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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... recent visit to a Mexican state court, I interviewed the presiding judge in his chambers, while other court personnel conducted the oral “hearing.” Third, in both criminal and civil trials, many Latin American countries still required ...
... recently, any effort to evaluate those areas depended only on anecdotal evidence. Recently the Latin American Center ... recent evaluations suggest, they are far from. 29. See Riego (2002) for a summary of the findings in the first four ...
... recent European reforms, puts more prisoners into pretrial detention.39 Still, French instructional. 37. Certainly usaid's reliance on support to code-driven reforms is an example. In the commercial area, all donors have sponsored the ...
... recently to the U.S. criminal proceedings and thus cannot be seen as inherent to its basic structure. The real problem with the axiomatic principles is that they presume a solution as a consequence of formal structural change. As ...
... 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 the first attempt. Thus, after the ...
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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 |