The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (CEJA), together with the German Federal Foreign Office, successfully implemented the first edition of the course “Investigating Corruption by Following the Money” for the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Designed by CEJA in 2024, the program includes modules on economic crimes, investigation and prosecution of economic criminality, regional regulation, the importance of forensic auditing,…
CEJA meets with President of the Constitutional Court of Peru
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 7,000 pending cases and approximately 6,000 new cases submitted each…
Colombia: CEJA leads workshop to strengthen Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods
The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (CEJA), in collaboration with Colombia’s Ministry of Justice and Law and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, organized a workshop to present key recommendations to strengthen Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods (ADR) in Latin America, with a focus on Colombia. The event brought together more than 30 officials from the ADR Directorate and the Vice Ministry of…
CEJA Board of Directors elects new officers
The 58th session of the Board of Directors of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (CEJA) was held last December and was attended by board members María Victoria Rivas (President, Paraguay), Benjamín Berger (Vice President, Canada), Jenny Murphy (United States), Cecilia Barrios (Guatemala), Nadia Franco (Panama), Nicolás Soler (Argentina) and Bruno Novoa (Peru). During the meeting, the new Council authorities were elected for the…
Organization of American States (OAS) commemorates JSCA’s 25th anniversary and plans to strengthen its collaborative work with other OAS bodies and increase its visibility and institutional sustainability.
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 resolution recognizes JSCA as “the OAS agency specializing in justice systems” and states that JSCA is “recognized by the States and judicial systems for its technical excellence in the promotion, training…