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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... staff. The implied solutions—higher budgets, more equipment, courtroom reorganizations and staff replacement or training—were either welcomed by judicial leadership or accepted because they did not seem to imply any radical change in ...
... staff; made copies by hand or with hoarded, ragged carbon paper; entered filings manually in large ledgers; stored documents on a few inadequate shelves or on the floor; and kept evidence in the judges' chambers or in disorganized ...
... staff. Where space and budgets are limited, the judge may work in the same room as his staff. Only in countries using oral trials (Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador) were there separate facilities in which to hold these and other hearings ...
... staff rarely received any training for their tasks, simply learning on the job, they were critical to maintaining whatever order existed. It was staff's memories and personalized systems that allowed documents to be located and kept the ...
... staff, their responsibilities, and how paperwork would be processed. Laws might stipulate the use of paper registries (libros de registro) to record filings, of physical (and not electronic) expedientes, or even the way the latter would ...
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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 |