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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... 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, Institutionally Independent Judiciary 97 ...
... justice, or rule of law reform is more than a semantic exercise. Despite near-universal consensus on its importance, the reform movement has been subjected to external questioning almost since its inception. As its practitioners often ...
... justice-sector reforms are thus programs that attempt to improve the performance and impact of court or sector operations. Sector is itself a vague term, but it is usually taken to encompass those institutions most closely related to ...
... 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 deductive conclusion. There was little ...
... justice might indeed produce economic growth and attract foreign investment. Not all were quite as disingenuous as an extraregional example, Cambodia, which in 1996 was proposing to rewrite its entire legal framework on the assumption ...
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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 |