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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... collect their own evidence. Police also complained that prosecutors' efforts to be at every crime scene tended to obstruct routine investigations.42 Salvadoran police could use more supervision, but the prosecutors seemed unable to ...
... collected, and the role of the judge in overseeing its presentation. In Bolivia, where a U.S. and a German judge collaborated in holding practice trials, they found they held very different views of what a judge does in the courtroom ...
... collection of the facts (albeit with the participation of the defense), court-appointed experts, and possibly the ... collected) are inherent to the U.S. system but have little if any place in the European inquisitorial or quasi ...
... collected and what use the parties make of it. The fact that so many of the problems encountered with the new proceedings tend to lie in the investigative stage supports this view. There is an obvious temporal aspect to this problem ...
... collected in a large file, the pages of which were sewn into place to prevent their intentional or unintentional loss. These files (the expedientes) might number fifty pages for a very simple matter and comprise multiple volumes of ...
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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 |