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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... suggesting that such details might have been left for a later stage, when the basics of the new procedures were ... suggestion offered by one of the promoters of the Colombian reforms, after he saw how the code worked in fact. 27. The ...
... suggest the enormous challenges of introducing a new proceeding in a still-unreformed environment. Nevertheless, the ... suggested that despite the dubious quality of the evidence, the state needed and thus got a conviction to prove the ...
... suggest, they are far from. 29. See Riego (2002) for a summary of the findings in the first four evaluations. J. E. Vargas (2005) provides an up-to-date but less detailed summary of the entire evaluation effort. 30. fores (For de ...
... suggest, they are far from achieving all they promised, and there is clearly room for improvement. Some of the disappointments only reflect the need for more time, but others may indicate more fundamental problems. In the remainder of ...
... suggested reinstating the instructional judge to introduce more accusatorial elements! Colombians characterize the extraordinary powers accorded to their prosecutors (Wscales) as an inquisitorial holdover. The determination of what is ...
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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 |