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Argentina
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Bahamas
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Brasil
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Chile
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Colombia
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Cuba
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Dominica
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Ecuador
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El Salvador
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Estados Unidos
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Granada
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Guatemala
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Guyana
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Haití
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Honduras
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Jamaica
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México
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Nicaragua
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Panamá
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Paraguay
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Perú
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República Dominicana
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Santa Lucía
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Surinam
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Trinidad y Tobago
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Uruguay
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Venezuela
Experience and Impact by States
Commitment and experience in transforming the justice systems of the Americas
Studies, Research, and Publications
Find here the studies that the Justice Studies Center of the Americas.
Reform of Criminal Justice and Penitentiary Systems
- Challenges for the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Latin America (2023)
- Effective Criminal Defense with a Gender Perspective in Latin America (2022)
- Penitentiary Systems and Criminal Enforcement in Latin America. A regional perspective and options for addressing the issue. (2021)
- Regional dialogue on access to justice and due process in the accusatory system . (2020)
- Journal No. 23 “Judicial Systems. A comprehensive perspective on the administration of justice (Criminal Analysis)”. Article “Latin American Experiences: Costa Rica” (2020)
- Adversarial Criminal Justice in Latin America: Towards Conflict Management and the Strength of the Law (2018)
- Project to monitor judicial reform processes in Latin America: Costa Rica Report 2016
- Justice Reforms in Latin America (2010)
- National criminal prosecution of international crimes in Latin America and Spain (2010)
- The implementation of orality in preliminary hearings in Costa Rica (2010)
- Justice Reforms in Latin America: Experiences of Innovation (2010)
- Precautionary Measures Programs: Experiences in balancing presumption of innocence and citizen security. (2010)
- Publication: Studies on Pretrial Detention and Results of the Inter-American Seminar. (2009)
- Monitoring Criminal Procedure Reforms: studies, publication and dissemination. (2009)
- Challenges of Pretrial Detention in Criminal Procedure Reform. (2008)
- Foundations for a Reform of Civil Justice. (2008)
- Report on Monitoring the Reform of Criminal Procedure in Costa Rica (2007 )
- Empirical Studies of the Criminal Procedure Reform Update Monitoring Project: study, publication and dissemination. (2006)
- Comparative report: Monitoring project of judicial reform processes in Latin America (2005 )
- Update of the follow-up studies of criminal procedure reforms (Bolivia, Costa Rica and Guatemala). (2005)
- Civil society and judicial reform in Latin America (2005)
- Comparative report: Monitoring project of judicial reform processes in Latin America: August (2003 )
- Follow-up study of criminal procedure reforms. (2002)
- Monitoring of criminal procedural reforms (2001)
- Juvenile criminal responsibility systems in Latin America (2000)
Reform of Civil and Family Justice
- Comparative Study on Civil Procedural Reforms in Latin America (2020)
- Improving Access to Civil Justice in Latin America (2019)
- Handbook for Conducting Hearings under the new Code of Civil Procedure of Costa Rica (2018)
- Manual of Oral Hearing Litigation in the New Civil Justice System of Costa Rica (2018)
- Exploratory research on civil execution in Latin America (2013)
- Contributions to a dialogue on access to justice and civil reform in Latin America (2013)
- Record of Orality in other subjects (2010)
- Trends in family law processes in Latin America (2006)
Judicial Independence and Integrity
- Independence of justice operators in the Americas. Regional situation and challenges for democratic defense (2023)
- Efforts to increase judicial independence and impartiality in Latin America (2016)
- Guidelines for promoting judicial independence and impartiality: Initiatives to improve judicial independence in Latin America: A comparative perspective (2002)
Government and Judicial Management
- Reform of Judicial Collection in Costa Rica (2012)
- Public defense system in Costa Rica (2010)
- The implementation of orality in preliminary hearings in Costa Rica (2008 )
- Report on Justice in the Americas 2008 – 2009 (2008)
- Report on Justice in the Americas 2006 – 2007 (2007)
- Journal No. 13 “Judicial Systems. A comprehensive perspective on the administration of justice (Supreme Courts)”. Article “The Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica, current organization and future perspectives” (2008)
- Report on Justice in the Americas 2004-2005. (2004)
- Report on Justice in the Americas 2002-2003. (2003)
- Journal No. 5 “Judicial Systems. A perspective on the administration of justice (Judicial management and administration of courts)”. Dossier “Reflections on the process of transformation of judicial management in Costa Rica”. Two relevant” (2003)
- Journal No. 1 “Judicial Systems. A perspective on the administration of justice (Crisis in judicial training?)”. Article “Program for the Improvement of the Administration of Justice in Costa Rica” (2002)
- Journal No. 1 “Judicial Systems. A perspective on the administration of justice (Crisis in judicial training?)”. Dossier “Judicial Training in America (Costa Rica)” (2002)
Judicial Information, Information Technologies and Transparency
- Issue No. 24 “Judicial Systems. A comprehensive perspective on the administration of justice (Justice and Technology)”. Article “Virtuality in preliminary hearings: the case of Costa Rica” (2021)
- State of Justice in Latin America under COVID-19: General measures adopted and use of ICTs in judicial processes (2020)
- Publication Third Version of the Online Judicial Services Index, ISJL (2018)
- Version 10 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2016–2017)
- Publication of the Second Version of the Online Judicial Services Index, ISJL (2016)
- Version 9 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2014)
- Version 8 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2012)
- Journal No. 16 “Judicial Systems. A comprehensive perspective on the administration of justice (The role of New Technologies in the Justice System)”. Article “The inclusion of technologies in judicial management, Judicial Branch of the Republic of Costa Rica” (2012)
- Version 7 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2011)
- Publication of the First Version of the Online Judicial Services Index, ISJL (2011)
- Version 6 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2010)
- Report: Good Practices in the use of new technologies in the Judiciary (2010)
- Version 5 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2009)
- Version 4 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2008)
- “Ibero-American Plan for Judicial Statistics” (PLIEJ).(2008)
- White Paper on the use of technology in justice. (2008)
- Version 3 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2007)
- Exchange action “Methodologies and tools for the improvement of the processes of registration, collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of statistical information”. (2006)
- Version 2 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2006)
- Civil society and judicial reform in Latin America (2005)
- Version 1 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2004)
- Civil society monitoring of the implementation of the Quebec Action Plan: Costa Rica Report (2004)
- Collection of statistical information and generation of justice indicators. (2004)
- Judicial indicators for Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico. (2004)
- Judicial Statistics, Seminar on Judicial Management. (2003)
- Second Inter-American Seminar on Judicial Management: Information at the Service of Judicial Governance: Evaluation of the judicial reform of Costa Rica, 1996-2002 (2003)
Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
- Costa Rica: Arbitration Regulations (2016)
- Publication on the Past, Present and Future of Collaborative Conflict Resolution in Costa Rica (2015)
- The implementation of ARAC programs in developing justice sectors (By William E. Davis and Razili K. D for Judicial Systems Magazine No. 15) (2011)
- Journal No. 2 “Judicial Systems. A comprehensive perspective on the administration of justice (Alternative Dispute Resolution)”. Article “Public Defense System in Costa Rica” (2002)
- Costa Rica: Conciliation Regulations (1998)
Access to justice, vulnerable groups and gender
- Effective Criminal Defense with a Gender Perspective in Latin America (2022)
- Regional dialogue on access to justice and due process in the accusatory system . (2020)
- Improving Access to Civil Justice in Latin America (2019)
- Publication “The dialogue on the jurisdictional protection of the rights to health, education, work, social security and a healthy environment in Latin American countries” (Health and Food Report) (2019)
Others
- The practice of law in Latin America: in search of a work agenda Vol. II (2022)
- The practice of law in Latin America: in search of a work agenda Vol. I (2021)
- Report on Compliance with the Mandates of the Summits of the Americas. (2006)