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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... procedures to strengthen human, civil, and due process rights, Legal-assistance programs, • Reforms of professional associations, Popular legal education, • • • Strengthening of auxiliary institutions (police, prosecution, and public ...
... procedures; reduction of some traditional ills; and greater political presence.11 Nonetheless, as a whole, Latin American judicial systems seem no closer to meeting citizen expectations. Changes in internal structures and practices are ...
... procedures, which the. 20. Jolowicz (2000, 319). 21. Here there is also a tendency to conflate independence with other values such as impartiality, honesty, and competence, though independent courts and judges are quite capable of being ...
... procedures, which the proponents believed were more respectful of due process rights than the existing inquisitorial systems.25 Allowing for variations of detail, the traditional Latin American system featured the investigation of a ...
... procedures have since spread at both the state and federal level. They have become so popular that they are experiencing their own problems of congestion. Peru's justice of the peace courts, while traditionally only tolerated by the ...
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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 |