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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... 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 not ...
... reduction in annual filings in several countries.17 The list goes on, but the more general point is that the onceorphan ... reduced its demands to 2.4. 17. This is often connected to the introduction of court fees, in part to discourage ...
... reduction. Another program with an Argentine provincial court is also financing a new courthouse. In that case, it ... reducing poverty and inequality has been far less than promised. (Burki and Perry, 1998; 3). Among their suggested ...
... reduction of civil violence. Whereas donors began by funding extrajudicial programs, often with ngos, court interest in having their own adr facilities has also led to their inclusion in donor projects. In some sense, the adr movement ...
... reducing delays, expanding access, and introducing adr) have received somewhat more acceptance, but there are still holdouts on the bench and in the wider legal community who interpret this as an unhealthy commoditization of justice and.
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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 |