The development and reform of court organization and administration

✍ Scribed by Carl Baar

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 117 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-2075
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-162x(199910)19:4<339::aid-pad97>3.0.co;2-7

✦ Synopsis

Over the past decade, court reform has become an integral part of the process of economic, political and administrative development. This article will examine the causes and consequences of court reform's new role. After reviewing the key national and international actors and examining the political and economic assumptions used to justify this initiative, the article will then argue that (1) the priority of judicial reform in the development agenda is linked not only to a theory of the role of courts and law in political and economic development, but also to the emergence of the ®eld of judicial administration and court management, beginning in the United States and extending to a number of other countries; (2) the limitations built into the judicial administrative reforms implemented in OECD countries may be accentuated in the developing world; and (3) the very success of judicial administration as a ®eld allows it to be used, in con¯ict with its fundamental tenets, to advance the political agendas of OECD countries as well as developing and transitional regimes.