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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... judicial reforms began in the early 1980s, the task looked daunting but fairly straightforward. Following decades of ... legal framework itself. To the extent courts were not performing these roles in accord with social expectations ...
... Legal and other measures to enhance judicial independence (for example, higher budgets, tenured careers), Improved ... framework to regulate new economic and social practices, Simplification of procedural codes, • Modification of legal ...
... judicial development.” Absent a structural (what a developed judiciary looks like) or functional (how it operates) ... legal framework on the assumption that modern laws would bring in a flood of foreign investors. Nevertheless, many ...
... legal assistance, often channeled through ngos, an emphasis on lower-level ... judicial and legal actors, adr has gained dramatically in popularity in the ... framework demotes institution building (called capacity building) to a lower ...
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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 |