Earlier this year, the American Bar Association approved a new model code of judicial conduct.  The model code provides suggestions to state judiciaries as they update ethics cannons for their judges.  One of the thorniest issues the ABA had to confront was the issue of when a judge should disqualify him or herself from a case.  In this podcast, we hear from a leading national expert, Indiana Law Professor Charlie Geyh, who served as a staff person to the ABA commission that conducted the code update.  Geyh is also a member of the board of directors of Justice at Stake.  We thank the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Judicial Independence for permission to use this recording, which was made in August of 2007 at a panel discussion in San Francisco.