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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... selection systems for judges and support personnel, • Courtroom administration, • • • Judicial (system) administration, • Information and communication technology, Training programs, • Introduction of monitoring, evaluation systems ...
... selection and promotions of judges and sometimes court staff. The move was usually linked to the creation of permanent judicial careers, increases in salary levels and budgets, which sometimes were also under the control of councils ...
... selected. Academic Code Drafting in an Empirical Vacuum By now, not even the drafters would disagree that the codes had some shortcomings and that some of these originate in their own oversights and ambiguities. Moreover, many codes ...
... selection, competing experts, and manipulation of discovery (the exchange of information on evidence collected) are inherent to the U.S. system but have little if any place in the European inquisitorial or quasi-accusatorial one. U.S. ...
... selected for their willingness to try new methods and receive special attention from the project directors and consultants. The expectation that these demonstration efforts would inspire nationwide replication has rarely been met. Some ...
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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 |