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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... further opportunities for a miscarriage of justice. As often happens with imitations, the adopters appear to have carried the principle to extremes not seen even in Germany—adding layers of judges not existing in the former country and ...
... further change, or just do not find the other dimensions all that significant. As we shall see, this single-mindedness has costs, not only for what it ignores, but also in advancing what it deems most worthy of attention. TWO judicial ...
... further questions about the relative importance of the aims in the Latin American milieu. Nonetheless, when they choose to do so, proponents of this approach stand on far firmer strategic ground than many of their colleagues pursuing ...
... Further damage by water seepage, rodents and insects, or the occasional fire or flood was all too common. The usual methods for registering case filings also complicated matters. Traditionally, cases arriving at a juzgado (either ...
... further problem was the reliance on pilot projects. Some of these projects did demonstrate improvements in disposition rates and backlogs. This is not uncommon in experimental efforts because participants are often selected for their ...
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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 |