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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Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hammergren, Linn A. Envisioning reform : improving judicial performance in Latin ...
... judicial reform 1 Criminal Justice Reform: Human Rights, Crime Control, and Other Unlikely Bedfellows 27 2 Judicial Modernization: Increasing the Efficiency and Efficacy of Court Actions 55 vii 3 Developing a Professional ...
Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book is the product of twenty years of working on and thinking about judicial reform in Latin America and ...
... judiciary, including police, prosecution, public defense, the private bar, and law schools and extending into legal and regulatory areas where courts often have little relevance. Although the present discussion will focus on judicial reform ...
... judicial role, use of the necessary components, and financial implications are not at all apparent. The parallel tracks do help explain some of the external criticisms. A reform intended to increase courts' efficiency in processing ...
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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 |