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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... Latin American system featured the investigation of a purported crime by an instructional (or investigative) judge and its presentation to the trial judge (in some cases the same person) in the form of a written dossier (expediente) ...
Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren. While the Latin American reformers were most interested in new laws, it soon became apparent that absent other changes they would have ...
... Latin American judiciaries also promoted on their own. Resource constraints meant that most of this early work ... Latin America's criminal justice reforms, which left the way open for the banks to work on noncriminal law. It should be ...
Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren. organizations ... American constitutions now incorporate such practices as an alternative source of law but leave numerous unresolved ...
Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren. opportunities ... american approaches As contrasted with judicial reform movements elsewhere in the world, Latin Americans continue to ...
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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 |