The President of Peru’s Constitutional Court (TC), Luz Pacheco Zerga, met with representatives from the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (CEJA). Participants included Bruno Novoa, President of CEJA’s Board of Directors, and Nataly Ponce, Executive Director of the institution. The meeting addressed the issue of case backlog at the Constitutional Court, with more than … Read more
In the framework of the 54th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), the member states of the organization approved the resolution that commemorates the twenty-fifth (25th) year of JSCA’s creation.
The Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, visited Chile at the invitation of the government between July 29 and August 9, where she held dialogues with State officials and representatives of international organizations and civil society on good practices and challenges regarding the independence of judges and lawyers and how … Read more
This week, 10 judges from the Judicial Branch of the State of Querétaro, Mexico, made a visit to Chile organized by JSCA, with the aim of learning about how orality works in family justice and acquiring useful knowledge to put it into practice in their country. , identifying and analyzing the main challenges that will … Read more
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.
Throughout 2023, two JSCA consulting teams formed by Mateo Vasquez Echeverri, Samed Mateo Vargas Montero, Leonardo García and Lizeth Johanna Ñungo Pérez (Colombia) and the Former Minister of Justice and Human Rights Eduardo Vega Luna, Federico Chunga Fiestas and Cristell Paola Casani Apaza (Peru) have traveled to six locations in these countries to meet with … Read more
After nine years, the Justice Studies Center of the Americas once again participated in the XXI edition of the Ibero-American Judicial Summit held in Lima, Peru. The Plenary Assembly was held between September 20 and 22, 2023 and brought together high level authorities of the judiciaries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Some of the … Read more
On September 26 and 27, the conference on reducing corruption, “Integral Anti-Corruption Approach in Latin America and the Caribbean: Strategies and Practices for Prevention and Prosecution”. Held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, this conference was organized by the German Federal Foreign Office. The event had two thematic areas: 1) Working on a comprehensive approach to … Read more
From April 24 to 27, 2023, a specialized team from the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) visited the city of Asunción in Paraguay to provide technical assistance to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of that country in order to implement the digital prosecutor’s file in the Specialized Unit for Economic Crimes and Anti-Corruption (UDEA). … Read more
The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) visited Chile’s Ministry of Justice and Human Rights and met with the minister Luis Cordero Vega to discuss opportunities for collaboration within the framework of the minister’s new administration. The meeting addressed the problem of organized crime in Chile and the challenges faced by the State in … Read more
