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Judy Joyce is the pen name for author, lecturer, speaker, political consultant, trial attorney, and international delegate in Conflict Resolution, Judith J. Tomsic, J.D. Judy's creative interests have taken her from expository writing like a treatise on "Legal Metaphysics in an Age of Disbelief" to short story and fiction novel genres begun while sitting on the Board of Directors of the Palm Springs Writers Guild.

From these broad perspectives and influences, Judy has written and published widely on legal topics both foreign and domestic, as well as, works of secular, spiritual, and theological interest. Creatively inspired to advance her interests in the arts and culture, Judy sketches, paints, and at one time produced a Noel Coward play performed by the Sausalito Players of Marin County, California. She also developed a training course for California Bar Association members based on the works of Charles Dickens.

Recently a delegate in International Conflict Resolution to New Zealand and Australia in 2002. she went on to become a Judiciary Law delegate to South Africa in 2003. As the first Californian to meet with the Constitutional Court, the High Court of Appeal, and the Magistrate Court post-apartheid, JUDY traveled with 32 U.S. Federal and State judges.

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STUDY AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY - The Law School Program at Oxford is a marvelous experience. Our group of United States attorneys enjoyed not just the study sessions with Oxford's legal Dons, but living on campus at Magdalen College. Magdalen emains as bucolic as it must have been when Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien walked the quad.

Having our own key to the University's libraries was a heady experience. I so enjoyed one on one afternoons with Colin Dexter, Oxford author of the "Inspector Morse" series of books. The PBS series based on Inspector Morse is one of my favorites. Colin Tapper, who wrote the United Kingdom's definitive work on the Rules of Evidence was another charming and brilliiant lecturer. But, wonderful authors of all genres and interests fill the halls of the world's premiere institution of higher learning

With a child's mind, it is sheer delight to visit Christ Church college there.Waking up the massive staircaae and into the dining hall used for the Harry Potter films brings fantasy to life. Tucked in a corner of the Dining Hall is a non-descript painting of someone who looks familar but hard to place when reading the name, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Eventually, it dawns on you or someone whispers, "That's Lewis Carroll of Alice in Wonderland fame. He was a mathematics lecturer here". Oxford is truly a writer's paradise.

A LADY IN A BLUE DRESS - A PERSONAL STORY FROM S.AFRICA

The agendas for these high level meetings as a Judicial Law delegate to the Constitutional Court of South Africa included discussions of access to justice for the underrepresented in a transitional democracy including first hand experience in Soweto and Hout Bay. Meetings with Law School faculties of the University of South Africa and Capetown Law School shed additional light on the issues facing the court system. Like the Maori of New Zealand, the Aborigine of Australia and the customary laws of S. Africa's tribal communities, each culture is struggling to provide it's citizens with legal systems that are accessible, fair, and just. Judy writes about these struggles in articles, short stories, and now novels. Her most recent publication on Amazon.com's Kindle Books is entitled "A Lady in a Blue Dress" and inspires much of her work.

As a former member of California Lawyers for the Arts, Judy contributed to the Arts through pro bono representations of members of the artistic community including such things as negotiating disputes among members of a well- known symphony orchestra to a photographer left to languish on the road and unpaid for her work traveling the United States backroads shooting America's rural mailboxes for a client who shall remain unnamed.

At one point - a street-artist jewelry maker, selling her wares not too far from a meeting of the American Bar Association - needed assistance with the Arts Commission in a well-known city by the bay. The artist was so grateful for Judy's help with the Commission, she presented her with only one of two sets of earrings and a bracelet that she'd made. The other set, the artist informed Judy, was purchased by Hillary Clinton visiting the artists booth between Hillary's speaking engagements at the ABA.

Arts & Humanities > Schools of Thought Most influential philosophers in metaphysics

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Many people understand the concept of the study of physics knowing all the while if not factually, at least intuitively, that it is a difficult field to comprehend for the ordinary student. How much more so, metaphysics. Not understanding the concept of metaphysics means answering an inquiry about the most influential philosophers in the field is in need of a bit more understanding. Physics, broadly understood, is the science of beings that are material (or able to undergo change, which amounts to the same thing). Metaphysics is based on deeper principles, and encompasses additionally thos...

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