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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... major lessons to be drawn from the recent evaluations is that implementation is iterative. No matter how much time is given for preparation (and two to three years appear to be an absolute minimum), no one is going to get it right on ...
... major legal traditions, takes a variety of forms, and its operation in the United States or Great Britain or, in its modified form, in Germany and Italy is hardly uniform. The differences lie in the details of each proceeding but, more ...
... major trials in the United States is remarkable for its emphasis on counsel's strategy, the composition of the jury, and even the clothes chosen by the parties as clues to predicting the verdict. The law and the apparent facts of the ...
... major focus of their efforts. We began our examination of the various strategies here, not only to respect the historical order, but also because the longer experience allows more time to test the results and mistakes along the way ...
... major part of any reform but rarely understand its potential for resolving performance problems or in fact recognize that the latter exist. As one Argentine provincial court succinctly put it, “We want computers because we want to be ...
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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 |