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Envisioning Reform : Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America

Judicial reform became an important part of the agenda for development in Latin America early in the 1980s. This book aims to turn the spotlight on the problems in the movement toward judicial reform in Latin America and to suggest ways to keep the movement on track toward achieving its multiple, though often conflicting, goals.
eBook, English, ©2007
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., ©2007
1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations
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Criminal justice reform : human rights, crime control, and other unlikely bedfellows
Judicial modernization : increasing the efficiency and efficacy of court actions
Developing a professional, institutionally independent judiciary
Access to justice : legal assistance, special courts, alternative dispute resolution and beyond
Strengthening the judiciary's role as a check on other branches of government
Judicial reform as a problem of focus : why the parts don't add up to a coherent whole
Improving the knowledge base for judicial reform programs
Toward a new strategic model
A political agenda for reforming the reforms
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