Reforming Justice - A Journey to Fairness in Asia

Informationen zum Autor Livingston Armytage is a specialist in judicial and legal reform, advising governments, courts and international development agencies on improving justice systems around the world. He has worked in senior roles on substantial reform programs for major development agencies in many developing countries from Afghanistan and Azerbaijan to Haiti, Palestine, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea. Klappentext Livingston Armytage explores how justice reform can be made more effective. Zusammenfassung Livingston Armytage argues that justice reform should focus on promoting fairness and equity! as opposed to economic growth and good governance. Finding a balance between utility and aggregate wellbeing on the one hand and equity and individual wellbeing on the other is at the crux of this important book. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Judicial Reform Enterprise: 2. History and context; 3. Nature of reforms and critique; 4. Theories of reform; 5. Empirical evidence; Part II. Evaluation: 6. Development evaluation; 7. Evaluating judicial reform; Part III. Case Studies of the Asian Reform Experience: 8. ADB's judicial reform experience in Asia: 1990-2007; 9. AUSAID'S program in Papua New Guinea: 2003-7; 10. Voices of the Asian Pacific experience; 11. Conclusions; Annex A. Frameworks of measurement; Annex B. Empirical methodology and justification; Annex C. AUSAID inventory of documents; Annex D. Sample extracts of PNG newspapers: 2003-4.

Product details

• Authors: Livingston Armytage, Armytage Livingston
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2012
• EAN: 9781107013827
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01382-7
• No. of pages: 382
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, Human Rights, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Public International Law, Political science and theory, International human rights law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law