On Thursday, April 11, JSCA Executive Director Nataly Ponce Chauca presented the institution’s 2023 Annual Report to the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS). At the event, Nataly Ponce provided information on the most relevant projects developed by JSCA last year, including “Citizen and Participatory Survey for the Design of the Criminal Prosecution Policy of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Chile,” in…
JSCA team travels to Bogota as part of the project “Civil and family dispute resolution and its effectiveness in Colombia and Peru”.
In March, the JSCA team traveled to Bogotá to meet with the Colombian and Peruvian consulting teams working on the project “Civil and Family Dispute Resolution Mechanisms and Their Effectiveness in Colombia and Peru. The project has gathered information on the functioning of Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (ADR) through interviews with authorities, officials and users of mediation and conciliation centers. JSCA’s consulting teams in both…
Regional Workshop: Procedural Congestion in the Americas: Status, Best Practices and Future Prospects
Watch the Video of the Conversation (in Spanish) A historical challenge for the region’s judicial systems is the proper management of procedural congestion. Since its inception, JSCA has focused on the need to generate comparable data on judicial production, resolution rates and procedural congestion rates in justice institutions as central issues in the agenda and discussions on the efficiency of justice institutions[1]. The control of…
JSCA to train more than 800 officials of the Mexico City Judicial Branch
More than 800 officials from the Mexico City Judicial Branch (PJCDMX) will receive specialized JSCA training on civil and family justice reforms in the Americas, with an emphasis on the installation and strengthening of orality in both areas. The courses are part of a program supported by the Judicial Studies Institute of the PJCDMX, the Commission for the Implementation of Civil, Commercial and Extinction of…
OAS member states elect new member of the JSCA Board of Directors
The member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) elected a new member of the Board of Directors for the Justice Studies Center of the Americas from 2024 – 2026 by means of a vote at its General Assembly. JSCA is a technical body based in Santiago, Chile, whose mission is to provide technical support to OAS member countries in the process of reforming…