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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... enhancing their role in checking illegal actions by governmental and private actors.6 “Strengthening,” a favorite word of reformers, meant increasing judicial independence, updating laws and internal processes, professionalizing judges ...
... enhance judicial independence (for example, higher budgets, tenured careers), Improved selection systems for judges and support personnel, • Courtroom administration, • • • Judicial (system) administration, • Information and ...
... enhancement strategy or one augmenting the judiciary's ability to check governmental abuses. Sometimes this is just a matter of priorities. The efforts to improve criminal justice proceedings do consider efficiency, but only on a ...
... enhancement programs have increased budgetary outlays without necessarily improving service delivery to target groups; moreover, there are indications of a negative impact on juridical security. With more cases and more diverse issues ...
... enhancement measure that was also supposed to make room for more cases). As a reform tool, adr thus extends across several objectives. In some countries it has even been suggested as a mechanism for resolving human rights cases ...
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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 |