Course Advisor: James G. Apple
Mr. Apple is Chairman of the Board, President and founding Director of the International Judicial Academy. He is former Chief, Interjudicial Affairs Office, United States Federal Judicial Center. During his nine and one half year tenure at the Federal Judicial Center, Mr. Apple directed or co-directed more than fifty seminars and hundreds of briefings for judges and legal officials from 152 countries. He has published numerous articles for both U.S. and foreign publications on judges, courts and court administration and has lectured on those subjects at judicial training institutes and universities around the world. He has degrees in philosophy and in law from the University of Virginia and an LLM from the University of Edinburgh. He is co-author of A Primer on the Civil Law System and Manual for Cooperation between State and Federal Courts, both published by the Federal Judicial Center.