演讲题目：联邦法院的法庭审判与庭外和解
主讲人：Janet Arterton ( 珍妮特·阿特顿 女士 )
美国康涅狄格区联邦法官（United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut），曾效力于康涅狄格纽黑文律师事务所，并曾担任该事务所的总裁。她的名字曾入选《美国最佳律师名录》。自1978年起接受任命担任联邦区法官。
主持人：卞建林教授（中国刑事诉讼法学研究会会长，中国政法大学诉讼法学研究中心主任，中国政法大学研究生院常务副院长）
时 间：10月16日（周一）晚 19：00－21：00
地 点：中国政法大学学院路校区 教学楼419教室
中国政法大学诉讼法学研究中心
2006年10月13日
附：珍妮特·阿特顿女士中英文简历
珍妮特·阿特顿
阿特顿法官1995年1月23日被克林顿总统提名为康涅狄格地区的联邦法官，经参议院批准后于同年5月15日正式就任。成为法官之后，由于工作出色，她获得了由康涅狄格妇女教育及法律基金会等多个机构颁发的奖项。
2005年，她被授予美国西北大学法学院的荣誉法学博士学位。阿特顿法官目前在美国司法联合会国际司法关系委员会任职，负责有关司法教育和观察项目及同美国国务院民主人权和劳工事务局的联络工作。此前，她曾在康涅狄格州律师基金会会员顾问研究委员会任职，主管地区法院美国信托证券顾问委员会的工作，并于2000年受邀成为法官协会成员。
阿特顿法官定期就司法独立、法院管理、法律、联邦庭审实践与程序、庭外和解以及其他与法律基本领域相关的内容举办演讲。她还经常接待来访的外国法官，协调司法观察项目并参与司法发展计划，包括在科索沃、圣卢西亚、柬埔寨及苏里南进行的项目。
阿特顿法官致力于促进法律进步，推动司法独立、司法权限及完善司法体系。她曾开发并参与了为韩国、苏里南、俄罗斯、中国及柬埔寨等国法官组织的司法观察项目，曾为来自科索沃的法官和检察官举办司法培训，曾发起与圣卢西亚东加勒比最高法院之间的司法教育交流项目，并对考察墨西哥、柬埔寨及苏里南等国的司法制度做出了贡献。
自1978年至接受任命担任联邦区法官之前，阿特顿法官一直致力于康涅狄格纽黑文律师事务所（前身为伽里森·阿特顿律师事务所），并曾担任该事务所的总裁。在该所任职期间，她的业务范围主要包括与劳工事务、雇佣歧视及雇员权利有关的诉讼案，既有联邦法院审理的也有州法院审理的。她曾担任康涅狄格州律师协会联邦法院业务处的主管，康涅狄格州庭审律师协会管理委员会的委员，以及纽黑文法律学院的官员。她曾入选联邦民事司法改革法案顾问委员会、美国文职法官选拔委员会、州法院法规顾问委员会以及联邦区法院地方法规顾问委员会。她也曾当选康涅狄格高等法院的律师庭审仲裁人和联邦区法院的特别主持。她还曾获得过美国律师基金会和康涅狄格律师基金会的研究基金。经过严格审核，她得到提名并入选《美国最佳律师名录》。
Janet Bond Arterton
United States District Judge
United States Courthouse
141Church Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06510
Judge Arterton was nominated by President Bill Clinton on January23, 1995, confirmed by the United States Senate on March24, 1995 and entered duty on May15, 1995 as United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut. In 1996, she received the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund’s Maria Miller Stewart Recognition Award. In 2000 she received Community Mediation Inc.’s Robert C. Zampano Award for Excellence in Mediation.
In 2005 she received the Northeastern University School of Law Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws. Judge Arterton serves on the United States Judicial Conference Committee on International Judicial Relations, on which she is the designated liaison for judicial education and observation programs and the State Department Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor. She formerly served on Connecticut Bar Foundation’s Fellows Advisory Research Committee, chaired the District Court’s Advisory Committee on ADR, and was invited to membership in the Benchers in 2000.
She regularly speaks on judicial independence, court administration, rule of law, federal trial practice and procedures, court-annexed mediation and various substantive areas of law. She hosts international judges, coordinates judicial observation programs, and participates in judicial development projects, including programs in Kosovo, St.Lucia, Cambodia and Suriname.
Keenly interested in advancing principles of rule of law and judicial independence, competence and integrity, she has developed and participated in judicial observation programs for judges from Korea, Suriname, Russia, China and Cambodia, conducted a judicial training program for judges and prosecutors in Kosovo, initiated a judicial education exchange program with the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in St.Lucia, and contributes to the examination of other judicial systems, including Mexico, Cambodia and Suriname.
She was previously president of the New Haven, Connecticut law firm formerly known as Garrison＆Arterton where she practiced from 1978 until her appointment. There, her legal career focused on labor, employment discrimination and employee rights litigation in federal and state courts. She was chairperson of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Federal Practice Section, member of The Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association Board of Governors, Officer in New Haven Inn of Court, and served by appointment on the Federal Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee, the United States Magistrate Judge Selection Committee, the State Court Rules Advisory Committee, and the United States District Court Local Rules Advisory Committee. She also served by appointment as a Connecticut Superior Court Attorney Trial Referee and a Special Master in Federal District Court. She was elected to fellowship in the American Bar Foundation and Connecticut Bar Foundation, and was selected by peer review for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America.