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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... complaints about court performance and their own observations as to what appeared not to be working.7 In societies less influenced by Western juridical traditions, they might have been accused of applying an ethnocentric model, but, at ...
... complaint services, • • • Modernization of legal framework to regulate new economic and social practices, Simplification of procedural codes, • Modification of legal codes and procedures to strengthen human, civil, and due process ...
... complaints. More-independent supreme and. 9. See chapters in Zuckerman (1999) for a good discussion. See also Jolowicz (2000). For an early discussion of some contradictions emerging in the constitutional area, see Tate and Vallinder ...
... complaints. More-independent supreme and constitutional courts routinely engage in conflicts with other branches of government, declaring the illegality of high-priority programs or insisting on larger investments in nonpriority areas ...
... complaints, the creation of specialized bodies (human rights ombudsmen, or, as in Brazil, special prosecutors52) that could represent citizen claims, and a growing interest among legal ngos in public-interest law. While often supporting ...
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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 |