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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... early to mid-1990s, see topics and articles in Crohn and Davis (1996). 32. Although several Latin American councils drew on the Spanish model, they often copied poorly and also overlooked some of Spain's problems with the innovation ...
... early work focused on the criminal courts where delays were seen as damaging to both human rights goals and the interest of combating crime. When the multilateral development banks (mdbs) entered the scene in the early 1990s, they did ...
... early 1990s, they also began to expand their activities to include support to general legal assistance, often channeled through ngos, an emphasis on lower-level courts, popular legal education, and public forums for discussing reforms ...
... early 1990s. As the new Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court was in danger of being overcome by its burgeoning workload, usaid provided a $100,000 grant to hire law clerks and set up a computerized case management system for the ...
... early emergence is explained by the conjunction of several factors. First was the longer-term interest among Latin American jurists in effecting a change to more accusatory criminal justice proceedings, following trends in Europe 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 |