Due to the public health crisis related to the spread of Covid-19 (Coronavirus), all in situ activities organized by the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) are being rescheduled. We will announce virtual activities designed to safely contribute to and sustain the discussion that JSCA encourages soon. We have taken this step in order … Read more
In commemoration of International Women’s Day, JSCA reiterates its commitment to gender equality and the eradication of violence against women in the justice systems of Latin America and the Caribbean. This year, we have decided to focus on femicide. World Health Organization data show that mistreatment of women is the social phenomenon that takes the … Read more
On March 2, 2020, Santiago Pereira Campos (Uruguay) and Florencia Ratti Mendaña (Argentina) began their two-week research internship at Osgoode Law School in Toronto, Canada. The two were selected through the 2019 competition that JSCA and York University organized with the financial assistance of Global Affaires Canada. The interns were greeted by Associate Dean and … Read more
APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED FOR THIS POSITION. The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) is an international agency created by the inter-American system that supports justice system modernization processes in the region. The Center announces that it is currently hiring one journalist. The individual hired will be responsible for: The development of … Read more
The Justice Studies Center of the Americas is an independent technical agency of the Organization of American States (OAS). Its mission is to support the modernization of justice systems in the region. To that end, it develops training and empirical research. The Center is headquartered in Santiago de Chile. JSCA created the Observatory of Civil … Read more
The Training Area of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) has published its schedule for 2020. The courses are open to anyone interested in topics related to civil and criminal justice reform, judicial government, institutional management, access to justice, dispute resolution methods, at-risk groups, gender and justice. The training programs include both virtual … Read more
Human Rights Day is celebrated every December 10th to commemorate the date that the United Nations General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The importance of this historic moment lies in the proclamation of the existence of inherent rights for all people equally regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnic origin, language, … Read more
In the context of the project Dialogue on the legal protection of the rights to health, education, work, social security and a healthy environment in Latin American and Caribbean countries coordinated by JSCA and the DIRAJUS project, which is funded by the German Cooperation Agency GIZ, the main findings of the publication of the same … Read more
In Volume II of the collection Comparative studies on civil justice reforms, the authors address the experiences of civil judicial reform in Australia and the Canadian province of Quebec. The first volume in the series focused on the experiences of Germany, Spain and Uruguay. This publication is composed of four reports. The first is a … Read more
On Friday, November 15, 2019, the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) will celebrate its 20th anniversary. JSCA was created in 1999 by resolution of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) at the recommendation of the Meeting of Ministers of Justice or other Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas … Read more
