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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... organizational structures change or the fact that so many legal changes remain paper transformations at best. Still, critics seem reluctant to credit any advances, often relying on outdated descriptions of vices and weaknesses that are ...
... organizations (ngos), • Court annexed and freestanding alternative dispute resolution (adr), Recognition/strengthening of traditional (indigenous) dispute-resolution systems, • • Constitutional courts and judicial review powers for ...
... groups within the World Bank complicate that organization's work with their varying approaches to the role of law and thus to judicial reform. 9. See chapters in Zuckerman (1999) for a good discussion. twenty years of reforms 5.
... organizations has changed a great deal in twenty years, and they operate differently as well. Many of the partial goals have indeed been advanced—as witnessed by higher budgets; better salaries and career status for judges and other ...
... organizations they are supposed to oversee.14 The introduction of judicial careers and secure tenure has brought complaints that “bad” judges now enjoy considerable immunity and that judicial leadership has been lax in monitoring ...
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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 |