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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... public ministry (Procuraduría General) are responsible for much of the corruption in that institution, at both the federal and state levels. 64. Only Chile has included prisons in its reform program. criminal justice reform 51.
... federal courts.11 For many of these consultants, delay and overload were the fundamental problems and the crux of any reform. Over a period of just a few years, they also appeared on the local reform agenda, in some cases replacing many ...
... federal court, in the city of Buenos Aires, we saw an estimated 13,000 civil case files piled on every available flat surface in the courtroom. Not surprisingly, most of the courtroom staff was occupied in moving them around or locating ...
... federal courts appear to have followed the first Costa Rican approach. Despite a hefty investment in automation equipment, their courtrooms retain the same vast army of support staff needed when everything was done manually.23 In the ...
... federal and state courts are only now beginning to reconsider this policy. In 2002, the federal chief justice, Góngora Pimental, promised that from then on judgments will be published. Two years later, state courts had yet to take a ...
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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 |