Judicial Reform

• Reading 1: Hammergren - "Twenty-Five Years of Latin American Judicial Reforms: Achievements, Disappointments, and Emerging Issues" (.pdf)
• Reading 2: Prillaman - "Building a Healthy Judiciary" (Chapter 2) and "Chile's Coherent Approach to Judicial Reform" (Chapter 6) (.pdf)
  • Study Questions for Prillaman - Chapters 2 & 6
• Reading 3: Prillaman - "Argentina: Opposite Paths, Same Results" (Chapter 5) and "Judicial Reform and Democratic Decay" (Chapter 7) (.pdf)
  • Study Questions for Prillaman - Chapters 5 & 7
• Reading 4: Garro - "Access to Justice for the Poor in Latin America" (.pdf)
  • Study Questions
• A few articles on judicial reform (or lack thereof) in Argentina, Brazil, and Ecuador
  • Brazil legislates to clean up its judicial system
  • Quito grinds to a halt in protest at purge of judges
  • Reform from the ground up? A hunger strike by more than 14,000 Argentine prisoners demanding swifter trials
• Country Profile: Argentina
• Country Profile: Chile