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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... objectives. Thus, the subsequent history of the criminal justice reforms demonstrates a growing recognition and incorporation of additional elements to turn legal theory into practice. These included training programs, the creation of ...
... objectives. In some countries it has even been suggested as a mechanism for resolving human rights cases. Although first strongly resisted by judicial and legal actors, adr has gained dramatically in popularity in the past ten years.48 ...
... objectives are presented with their logical activities and results. It should be noted that many reforms are not designed or implemented quite so rationally. Although the objectives are not mutually exclusive, it is difficult to pursue ...
... Objectives Building a strong, professional judiciary as an independent political institution Judicial modernization as a goal in itself or to meet rising demands for greater quantity, different quality of services Strengthening the ...
... objectives pursued and the various origins of and interests behind them. 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 ...
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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 |