Reforming Justice

Reforming Justice calls for justice to be repositioned more centrally in evolving notions of equitable development. Justice is fundamental to human well being and essential to development. Over the past fifty years, however, overseas development assistance - foreign aid - has grappled with the challenge of improving the rule of law with underwhelming and often dismal results around the world. Development agencies have supported legal and judicial reforms in order to improve economic growth and good governance, but are yet to address mounting concerns about equity and distribution. Building on new evidence from Asia, Livingston Armytage argues that it is now time to realign the approach to promote justice as fairness and equity.

Spis treści:
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. ADBs judicial reform experience in Asia
1990–2007
9. AUSAIDS program in Papua New Guinea
2003–2007
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
2003–2004.