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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... Courtroom administration, • • • Judicial (system) administration, • Information and communication technology, Training programs, • Introduction of monitoring, evaluation systems, • • Judicial disciplinary systems, Judicial ethics codes ...
... courtroom staff, the complete failure of the police to cooperate with the judicial investigation, the investigating judge's dual role as sentencing judge, as well as delays, bias, impunity, and, of course, various forms of corruption ...
... courtroom and systemwide administration.31 Local reformers were particularly active in promoting the first elements. Their interest, like the code reforms, had earlier origins, but it took new significance with the realization that ...
... courtroom tactic of anticipating obvious criticism, I will note that the five chapters on reform strategies may well overstate the strategic content of many reform interventions. The treatments represent ideal types, based on what ...
... courtroom staff. The practice is disappearing, but it has not been eliminated. It is reported that in Peru, following the shift to a more accusatory system, the investigating judges are again having their assistants depose witnesses. In ...
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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 |