{"id":1094,"date":"2013-10-15T18:37:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T18:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2013-10-29T13:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T13:46:22","slug":"preparing-mexicos-judges-for-legal-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/preparing-mexicos-judges-for-legal-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing Mexico\u2019s Judges for Legal Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mexico1[1]\"U.S.-style oral arguments and cross-examinations will soon become part of Mexico\u2019s legal system. In preparation for judicial reform, UNL law professor Steven Schmidt led a team of instructors that provided two weeklong trial advocacy courses for family law judges and magistrates of Mexico\u2019s Superior Court. Participants learned every aspect of an oral adversarial trial as well as the judge\u2019s role. Although the training familiarized participants with U.S.-style oral advocacy, it used facts and legal issues derived from Mexico\u2019s judicial system. The collaborative agreement between UNL and Mexico\u2019s Superior Court of Justice for the Federal District, signed in May 2013, builds on a partnership between the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico and UNL\u2019s College of Law. Previously, UNL provided advocacy training for Mexican lawyers for several years with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S.-style oral arguments and cross-examinations will soon become part of Mexico\u2019s legal system. In preparation for judicial reform, UNL law professor Steven Schmidt led a team of instructors that provided two weeklong trial advocacy courses for family law judges and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[494,563,504,505,506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}