Monday, October 24, 2022
12:50 PM to 2:00 PM PST
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Ensuring Judicial Independence in the United States and Lessons for Uzbekistan
Professor Botirjon Kosimov analyzes how judicial independence is ensured in the United States of America and what lessons Uzbekistan may take from these practices. The paper embraces a wide range of issues related to judicial independence, namely the history of judicial independence, its theory and relationship with judicial accountability, challenges to judicial independence, and legal foundations for ensuring judicial independence and judicial discipline. Professor Kosimov’s paper also considers the role of digitalization of courts in ensuring judicial independence, which is very important in today’s world.
Speaker:
Professor Botirjon Kosimov
Tashkent State University
Professor Kosimov is an Acting Associate Professor at Tashkent State University of Law, a leading law university in Uzbekistan. He received his law degree in 2010 and a Master of Law degree in 2016 from Tashkent State University of Law. During his studies, he interned at the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan, a district criminal court in Tashkent city, and the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan. During his ten-year academic career, he has trained hundreds of law students. He teaches Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, and Parliamentary Law courses.
Discussant:
Judge Jeremy Fogel (ret.)
Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, Berkeley Law
Jeremy Fogel is the first Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, a center at Berkeley Law School whose mission is to build bridges between judges and academics and to promote an ethical, resilient and independent judiciary. Prior to his appointment at Berkeley, he served as Director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC (2011–2018), as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of California (1998–2011), and as a judge of the Santa Clara County Superior (1986–1998) and Municipal (1981–1986) Courts. He was the founding Directing Attorney of the Mental Health Advocacy Project from 1978 to 1981 and was a national leader in promoting access to justice for people with chronic mental health issues. As a consultant for Regional Dialogue (an international NGO) and with funding from the U.S. Department of State, he has visited Uzbekistan on three separate occasions to support judicial modernization efforts.
Presented by the Visiting Scholars Program.