Envisioning Reform: Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin AmericaJudicial reform became an important part of the agenda for development in Latin America early in the 1980s, when countries in the region started the process of democratization. Connections began to be made between judicial performance and market-based growth, and development specialists turned their attention to “second generation” institutional reforms. Although considerable progress has been made already in strengthening the judiciary and its supporting infrastructure (police, prosecutors, public defense counsel, the private bar, law schools, and the like), much remains to be done. Linn Hammergren’s book aims to turn the spotlight on the problems in the movement toward judicial reform in Latin America over the past two decades and to suggest ways to keep the movement on track toward achieving its multiple, though often conflicting, goals. After Part I’s overview of the reform movement’s history since the 1980s, Part II examines five approaches that have been taken to judicial reform, tracing their intellectual origins, historical and strategic development, the roles of local and international participants, and their relative success in producing positive change. Part III builds on this evaluation of the five partial approaches by offering a synthetic critique aimed at showing how to turn approaches into strategies, how to ensure they are based on experiential knowledge, and how to unite separate lines of action. |
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... Argentina, and Peru. For Brazil, see Ballard (1999) and Santiso (2003). Argentina's experience has recently received attention because of difficulties it posed in reaching an agreement with the imf in January, 2002. When judges at all ...
... Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru) overruling neoliberal economic policies. A few outside observers have begun to ask that question (Wilson et al. 2004; Santiso 2003). 1. See Llobet (1993), Maier et al. (1993), Baytelman (2002) ...
... Argentina, enacted a criminal procedures code in 1939, which is regarded as the first step in the regional reform process. 2. Correa (1999) gives a good overview. See also Hammergren (1998a, 1998e), Popkin (2000), Spence and Vickers ...
... Argentina at the federal level and in many provinces) retain an investigative judge as well as a prosecutor. As they have introduced oral trials, they are considered to have a “modern-mixed,” rather than an accusatory system. With the ...
... (Argentina), and Chile. A second series was later completed in Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Venezuela. In addition, several Argentine ngos have conducted evaluations of the new criminal procedures adopted in the Argentine ...
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Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren Limited preview - 2010 |
Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn A. Hammergren No preview available - 2007 |