‘Informal Institutionalisation’ (O’Donnell, 1996), or the prevalence of informal rules and norms over the formal institutions of political regimes (Me...
Five countries in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Mexico -- demonstrate arange of practices and ideas that fall along a conti...
Presentation made at the The 10th annual Conference and General Meeting of the International Association of Prosecutors held in Copenhagen, Denmark on...
Despite the general preference for clarity in the law, judicial opinions frequently produce unclear standards. While vagueness may result from the nat...
Over the past two decades, the countries of Central America have confronted soaring crime rates. Justice systems of dubious quality provide thin shiel...
Access to legal information is a pivotal pillar in justice reform and transparency. This report examines the role of the Centro de Estudio de Justicia...
Every appellate court employs a legal staff to assist the justices. Staff members mayinclude clerks of court, central staff attorneys, short-term in-c...
This paper seeks to understand what makes projects of legal and judicial reform so immune from critiques and from increasing evidence of their scant s...
In The Practice of Justice, William Simon addresses a widely recognized dilemma -- the moral degradation of the legal profession that seems to be the ...
Through the ethnographic exploration of the trial and murder conviction of military commissioners for their participation in the massacre of Rio Negro...
Both the war and criminal justice models are seen as too crude, particularly in their theory of deterrence, for responding to the problem of global te...
Part I of this Article discusses how, in their traditional role, fed- eral prosecutors have limited their function to case-processing and accordingly ...
Reseña:n August 1979, Time magazine featured an article titled,“Judging the Judges.”3 In that article, nearly 30 years ago,was a discussion about a nu...
Presentación argumentada de los beneficios de la titulización de derechos de créditos futuros para países en desarrollo. Los autores recuerdan que en ...
A workshop at the Fourth Annual Conference on Legal and Policy Issues in the Americas, held in San José, Costa Rica, on June 24-26, 2004, brought lawy...
La provincia de Neuquén ha concretado un importante avance legislativo con la sanción del nuevo Código Procesal Penal de la Provincia del Neuquén. Ca...
El fenómeno delictivo se ha apoderado del debate público desde hace mucho tiempo, adquiriendo especial énfasis en periodos de campañas electorales, gi...
Developed for practical field use, this handbook outlines a methodology that provides reliable quantitative, qualitative, and comparative information ...