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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... Court annexed and freestanding alternative dispute resolution (adr), Recognition/strengthening of traditional (indigenous) dispute-resolution systems, • • Constitutional courts and judicial review powers for supreme courts, • Promotion ...
... supreme and. 9. See chapters in Zuckerman (1999) for a good discussion. See also Jolowicz (2000). For an early ... court performance is not all that high (and less than commonly believed) in the developed world as well. Toharia (2003, 29) ...
... supreme and constitutional courts routinely engage in conflicts with other branches of government, declaring the illegality of high-priority programs or insisting on larger investments in nonpriority areas. For the first time in the ...
... supreme courts. The initiative is linked to concerns about judicial ... Court quickly accumulated more than 100,000 requests for a final review of ... court judgments on other issues, and also entered into a series of decisions curbing ...
... courts or as posing their own conflicts of interest. One example is the expansion of the amparo in Mexico's federal courts.54 A Supreme Court decision in the midnineteenth century allowed the use of the amparo (as a due process ...
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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 |