Experience and regional impact
Commitment and experience in transforming justice systems in the Americas
Seminars and events
Find here the studies that the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) has conducted.
Reform of Criminal Justice and Penitentiary Systems
- Challenges and experiences in the development of a Criminal Prosecution Policy (2025)
- Violence and organized crime in prisons (2025)
- Side Event “Security of Judges and Prosecutors against Organized Crime in the Americas” (2024)
- International Webinar “Improving criminal prosecution and resocialization against gender violence in Latin America” (2022)
- Event: CEJA Week, virtual meetings to discuss “Progress and challenges in civil and criminal justice reforms (2022)
- CEJA participated in the Week of United Women, where the institution’s programs to raise awareness and train justice system operators on gender-based violence against women were highlighted (2022)
- VI International Conference on Jury Trials: “The power of the jury: The experience of Argentina and the world” (2021)
- Virtual Conference on Orality and Adversarial Justice in Latin America (2021)
- Assessment of testimonial evidence (2020)
- Principles of legality and opportunity in criminal proceedings. Debates and tensions (2020)
- Evidence Law and the Role of Judges in the Preliminary Hearing (2020)
- CEJA presents at Seminar on Gender and Criminal Justice in Chile and Central America: a look from the applicability of justice (2017)
- CEJA participated in the International Seminar “Criminal Procedure Reform in Uruguay, A Look from the Latin American Experience” (2016)
- II International Certificate “Judicial Reform in Latin America and the United States: Experiences, tools and good practices” (2013)
- Webinar Orality and hearing systems in non-criminal judicial processes (2012)
- International Seminars on Risk Assessment System and Supervision of Alternative Measures to Pretrial Detention (2011)
- Activities of the Alumni Network of the Inter-American Program for Training Trainers for Criminal Procedure Reform (2009)
- Virtual Forum “The Public Prosecutor’s Office in the Criminal Procedure Reform in Latin America: an overview of the state of the changes” (2005)
- CEJA Discussion Forum for documents in development: Public Defender’s Manual (2005)
- CEJA Discussion Forum on Documents in Development: Challenges of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Latin America (2005)
- Virtual Forum: “Information at the service of judicial governance. Information systems and judicial institutions within the framework of judicial reform” (2003)
- Virtual Forum on Criminal Justice Reforms in Latin America (2002)
Reform of Civil and Family Justice
- Regional Meeting: “Progress and Challenges of Civil Justice Reforms in the Americas” (2022)
- Event: CEJA Week, virtual meetings to discuss “Progress and challenges in civil and criminal justice reforms (2022)
- Conference: “Comparative Study of Civil Procedural Reforms in Latin America” (2021)
- VI Inter-American Training Program on Civil Justice Reforms in Latin America (2021)
- International Seminar: Civil Procedural Reforms in Latin America (2020)
- Presentations by CEJA coordinators at the “II Conference on the New Civil Procedure” (2016)
- Webinar Civil Procedural Reform and Public Policies (2013)
- Seminar Series “The transformation of Civil Justice in Ibero-America: content and challenges” (2010)
- CEJA Discussion Forum on Documents in Development: Civil Justice Reforms from a Public Policy Perspective (2005)
Judicial Independence
- Regional Conference: “Strengthening Judicial Independence in the Americas” (2022)
- Teaching law and administering justice. How to think about the training of judicial operators? (2020)
- Virtual Forum on Judicial Independence (2002)
Government and Judicial Management
- Envisioning a People-Centered Justice Research and Data Agenda for Latin America (2025)
- CEJA participated in the International Meeting on the Administration of Justice (2022)
- IV Seminar on Procedural and Evidence Law: The importance of evidence in the judicial process (2020)
- How does jury trial work? (2020)
- Webinar Civil Procedural Reform and Public Policies (2013)
- VIII Inter-American Seminar on Judicial Management (2010)
- Seminar – Workshop on Judicial Budgets (2010)
- CEJA Discussion Forum for documents in development: Tools for the design of judicial offices (2005)
- Virtual Forum on Judicial Governance (2004)
Judicial Information, Information Technologies and Transparency
- International Seminar “ICTs, Justice and Pandemic. Retrospective Analysis and Projection to Face Congestion” (2021)
- Digital justice from the lens of researchers (2020)
- Free Virtual Seminars: Access to Justice and Technology in Times of Coronavirus (2020)
- Challenges of virtual justice (2020)
- Justice Strategy in Times of COVID: “The Use of Virtual Tools in Hearings” (2020)
- Present and future possibilities of digital justice (2020)
- International Forum: Innovation in Justice (2020)
- Webinar on the results of the 2nd version of the Online Judicial Services Index, ISJL (2016)
- Presentation IX Version Index of Accessibility to Judicial Information on the Internet (IAcc) (2015)
- Webinar Judicial Services Index (2012)
Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
Access to justice, vulnerable groups and gender
- Building equality: challenges and strategies for access to justice (2025)
- International Seminar “Conflict resolution mechanisms: Dialogues for a new regional agenda” (2024)
- Side Event “Women’s rights in rural areas and their access to justice in the Americas” (2024)
- Side Event “Pathways to conflict resolution and vulnerable populations in the Americas” within the framework of the 54th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) (2024)
- Presentation of study: “Online Dispute Resolution (ORD) (2022)
- Event “Access to Justice for People in Situations of Mobility in Mexico and Central America” (2022)
- Defense of the Territorial Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Andean Countries (2022)
- Seminar Series “Access to Justice for Persons Deprived of Liberty in Southern Cone Countries” (2022)
- Seminar Series “Access to Justice for LGBTIQ+ People” (2022)
- CEJA participated in the Week of United Women, where the institution’s programs to raise awareness and train justice system operators on gender-based violence against women were highlighted (2022)
- Virtual seminar: “Access to justice for women victims of violence in Latin America” (2021)
- CEJA participated in the International Seminar: “Human Rights and Access to Justice: An approach to access to justice policies in Paraguay and the region” (2021)
- Free Virtual Seminars. Policies on access to justice and populations in vulnerable situations (2020)
- Free Virtual Seminars. Access to Justice, Gender Violence and Discrimination: Considerations in Times of COVID-19 (2020)
- Access to Justice: Challenges from the comparative and Latin American experience (2020)
- Virtual Seminar Series. Studies of Unmet Legal Needs in Latin America (2020)
- CEJA presents at Seminar on Gender and Criminal Justice in Chile and Central America: a look from the applicability of justice (2017)
- Webinar presenting the Final Report of the Project “Alternative Mechanisms to Promote Access to Justice in Latin America” (2016)
- Webinar Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (2013)
- Virtual Forum on the Judicial System and Racism against Afro-descendants (2004)
- Virtual Forum on Gender and Justice (2004)
Others
- Judicial Integrity: Strategies to Combat Corruption (2025)
- CEJA participated in the Ibero-American Judicial Summit, XXI edition 2023 (2023)
- CEJA participated in the conference on corruption reduction “Comprehensive anti-corruption approach in Latin America and the Caribbean: strategies and practices for prevention and prosecution” (2023)
- CEJA participated in the 53rd OAS General Assembly (2023)
- Subregional discussions for the formulation of the Strategic Plan 2022 – 2025 (2022)
- CEJA participated in the Summit of the Ibero-American Association of Judicial Schools (RIAEJ) (2022)
- CEJA participated in the OAS General Assembly (2022)
- Seminar and Litigation Manual in “complex environmental civil cases” (2021)
- Virtual Seminar: The Practice of Law in Latin America (2021)
- Webinar on Constitutional Dialogue between Chile and Canada (2021)
- Virtual Seminar “Justice and social context” (2021)
- Virtual seminar on comprehensive reparation of damages (2021)
- Forum for reflection on the impact of measures against COVID-19 on access to justice and ESCR in Latin America (2020)
- The challenges of justice in guaranteeing the right to health in times of pandemic (2020)