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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... frequently commented that an attorney who could not survive as an independent practitioner or get a job as legal counsel in. 13. Stepán (1994, 187) reports, however, that depositions taken by a judge may still be entered as evidence in ...
... frequent stipulation that the suspect be notified within ten days of the start of an investigation. This is reasonable for petty crimes but not very practical for more complex ones. Other examples include arbitrarily set deadlines ...
... frequently provided a protective cover, letting them do what they wanted or what appeared to be required rather than what really made sense. Delays in Drafting Complementary Legislation and InsufWcient Attention to Its Content To be ...
... frequent goal of judiciaries, and efforts to augment the efficiency and efficacy of court actions, largely through the ... frequently describe as “buildings and computers” or “equipment drops.”2 Because these are often the most costly ...
... frequently defined in terms of backlog and delay reduction or increases in the number of cases resolved. It is not only the donors who do this. Peru's very controversial executive-led judicial reform of the 1990s had “zero carga laboral ...
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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 |