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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... judicial reform in general and in areas such as delay reduction and commercial law are only partly supported by the evidence and, whether supported or not, provide insufficient detail to guide program design. In the second decade of the ...
... extrajudicial programs, often with ngos, court interest in having their own adr facilities has also led to their inclusion in donor projects. In some sense, the adr movement has a life of its own, independent of judicial reform. Its ...
... judicial reform movements elsewhere in the world, Latin Americans continue to have their own distinctive approach to the issues. The regional linkage of democracy building, human rights, and an end to political impunity has been joined ...
... Judicial reform as a now fairly standard set of activities has in its short life almost transcended the need for justification. It has also become an assumed solution for an increasing number of extrajudicial problems—poverty and ...
... underlying them and so adopt a more collaborative approach to identifying what they collectively know and using it to improve their common efforts. PART I five approaches to judicial reform ONE criminal justice twenty years of reforms 23.
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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 |