Sandra Araneda The initiative offers an opportunity to analyze six areas with high levels of legal conflict, such as housing and land, consumer affairs, healthcare, finances, domestic relationships and community life. As a way of examining the development of conflicts, the risk level of the population and barriers to access to justice in the region, and in … Read more
On November 5, Germany’s Federal Ministry of Foreign Relations will hold a digital event to present the project “Promoting the Rule of Law in the Northern Triangle.” The purpose of the event is to analyze and raise the profile of challenges in the area of justice and security in the Northern Triangle of Central America, … Read more
The document aligns with the gender equality policies that are being promoted for the region. Encouraging research by women on the performance of procedure systems to improve access to justice based on the importance of gender parity is one of the goals of the “Women in Procedure” project created through a collaboration agreement between the … Read more
The vote of the OAS General Assembly determined that Benjamin Berger, María del Carmen Maldonado and María Victoria Rivas will join the board beginning January 1, 2021 and will serve through 2023. In the context of the 50th Regular Session of the General Assembly, the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) elected … Read more
-Judicial dispute resolution can be an effective response to the increase in disputes that threaten to undermine the performance of justice administration systems. In response to the clear backlog of cases that justice services and courts in the Americas must move through and the increase in litigiousness caused by the global pandemic, the Justice Studies … Read more
The Justice Studies Center of the Americas is launching a competition designed to measure the impact of civil procedure reforms on the practice of law in the region in the context of the program “Improving Access to Civil Justice in Latin America,” which JSCA is developing with the support of Global Affairs Canada. The goal … Read more
International Day of Sexual and Reproductive Rights is commemorated each year on September 28. The date -which was established in 1990 in the context of the V Feminist Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean- was mainly focused on legal and social decriminalization of voluntary interruption of pregnancy. It is important to remember that sexual … Read more
What is the reality of security and justice in Latin America and the Caribbean? How much does crime cost people? Can prosecutor’s offices and the police be more efficient? These are just some of the topics addressed in the new publication by the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) and Universidad Alberto Hurtado entitled … Read more
The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) and the Universidad Alberto Hurtado (UAH) Law School present a new Spanish-language publication entitled Trial by Jury in Chile: A Pending Discussion for Strengthening the Adversarial Criminal Justice System and Its Public Legitimacy. The study was written by JSCA Training Director Leonel González, UAH Law Professor Rafael … Read more
The fifth version of the Inter-American Training Program on Civil Justice Reform was launched at an event that featured the participation of Executive Director Jaime Arellano and staff members from the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA). The program is being organized by JSCA and developed in the context of the project “Improving Access … Read more
