A description of the broad impact of judicial administration policies and of how research can inform judicial administration policy decisions. The author outlines the research mission of the Federal Judicial Center and explains how the Center's research objectives are de-ned.

The committee examined the ethical and legal problems posed by experimentation with innovative programs and procedures in the justice system.

In 1972, the Federal Judicial Center established a Media Library in its Division of Continuing Education and Training so that federal court personnel, using equipment in their home court, could hear taped lectures-on topics of special interest, most of them recorded at Center seminars and worksho

Report submitted to the Judicial Conference of the United States, as directed by statute, describing the work of the Center for the calendar year.