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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... efficiency, and independence—these have not figured in all reforms, and, even where they do, they receive different definitions and different emphases.18 As several observers have noted, we may all agree on the desirability of these ...
... efficiency of courtroom and systemwide administration.31 Local reformers were particularly active in promoting the first elements. Their interest, like the code reforms, had earlier origins, but it took new significance with the ...
... efficiency-enhancement measure that was also supposed to make room for more cases). As a reform tool, adr thus extends across several objectives. In some countries it has even been suggested as a mechanism for resolving human rights ...
... efficiency; more opportunities to protest due process violations also enhanced the chances. 50. One significant exception was a usaid project undertaken in Costa Rica in the early 1990s. As the new Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme ...
... efficiency and modernity, downplaying power enhancement, though not necessarily independence or status. Many ... efficient system that only does “telephone” (directed) justice when cases are of extreme importance for political elites. 61 ...
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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 |