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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... reduced the impact of their commentaries. reader's guide to the subsequent discussion Figure 1 is the point of departure for the following discussion. In the next section, the five chapters address the origins and evolution of the ...
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... reduced by decriminalizing some actions and leaving others to administrative officials. Police and prosecutors often have. 6. For an overview of the European variants, see Damaska (1997), Fennell et al. (1995), Fionda (1995), Freccero ...
... the judge. These hearings were frequently ignored, or reduced to depositions conducted by low-level courtroom staff. 13. Stepán (1994, 187) reports, however, that depositions taken by 30 five approaches to judicial reform.
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