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 42
... involved no immediate change in the draft codes. In fact, usaid workers used to joke that, when a congressional or other U.S. delegation visited, it was well to determine whether they were human rights advocates or crime fighters so as ...
... involved in Latin America's criminal justice reforms, which left the way open for the banks to work on noncriminal law. It should be emphasized that the connection between market-based growth and civil and commercial law was a purely ...
... involvement. Costa Rica's Sala Constitutional (constitutional chamber), created in 1989, was soon receiving and deciding 2,000 and then 10,000 cases annually, over a ten-year period. Colombia's Constitutional Court quickly accumulated ...
... involvement while those without funds become the scapegoats. An antiquated tradition of weighted evidence (prueba tasada)19 gave most importance to a confession. The police thus used any and all means at hand to extract one. Supervision ...
... were rarely enacted as a package, the coalition of. 45. This appears to be the case in Guatemala, judging by the experts involved in each stage. 46. In Guatemala, the new procedural code was enacted in criminal justice reform 43.
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 |