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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 90
... interest law and means of protecting collective and diffuse interests, • Creation of specialized courts, • Creation of small claims and other courts for poor populations, Integration of administrative court systems into the ordinary ...
... interest in adopting more accusatory procedures, which the. 20. Jolowicz (2000, 319). 21. Here there is also a tendency to conflate independence with other values such as impartiality, honesty, and competence, though independent courts ...
... interest in adopting more accusatory procedures, which the proponents believed were more respectful of due process ... interest in prosecuting state agents who had perpetrated abuses.27 In the short run, this additional interest occupied ...
... interest, like the 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 ...
... interest of combating crime. When the multilateral development banks (mdbs) entered the scene in the early 1990s, they did so over considerable internal resistance because the judiciary was considered “political.” Hence, judicial ...
Other editions - View all
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 |