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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... codes, • Modification of legal codes and procedures to strengthen human, civil, and due process rights, Legal-assistance programs, • Reforms of professional associations, Popular legal education, • • • Strengthening of auxiliary ...
... codes themselves and the potentially contradictory ends they were supposed to pursue. While the Latin American reformers were most interested in new. 25. This movement goes back to the 1960s and the Latin American model codes movement ...
... code reforms, had earlier origins, but it took new significance with the realization that incompetent, corrupt, politically dependent judiciaries and judges were unlikely to apply the new codes in the spirit in which they were written ...
... codes or introduced new. 39. Even the best-known researchers in this area are beginning to have doubts about the adequacy of their ability to measure the quality of institutions. See the Economist, August 7, 2004, 63, for a brief ...
... codes or introduced new bankruptcy, secured collateral, or corporate governance laws on just such reasoning.43 Even assuming that the rankings approximated some measure of judicial development, the second problem is how to translate ...
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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 |