Sandra Araneda 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 of the competition is to encourage multidisciplinary research on how…
Sandra Araneda 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 and reproductive rights have since been recognized in international instruments…
Sandra Araneda 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 “Effective criminal prosecution and the rule of law: Challenges and…
Sandra Araneda 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 Blanco Suárez and Santiago Guarantee Court Judge Fernando Guzmán Fuenzalida.…
Sandra Araneda 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 to Civil Justice in Latin America” with the technical and…
