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In “Reform to the Criminal Justice System in Chile: Evaluation and Chal- lenges,” Chilean Professors Blanco and Rojas (with the translation help of Loyola University Chicago Adjunct Professor Richard Hutt) describe with admi- rable clarity and succinctness the dramatic reforms currently under way in the Chilean Criminal Justice system. What they do not—and cannot—communicate in an article, is the great sense of momentous change which one gets from talking with lawyers and law students in Santiago, Chile. My colleague, Bill Elward,†† and I experienced this sense of change during our June 2004 visit. We had been invited by Professors Rojas and Blanco to teach trial advocacy skills to law stu- dents of Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago and also to practicing lawyers who were pursuing a certificate program there. Alberto Hurtado is leading the way in preparing its students and practicing lawyers to effectuate the reforms.Having just said that this great excitement and hopefulness cannot be commu- nicated by writing about it—nevertheless, I will try to capture the feeling in this article. I will then comment on some of the reforms described in the article by drawing some comparisons with the American system and the Italian experience in the reform of its criminal code, which began in 1988. |
