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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... problems and remedies 6 Judicial Reform as a Problem of Focus: Why the Parts Don't Add Up to a Coherent Whole 213 7 Improving the Knowledge Base for Judicial Reform Programs 241 8 Toward a New Strategic Model 271 9 A Political Agenda ...
... problem for anyone writing about the region is the rapid pace at which legally mandated procedures and organizational ... problems as encountered in an otherwise excellent overview (Méndez et al. 1999) of the region's systems, see ...
... problems and have yet to develop a means for addressing them. For many reformers, they do not exist, at least not in ... problem is defining judicial reform. The best we can do is tie the definition to the targeted entities. Judicial or ...
... problems, the reformers had proposed the transition to an accusatory proceedings, featuring investigation by an independent prosecutor (rather than a judge), provision of defense counsel who would conduct his own investigation, oral ...
... problem is how to translate them into reform programming. At most, the rankings provide opinions about overall timeliness, honesty, and cost. They do not indicate which kinds of courts, which proceedings, or which laws pose problems ...
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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 |