fairness -- therapeutic jurisprudence; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; United States -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; 300
• DOI: 10.1177/0002764220956702
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0002-7642

Abstract

This article begins by examining the origins and modern standing of nonlawyer judges. It moves on to recite criticisms levied at nonlawyer judges and the reasons that large-scale elimination of nonlawyer judges is unlikely in the near future. Finally, it concludes by offering procedural fairness training as an attainable and highly effective tool to improve the performance of nonlawyer judges.