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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... decisions of the prior administration on the basis of their violation of constitutional rights. Terrorist cases and dismissals of government workers are prime targets. 14. See Hammergren (2002a). 15. The most dramatic example was the ...
... decision that criminal justice would be excluded because it is more “political.” 35. See Biebesheimer (2001) and Biebesheimer and Payne (2001) for a review of the idb's portfolio. Biebesheimer and Cordovez (1999) provides an overview of ...
... decisions curbing government programs. Even where sheer numbers were not that high, decisions were often of great consequence. Filings were also encouraged by the development of new mechanisms for making complaints, the creation of ...
... decisions, especially on judicial matters, were often seen as undercutting the independence of ordinary courts or as posing their own conflicts of interest. One example is the expansion of the amparo in Mexico's federal courts.54 A ...
... decisions.60 More instrumental reforms (those seeking extrajudicial impacts) are usually favored by outside groups, either national stakeholders or international allies. Table 1 lays out some of the most common goals and related ...
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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 |