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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... Individuals with resources to hire a capable attorney could either buy their way out of the charges or easily defeat them in court. Those without representation or dependent on state subsidized counsel either languished in jail without ...
... individual systems, also have their dangers. First, the success of the borrowed mechanisms in its country of origin is often overstated. Judicial councils had already encountered considerable criticism among the European adopters before ...
... individual routines—the most difficult part is undoubtedly modifying their interactions with each other, within organizations and among them. It is a conventional and probably accurate truth that, absent any instructions to the contrary ...
... individual court staff, or accumulate in piles in the archive room. It was thus not uncommon for files to go missing, on purpose or out of sheer carelessness. It was rare to find a courtroom with any sense of modern filing techniques ...
... of rationalizing and improving court information management strategies—including both judicial statistics and case-tracking systems. 22. World Bank (2002b). 23. Individual trial judges commonly average judicial modernization 63.
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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 |