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Author: DeShazo, Peter

Title: Judicial Reform in Latin America - An assessment

Summary: With an eye toward evaluating and measuring progress in judicial reform in Latin America during the latest wave of the reform process, the Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., and the Justice Studies Center of the Americas1 (CEJA in Spanish) in Santiago, Chile, commissioned a series of papers on the topic that served as the basis for a conference held on June 7 in Washington, D.C. The individual studies, drafted by experts in the field, evaluated the judicial reform process in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guatemala. Using these papers as points of reference, CSIS and CEJA brought together a group of distinguished experts in the field of legal reform in Latin America from universities, policy centers, civil society organizations, and the international financial institutions to analyze the current state of the administration of justice in the region. The June 7 conference was organized along the lines of three panels: two dealing with the individual country studies, with the author of each paper making an oral presentation followed by comments from a United States–based expert, and a final panel of four leading authorities providing regional analysis. This report summarizes the work of each of the three panels in the conference and outlines the conclusions reached and the recommendations for policymakers. The purpose of the project throughout was a practical one aimed at clarifying a regional picture of progress to date, or lack thereof, in judicial reform and at providing concrete suggestions to meet the challenges still pending. Electronic links to the country papers are listed in the text of this report.

Details: Washington, DC: CSIS Americas Program, 2006. 25p.

Source: Policy Papers on the Americas, Volume XVII, Study 2: Internet Resource: Accessed on January 31, 2012 at http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/0609_latin_judicial_reform.pdf

Year: 2006

Country: International

URL: http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/0609_latin_judicial_reform.pdf

Shelf Number: 123887

Keywords:
Administration of Justice
Criminal Justice Systems (Latin America)
Judicial Reform (Latin America)