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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... Brazil, 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 ...
... Brazil began such a program under the military government of the 1980s, formally recognizing it in its 1988 ... Brazil's small claims courts, the creation of simplified procedures has not been a pattern, but courts did make other efforts ...
... Brazil, special prosecutors52) that could represent citizen claims, and a growing interest among legal ngos in ... Brazil's public ministry in protecting constitutional rights, see Bastos Arantes (2002) and Sadek and Batista Calvalcanti ...
... Brazil's national bar (Organização de Advogados do Brasil, oab) and largest judicial (Associação dos Magistrados do Brasil, amb) associations have in fact protested this linkage as a proglobalization plot, promoted by the World Bank ...
... 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), twenty years ...
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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 |