by Eric Surber | Nov 16, 2022 | Latest News, Trauma-Informed Courts
As the academic leader of the N.C. Chief Justice’s Task Force on ACEs-Informed Courts, the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law is moving forward with plans to scale its trauma-informed courts curriculum by offering it to newly elected and appointed judges in North...
by Eric Surber | May 3, 2022 | Latest News, Trauma-Informed Courts
The Bolch Judicial Institute’s Trauma-Informed Courts initiative was selected by Duke University’s Bass Connections as a 2022–23 project team. Bass Connections will fund a team of Duke undergraduate and graduate students to investigate the impact of...
by Eric Surber | Aug 31, 2021 | Latest News, Trauma-Informed Courts
Working in collaboration with N.C. Chief Justice Paul Newby’s taskforce on ACEs-informed courts, the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School developed and administered a pilot version of a trauma education curriculum designed for North Carolina’s judges. On...
by Eric Surber | Jun 25, 2021 | Latest News, Trauma-Informed Courts
On the most recent episode of All Things Judicial, a podcast produced by the North Carolina Judicial Branch, Amelia Ashton Thorn, director of Special Projects at the Bolch Judicial Institute, discusses a new judicial education program to inform N.C. judges and court...
by Eric Surber | May 26, 2021 | Latest News, Trauma-Informed Courts
David F. Levi, director of the Bolch Judicial Institute, and Amelia Ashton Thorn, assistant director for special projects, were named by North Carolina Chief Justice Paul Newby to a new task force to help courts better understand the impact of adverse childhood...