Click here for search results

Seminars, Courses and Brown Bag Lunches

 

Listed below are the seminars and brown-bag lunches and staff training workshops organized by the Law and Justice Institutions Thematic Group. All sessions are open not only to Bank staff but to others in the development community interested in law and development and related subjects.

Where reports, papers or studies discussed at a seminar or workshop is available on the internet, a links is provided. Clicking on a speaker’s name that is highlighted brings up the abstracts of those articles he or she has written which appear in the annotated bibliography. Where a video tape of a session is available, that session is marked by a **.

 


  I. Seminars and Brown Bag Lunches Organized by the Thematic Group

Title

Speaker(s)

Date

 

World Bank Internal Justice Reform 101 Course


 

Agenda

Agenda

 

February 23-25, 2009


Judicial Reform in Egypt:
A Status Report

Chair: Heike P. Gramckow
Senior Counsel, LEGJR

James T. Grabowski
Vice President for Field Operations
Amideast

Presentation

December 2, 2008

The Impact of Constitutional Social and Economic Rights in the Private Sector: Law and the Regulation of Pharmaceutical Products in South Africa 

Chair:  Varun Gauri
Senior Economist, DECRG
The World Bank

Jonathan Berger
Senior Researcher and Head of Policy and Research,
AIDS Law Project in South Africa

Presentation

October 30, 2008

Justice Reform and Institutional Culture: How to Understand and Change Court Culture
Dr. Brian J. Ostrom
Principal Court Research Consultant
National Center for State Courts

Matthew Kleiman, Senior Court Research Associate
National Center for State Courts

Dr. Charles W. Ostrom, Jr.
Professor of Political Science
Michigan State University
Presentation
May 7, 2008
Reforming Judicial and Legal Institutions: The Experience and Agenda of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Chair:  Klaus Decker, LEGJR
Description

Michel Nussbaumer
EBRD Legal Transition Team Leader
and
Frederique Dahan, Sr. Counsel, EBRD
Presentation
EBRD Law in Transition Website

February 25, 2008

Legal Empowerment through Technologies, Popular Culture and Interconnectivity: The Example of the Proyecto Acceso

James Cooper
California Western School of Law,
San Diego, CA

August 2, 2007
Enforcing Contracts: New Findings from Doing BusinessMelissa Johns, Investment Policy Specialist, Doing Business Project; and Sabine Hertveldt, Private Sector Development Specialist, CICDB, World BankOctober 5, 2006
Resolving Disputes about Land: Lessons from Timor-LesteJames T. Thomson, Senior Associate, ARD, Inc.September 21, 2006
Monitoring the Impact of Justice Reform: Early Lessons from PNG & Cambodia

Livingstone Armytage, Sr. Counsel, Legal and Judicial Reform, UNDP, Phnom Penh, and Director, Centre for Judicial Studies  
Paper

September 19, 2006

Reinventing Police Assistance in the 21st Century

Chair: Rick Messick, PRMPS

Mark Kroeker, Police Adviser for the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
Doug Bayley, Professor of Criminal Justice, SUNY, Albany
Jan Stromsen, Vice President, National Center for State Courts, and Executive Director, International Programs Division
July 18, 2006

Reflections on Combating Corruption

Chair: Sanjay Pradhan, PRMPS

Professor Michael Johnston, Professor of Political Science, Colgate University

Short Bio

June 27, 2006
A Generic Management Information System for Courts?National Center for State CourtsMay 25, 2006
Rule of Law Programming in Post-Conflict Countries: Lessons Learned in Multi-dimensional UN Peacekeeping Operations

Scott Carlson, Director Europe and Eurasia, Chemonics International
Ian Bannon, Manager, Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Team (SDV)
Presentation

 

May 23, 2006
Controlling Grand Corruption: The Nigerian Experience

Nuhu Ribadu, Executive Chairman, Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
Presentation

 

May 19, 2006
A Conversation with the Chairman of Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation CommissionJerome VerdierMay 16, 2006
Enforcement of Judgments-The French Approach to the Bailiffs Profession Based on the Liberal Model

Paul Rochard, President of the French National Chamber of Bailiffs Bernard Menut, Secretary of the International Bailiffs Union Presentation

 

April 25, 2006
Building the Rule of Law in Iraq

Sermid Al-Sarraf, Executive Director, International Institute for the Rule of Law. Presentation

Short Bio

April 13, 2006
Technical Implementation of the UN Convention Against Corruption: Challenges Facing Multilateral OrganizationsDr. Stuart C. Gilman, Head, Anti-Corruption Unit and The Global Programme Against Corruption, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)March 22, 2006
The United Nations Convention Against Corruption: An Overview and Status Report on Its ImplementationDimitri Vlassis, Division for Treaty Affairs, United Nations Office on Drugs and CrimeFebruary 2, 2006
Better Access to Justice Through Small Claims Courts

John Stacey, Head of Civil and Family Procedures Branch, HM Courts Service, United Kingdom
Robert W. Tobin, Consultant, National Center for State Courts, United States

January 31, 2006
Judicial Reform:  An Insider's ViewThimjo Kondi, President, Albanian Supreme CourtNovember 14, 2005
Redesigning Peru's Criminal Justice SystemRaul Callirgos Velarde, Ministry of Justice, PeruNovember 8, 2005
Rule of Law Programs in IraqKaren Hanrahan, Rule of Law Coordinator, U.S. Embassy, BaghdadOctober 25, 2005
Judicial and Legal Reform in Asia: The Asia Foundation's ExperienceErik Jensen and Debra Ladner, The Asia FoudationOctober 19, 2005
Making The Law Accessible and Enforceable: How Laws Can Help to Address the Forest Governance Challenge

Mohammed Bekhechi, Nalin Kishor, Guiseppe Topa
Presentation

September 12, 2005
Intellectual Property and Development: Findings from Recent ResearchProfessor Keith Maskus, University of ColoradoJuly 29, 2005
Two Perspectives on Justice Reform: The Ministry of Justice and the Judiciary

Pim Albers, Dutch Ministry of Justice
Presentation

Judge Dory Reiling
Presentation

June 8, 2005
Benchmarking and Evaluation of Judicial Systems: The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice

Pim Albers (Dutch Ministry of Justice)
Roland Eshuis (Research and Documentation Center of the Dutch Ministry of Justice)
Click HERE to read the report.
For further information on the CEPEJ's activities, please have a look at their website:
http://www.coe.int/cepej

June 7, 2005
The Role of Notaries in Civil Law Systems - Some Insights from the French NotaryJacques Pourciel, High Council of the French Notary
Presentation (French)
June 6, 2005
Publicity of Security RightFrédérique Dahan, Senior Counsel at the EBRD -  Presentation ; Document 1; Document 2May 17, 2005
Women’s Rights, Empowerment & the Rule of Law: Initiatives in Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin AmericaDavid Vaughn, Chief of Party, USAID Women’s Legal Rights Initiative;
Mary Theisen, Deputy Chief of Party;
Lyn Beth Nylon, Legal Specialist;
Lelia Mooney, Legal Specialist
March 30, 2005
An Update on the Legal Modernization Initiative  March 17, 2005
Reforming the Rule of Law: A Necessary Prerequisite for Successful ProjectsRachel Kleinfeld Belton, Director, Truman National Security Project & Senior Consultant, Booze Allen HamiltonFebruary 17, 2005
Judicial Reform in France: New ReportM. Jean Claude MagendieJanuary 27, 2005
Judicial Reform in Challenging Environments: The Experience in PalestineBill Davis, Principal, DPK ConsultingJanuary 10, 2005
Corruption and Anti-Corruption Programs in Latin America: Lessons from Argentina's Anti-Corruption OfficeNicolas Raigordsky, Anti-corruption Office, ArgentinaNovember 9, 2004
Control Over Prosecutors Corrupts Politicians: Cross-Country Evidence Based on a New Set of Indicators
Presentation
Prof. Dr. Stefan Voigt, University of Kassel, GermanyOctober 5, 2004
Untangling the Enforcement Knot:
Evidence from Peru
Document Presentation
Sandra Elena and Keith Henderson, IFES September 16, 2004

Caseflow Management - A Brief Guide to Delay Reduction
Power Point Presentation
Summary of Presentations - in Spanish

David C. Steelman, National Center for State Courts

June 24, 2004

World Bank/EU/Council of Europe workshop on Justice Sector Performance Indicators.

Background Documents
Readings on "Justice Sector Performance Indicators"
Council of Europe
Pilot-Scheme for Evaluating Judicial System
Explanatory Note
Council of Europe
Recommendations and Resolutions

Marco Fabri & Philip Langbroek Background Report on Delay in Judicial Proceedings)
Pim Albers (Background Report on Evaluating Judicial Systems)

Why Governance Indicators - Poul Engberg-Pedersen
Vera Institute
Measuring Progress Toward Safety and Justice
Chris Stone (
Guide) (Summary)
The Council of Europe's Experience
   Alexey Kojemiakov
   Gianluca Esposito
The EU's Experience
   Hans Rundegren
   Lambert Schmidt
   Florence Schmidt-Pariset

March 30, 2004

Crime and the Investment Climate:
Its Impact; What Can be Done

Sanjay Kathuria, Lead Economist, LCSPE Rina H. Oberai, Caribbean CMUJanuary 22, 2004
Informal Property in Peru: Revealing the Mystery of CapitalVictor Endo, Consultant World Bank's Peru Urban Land Tiling ProjectDecember 18, 2003

Purging Institutions of Corruption: A Comparative Analysis of Programs in New York City and Chicago

Ms. Lydia SegalNovember 07, 2003
Beyond Rule of Law Orthodoxy: The Legal Empowerment AlternativeStephen Golub (International Development and Law, School of Law, University of California – Berkeley)November 06, 2003
Judicial Reform: Asian Perspectives
Ms. Xin, Chunying, Standing Member, Law Committee of the National People’s Congress (China) Mr. Ibrahim Assegaf, Managing Director, PT Justika Siar Publika (Indonesia) Ms. Shahla Zia, Joint Director, Aurat Foundation (Pakistan)November 4, 2003
Judicial Reform in the West Bank and Gaza: Recent DevelopmentsWilliam Davis, Principal, DPK ConsultingSeptember 17, 2003
Developing Indicators of Judicial Performance: The Philippines' Experience - PRESENTATIONRosemary Hunter, Dean, Griffiths University Law School, BrisbaneJune 06, 2003
Legal and Judicial Reform from the Bottom Up: Lessons from PeruEnrique Ghersi, Director, CITELApril 30, 2003
Fighting Corruption in Latin America:
A Judge's View

Judge Ricardo M. Rojas, Argentina

Click  here for a summary of Judge Rojas' talk. Click  here for a copy of the opinion he wrote (in Spanish) of the case he discussed.
Click   
herefor an analysis (in Spanish) of the implications of the Piso case.

April 29, 2003
Reforming Informal Justice Systems: Lessons from Peru and ColombiaJulio Faundez: Professor of Law, Warwick University (Julio.Faundez
@Warwick.Ac.Uk
)
April 2, 2003

Monitoring and Evaluating ADR Programs

Andrew Rowe, GHK International and David Fairman, MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program

 

March 26, 2003
The Myth of Settlement (PDF 1.6M)
Carl Baar: Professor, Department of Politics, Brock UniversityMarch 13, 2003

The IDB Experience in Justice Reform
(a) 
 Presentation on : Objectives & Limitations
(b) Presentation on: IDB Experience in Justice Reform

Christina Biebesheimer, Principal Specialist on Modernization of the State, IDB
Mark Payne, Social Development Specialist in the State, Governance and Civil Society Division, IDB
February 12, 2003
The American Experience with Open Government LawsEleanor Smith, Zuckerman, Spaeder LLP Dec. 17, 2002
Judicial Reform in Pakistan: The Asian Development Bank’s ProjectWilliam Davis, DPKDec. 6, 2002
Teaching Judges Economics:The U.S. ExperienceFrank Buckley, Professor, George Mason University Law School, and Director, Law and Economics CenterNovember 14, 2002
The Political Economy of Judicial IndependenceMatthew C. Stephenson, Harvard UniversityOctober 30, 2002
Governance Reform in the Arab World: The UNDP's Program on Governance in the Arab Region (POGAR)
Adel Abdellatif, Regional Coordinator, POGAROctober 17, 2002

The Political Economy of the Andean Governance Crisis

Andres Solimano (PDF 110K)
Regional Advisor,
UN Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean
October 16, 2002
Evaluating Judicial Reform: ABA/CEELI's Judicial Reform Index

Click HEREto access the 9 reports prepared.

Scott Carlson, Director, American Bar Association's Central and Eastern Europe Program

October 15, 2002

Empirical Research on Courts[PDF 1.5M]Recent Work on IndiaRobert Moog
North Carolina
State University
May 6, 2002
Judicial Reform: The Eight Year Experience in TanzaniaJudges Nan Shuker and Susan Winfield, Superior Court, District of ColumbiaApril 11, 2002
Strengthening Public Participation and Access to Information in Government Decisionmaking in Transition Countries
Malcolm Russell-Einhorn, Abt Associates; Vedat Milor, Georgia Tech University; Jeffrey Lubbers, Washington College of LawDecember 4, 2001
Simplifying Business Regulation: One Stop Licensing LawsCindy Clement, IRIS Center, University of MarylandNovember 29, 2001
Access to Justice: What Can We Learn from the Developed Countries' Experience"Speaker: Professor Erhard Blankenburg, Free University, AmsterdamOctober 26, 2001
New Approaches to Access to JusticeEd Rekosh, Executive Director, Public Interest Law InitiativeSeptember 6, 2001
Reforming the Court System: The Australian Experience Professor David Weisbrot President, ALRC July 25, 2001
Freedom of Information Laws: Emerging Trends & Lessons LearnedTom Blanton
Executive Director
National Security Archives
May 15, 2001

Fostering Accountable Government: Whistleblower Protection, Freedom of Information, Asset Disclosure

Keith Henderson and Robert Vaughn, AU Law School and Tom Devine, Government Accountability Project February 15, 2001

Reforming Public Institutions: The Peruvian Experience

Edgardo Mosquera, former Minister of the PresidencyFebruary 22, 2001
Legal and Judicial Reform: A Personal View from the FieldStephen Murdoch, consultant, Cambodia Court Training ProjectApril 10, 2001
The Philippine Experience with Traditional Dispute Resolution MechanismsRownea Morales, University of the Philippines April 9, 2001
Lessons from the Law-Related Work of the Ford FoundationMary McClymont, Ford FoundationOctober 12, 2000
Reforming Judicial Systems: The Experience in El Salvador over the Past Two DecadesMargaret Popkin, Due Process of Law FoundationSeptember 8, 2000
Strengthening Parliament’s Role in the Accountability EquationJohn Uhr, Australian National University September 29, 2000
Improving the Lives of Children and Families: What Contribution Can the justice System MakeAmanda Finlay, Lord Chancellor’s Department September 22, 2000
Legal and Judicial Reform: Recipient PerspectivesDavid Peetrasek, International Council on Human Rights PolicyOctober 10, 2000
The Economic Consequences of a Weak Judiciary: Insights from IndiaWolfgang K.C. Kohling, Center for Development ResearchNovember 17, 2000

Regulating the Rules of the Game: Campaign Finance Laws in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

Robert Dahl, International Foundation for Electoral SystemsDecember 12, 2000

The Indian Constitutional Experience: Lessons in Writing an Enduring Pact between Citizens and their Government

Granville Austin May 11, 2000
Strategies for Judicial Reform

Mr. Livingston Armytage, Executive Director, Centre for Judicial Studies

April 25, 2000

Reforming English Civil Justice: A Market Strategy for Delivering Access to Justice

Peter Harris, Lord Chancellor's Department

April 20, 2000

Developments in Legal and Judicial Reform in East Asia

Mr. Simon Rice, Director, Law Foundation of New South WalesApril 4, 2000
Fostering Government Accountability: The Role of an OmbudsmanDean Gottehrer, former Ombudsman
March 6, 2000

Judges on Judicial Reform: U.S. Judges Experiences Advising Developing and Transition Countries

Judges Magnuson, Wallace, Messitte, Mihm, and PaineFebruary 16, 2000
Governance Issues in Pakistan: What Next? Ahmed Rashid, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy InstituteFebruary 4, 2000

Lessons from the Democracy Promotion Movement

Thomas Carothers, Vice President, Carnegie Endowment for Intenational PeaceJanuary 13, 2000

Reforming Criminal Justice Systems:

The Inter-American Development Bank's Experience

Lisa Bhansali, Inter-American Development BankDecember 9, 1999

The OECD Bribery Convention: A Progress Report

Mark Pieth, Professor, University of Basle

November 12, 1999

Constitutional Rule and Economic Development: The Critical Interaction of Culture and Institutions

Joseph Kalt, Professor, Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of GovernmentOctober 28, 1999

Building Legal Institutions in Transition Countries: The Ukrainian Experience

Vadym Zachosov and Volodymyr Matvieiev, Ukrainian ParliamentAugust 2, 1999

Problems in Creating Capital Markets to Facilitate Privatization in Post-Conflict Bosnia

Erik T. Huitfeldt, East West Management InstituteJuly 29, 1999
Using Survey Research to Evaluate Institutional Performance: The Case of the Judiciary Herbert Kritzer, Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Wisconsin-MadisonJuly 14, 1999

Can American Case Management Techniques be Exported?

Steven Flandersand Terry Dunworth, Abt AssociatesJune 29, 1999

Evaluating Legal Institutions: The Foreign Investor's Perspective

Maura Garych, and Clyde W. Fritz, March USA June 23, 1999

State of Federalism and Legal Reforms in Russia

Dr. Boris Topornin, Director, Russian Institute of State and LawMay 6, 1999

Bridging the Civil / Common Law Gap: The Canadian Experience

Josee Touchette andAlain Vauclair, Canadian Dept. of JusticeApril 29, 1999

Checking Government Power: The Experience of the Peruvian Ombudsman

Jorge Santistevan de Noriega, Defensor del PuebloApril 21, 1999
Governance & Financial Crisis: Lessons from East AsiaAsia Foundation representatives from Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, and the PhilippinesApril 12, 1999

Evaluating the Performance of Judges: The American Experience

(Memorandum on Techniques of Judicial Evaluation)

Roderic L. Woodson, Chair, Judicial Evaluation Committee, D.C. BarFebruary 18, 1999

Nations in Transit: Tracking Legal-Institutional Development in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

Adrian Karatnycky, Freedom House February 11, 1999

Libel Law and Anticorruption Initiatives

Herman Schwartz, Prof. of Law, American UniversityJanuary 21, 1999

Constitutionalism in Russia: The Constitutional Court and the Decentralization Process

Will Pomeranz, National Endowment for Democracy December 8, 1998
Causes and Consequences of Constitutional FormFrederick Schauer, Prof. and Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard UniversityNovember 19, 1998
Legal Technical Assistance: Exporting Competition Law to ECA CountriesDaniel Rubinfeld, Prof. of Law and Prof. of Economics, University of California at Berkley and Russell Pittman, U.S. Department of JusticeNovember 17, 1998
Constitutionalism in Africa: Successes and FailuresGerard Conac, Prof. and Director of Juridical and Political Studies of the African World, Pantheon-SorbonneNovember 12, 1998

Governance and Accountability

Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford UniversityNovember 10, 1998

Judicial Reform in the US: Myths and Realities

Deborah Hensler, Prof. of Dispute Resolution, Stanford Law SchoolNovember 5, 1998

Legal/Judicial Reform in Russia: Successes, Problems, Lessons Learned

Rusian G. Orekhov, Deputy Chief of Staff in the Administration of the President of Russia

October 28, 1998

Judicial Systems and Land Rights in Uganda

Lynn Khadiagala, University of Wisconsin

October 22, 1998
Corruption and Judicial/Institutional Reform in IndonesiaDoug Ramage, Asia Foundation October 21, 1998

Why People Obey the Law

Tom Tyler, Prof. of Psychology, New York UniversityOctober 14, 1998
Judicial Reform in Singapore Hamza Musa, Chief of Subordinate Courts, SingaporeOctober 14, 1998
Methods for Evaluating Judicial System PerformanceRobert M. Sherwood, International Business ConsultantSeptember 24, 1998

Judicial Reform in Civil Law Countries

Giuseppe Di Federico, Prof. and Director, University of Bologna Research Center for Judicial StudiesSeptember 4, 1998

Judicial Reform in Venezuela

Dra. Cecilia Sosa Gomez, Chief Justice,  Venezuelan Supreme Court

July 16, 1998
Institutional Pre-Requisites for an Urban Real Estate MarketJohn McLaughlin, Center for Property Studies, University of New BrunswickMay 14, 1998

II. Staff Training

Title Date Speakers Materials Available
The Nuts-and-Bolts of Judicial Reform

April 18-20, 2006

Click  here for Agenda with Speakers

Elements of Judicial ReformJanuary 11-14, 2005  Click HEREto view all materials available.
Recent Experience with Judicial Reforms: Lessons for Latin America:January 26, 2003Erik Jensen, Stanford Law School and the Asia Foundation; Richard E. Messick, Public Sector Group, World Bank 
Regulating Citizen-State Interactions:

The Role of Administrative Law in the United Kingdom
and the Netherlands

January 23, 2003

Philip Langbroek, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Utrecht University

Adam Tompkins, Fellow and Tutor in Law, St Catherine's College, Oxford University:

Malcolm Russell-Einhorn, Deputy Director, IRIS Center, University of Maryland:

"General Principles of Proper Administration and the General Administrative Law Act in the Netherlands"

General Administrative Law Act

Access to Justice: British and Dutch experiencesDecember 11, 2002Erhard Blankenburg, Free University (Amsterdam), Tamara Goriely, Commercial and Common Law Team, Law Commission (London) and Robert Rhudy, Executive Director, Maryland Legal Services Corporation

Erhard Blankenburg: Legal Aid in the Netherlands[PDF 121K]

Tamara Goriely: The English Approach to Access to Justice[PDF 281K]

England Slides[PDF 43K]

List of Readings [PDF 47K]

Legal and Judicial Reform in Asia: AusAID's ExperienceNov. 12, 2002Daniel Rowland, Law and Justice Advisor AusAID

Summary  [PDF 19K]
Statistics[PDF 1.1M]

Fairness vs. WelfareJune 25, 2002Louis Kaplow, Harvard Law School, Ko-Yung Tung, World Bank General Counsel and Vice President of the Legal Department, Lubomira Beardsley, World Bank Legal and Judicial Reform, Randi Ryterman, World Bank Public Sector Group in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.Introductory remarks by Ko-Yung Tung, Presentations of Kaplow, Beardsley, and Ryterman
Access to Justice and the Market for Legal ServicesJune 18, 2002Luba Zimanova Beardsley and Alexi Proskuryakov, World Bank; Gillian Hadfiled, University of Southern California Law School,; Peter Harris and Antonia Romeo, Lord Chancellor's DepartmentBeardsley & Proskuryakov presentation; Hadfield presentation; Sourcebook
The Justice System of the Federal Republic of Germany: Lessons for Developing and Transition Countries[PDF 7K]May 28, 2002Judge Ruediger Dietrich Tönnies, President of the Bremen District Court; Judge Rainer Voss, Presiding Judge at the Duesseldorf Regional Court and Honorary President, German Judges Association; Professor Dr. Klaus Roehl, Chair for Legal Sociology and Legal Philosophy, Ruhr-University BochumPresentations of Judges Tönnies & Voss[PDF 98K]
Case Management and the Enforcement of Judgments: French and AmericanApproaches   April 30, 2002Marguerite Pelier, Conseiller à la Cour d'Appel de Versailles *J. Frederick Motz, Judge, U.S. District Court for Maryland* Christine Capitaine, Vice-Président auprès du Tribunal de Grande Instance de Meaux * Bruce Cherkis, Wolpoff & Abramson .Christine Capitaine, The French Directions Judge[pdf 22k]

Automating Courts: Case Tracking and Management Systems

September 20, 2001Richard Van Duizend, National Center for State Courts; John Blackton, former director Egyptian judicial reform project; Robert Page, principal, DPK Consultants; Waleed Malik, World BankPAPER: USAID, Center for Democracy and Governance, Case Tracking and Management Guide
Alternative Dispute Resolution: What it is, How it can foster access to justice (in partnership with USAID) January 2000 Diana Chigas and David Fairman, Conflict Management Group, Deborah Hensler, Stanford Law School

Workshop report
Transcript of Workshop

Judicial Reform in South Asia: Case Management, Court Performance Standards, Political Economy

October 1999

Judge Nan Shuker, D.C. Superior Court, Erik Jensen, Stanford Law School, Madeline Crohn and Richard Van Duizend, National Center for State CourtsSet of papers

The Law and Economics of Judicial Reform

February 1999

Santos Pastor, Universidad Complutense, Madrid; Carlos Peña, Diego Portalis University, Santiago; Dan Rubinfeld, University of California at Berkley; Judge Douglas Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; Steven Shavell, Harvard University; Erik Jensen, Asian Foundation; Ed Buscaglia, Consultant

Video tape of proceedings; PREM Note 26    Other Selected Readings

Other References:

Modernization of the Judicial System

La Modernización de la Justicia

Notas sobre la justificación del uso de sistemas alternativos

Judicial Reform: The Lessons of Experience

May 1998

Jorge Correa, Diego Portalis University, Santiago; Linn Hammergren, LAC; Nancy Truitt, Tinker Foundation; Maria Dakolias, LEG; Waleed Malik, LAC; Katharina Pistor, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law; Thomas Bodewig, EU; Mary McClymont, Ford Foundation; Jennifer Widner, University of Michigan; Judge Peter Messittee, U.S. District Court for Maryland; Judge Nan Shuker, D.C. Superior Court

Set of papers plus edited transcript of proceedings

 


Updated as of:  February 19, 2009



Permanent URL for this page: http://go.worldbank.org/PKIV9F2WO0