... María Inés Bergoglio ... La obra de Florencio Sánchez, “M´hijo el dotor” presenta con trazos ... more ... María Inés Bergoglio ... La obra de Florencio Sánchez, “M´hijo el dotor” presenta con trazos vívidos lo que estos procesos implicaron en la vida de la gente común. ... Generaron la creencia de que el camino hacia el éxito está abierto para cualquier persona. ...
In 2008, Valerie Hans wrote an article that provided a research agenda for jury scholars, highlig... more In 2008, Valerie Hans wrote an article that provided a research agenda for jury scholars, highlighting the importance of comparative work, to understand how citizen participation interacts with the cultural, political, economic, and legal traditions in different countries. She emphasized the importance of studying newly emerging systems to observe whether legal consciousness and the public legitimacy of the legal system are affected when citizens participate as decision makers. This issue has been difficult to study with stable existing systems (Hans 2008: 292).Living in Cordoba, the Argentine province where lay participation had just started after a century and a half of constitutional disobedience, I found her remarks especially inspiring for my own work. The quick expansion of international research cooperation, by means of CRNs and IRCs gave me the forum for a rich exchange of research methodologies and findings with scholars coming from many other recently democratized countries, like Korea, Croatia, or Spain. Nevertheless, looking backwards I must admit, as she does, that lessons have been learned about how lay participation systems work in different countries but that comparative information is still scarce.Her presidential address is oriented to develop a comprehensive account of the global dissemination of institutions of lay participation in law (Hans 2017: 2). In line with this goal, I would like to reflect on the process of adoption of this institution in Argentina, trying to understand how our long history of failed attempts has finally resulted in a successful transplant. This experience could be useful to clarify the conditions under which a new legal institution is translated to the local legal culture (Langer 2007), and to discuss the contribution of socio-legal scholars to transplants.An Old Story of TransplantsLegal transplants have had an extended record in Argentina. The variety of sources that have inspired the Argentine legal culture and the contradictions found therein have been summarized by the legal philosopher (Ciuro Caldani 2006: 56) "Materially speaking, having our Constitution based on the American model, our Civil Law referring to the French paradigm speaking, our Procedural Law of Spanish influence, our Administrative Law with French references, and our Labor Law following the Italian model, and in turn, having a predominantly Italo-Hispanic population, obliges us to seek an adaptation, a synthesis, as yet unattained."The description made by Hans of the recent Argentinean experiences in lay participation in judicial decisions is thorough and complete. Therefore, I will focus in providing further details, which may be useful to understand how a century-long rejection to this initiative was finally abandoned.The roots of lay participation in judicial decision making are quite deep in Argentina, as the French liberal tradition that inspired the 1810 Revolution. Mariano Moreno, the secretary of the first independent government, proposed it for press crimes, in 1811. Understood as a guarantee against the abuse of state power, trial by jury can also be found in drafts proposed during the first Constitutional Assembly, held in 1813. These initial proposals took place in a context marked by liberal ideas and lack of confidence in judicial authorities.Other Latin American countries such as Venezuela and Mexico have shown a similar evolution,1 including lay participation in judicial making in their first Constitutional attempts, but with little or no presence in legal practices. Only Brazil, where lay participation started during the Portuguese rule, incorporated effectively the institution.2Trial by jury was also prescribed by the Argentine Constitutions of 1819 and 1826,3 as well as in the 1853 Constitution, the legal text that presided the national organization after many decades of civil war. The process of organizing political institutions was quite slow-the first Supreme Court Justices took their oath in 1863-and for some time courts continued to work as they used to during colonial times. …
El presente proyecto de investigacion se orienta a analizar la institucion del juicio por jurados... more El presente proyecto de investigacion se orienta a analizar la institucion del juicio por jurados, considerada como un punto estrategico para la observacion de los procesos de cambio que recorren la cultura juridica en Argentina. Frente a las multiples transformaciones y a los intensos procesos de reestructuracion de las relaciones sociales observados en el contexto latinoamericano y especialmente en Argentina, la necesidad de reconstruir la legitimidad de los jueces ante la opinion publica se ha vuelto impostergable, y el recurso a la participacion popular en el campo judicial aparece como un instrumento util para ello. Analizar la efectividad de esta estrategia para la legitimacion del poder judicial es uno de los objetivos del presente proyecto de investigacion. Abordar dicho objetivo implica, indagar en la relacion entre la administracion de justicia y diferentes actores sociales, especialmente los miembros de la profesion juridica y la opinion publica.Se explora igualmente la c...
Se revisan algunos factores que favorecen la extensión de prácticas corruptas en América Latina, ... more Se revisan algunos factores que favorecen la extensión de prácticas corruptas en América Latina, con especial atención a la situación argentina. Utilizando distintas fuen-tes datos, se documenta la extensión de prácticas corruptas de distintos niveles y se ob-servan sus efectos sobre el proceso de democratización. Se sostiene que el aumento de las denuncias, en parte posible gracias al mayor clima de libertad aportado por la demo-cratización, tiene ciertas consecuencias sobre este proceso.
... María Inés Bergoglio ... La obra de Florencio Sánchez, “M´hijo el dotor” presenta con trazos ... more ... María Inés Bergoglio ... La obra de Florencio Sánchez, “M´hijo el dotor” presenta con trazos vívidos lo que estos procesos implicaron en la vida de la gente común. ... Generaron la creencia de que el camino hacia el éxito está abierto para cualquier persona. ...
In 2008, Valerie Hans wrote an article that provided a research agenda for jury scholars, highlig... more In 2008, Valerie Hans wrote an article that provided a research agenda for jury scholars, highlighting the importance of comparative work, to understand how citizen participation interacts with the cultural, political, economic, and legal traditions in different countries. She emphasized the importance of studying newly emerging systems to observe whether legal consciousness and the public legitimacy of the legal system are affected when citizens participate as decision makers. This issue has been difficult to study with stable existing systems (Hans 2008: 292).Living in Cordoba, the Argentine province where lay participation had just started after a century and a half of constitutional disobedience, I found her remarks especially inspiring for my own work. The quick expansion of international research cooperation, by means of CRNs and IRCs gave me the forum for a rich exchange of research methodologies and findings with scholars coming from many other recently democratized countries, like Korea, Croatia, or Spain. Nevertheless, looking backwards I must admit, as she does, that lessons have been learned about how lay participation systems work in different countries but that comparative information is still scarce.Her presidential address is oriented to develop a comprehensive account of the global dissemination of institutions of lay participation in law (Hans 2017: 2). In line with this goal, I would like to reflect on the process of adoption of this institution in Argentina, trying to understand how our long history of failed attempts has finally resulted in a successful transplant. This experience could be useful to clarify the conditions under which a new legal institution is translated to the local legal culture (Langer 2007), and to discuss the contribution of socio-legal scholars to transplants.An Old Story of TransplantsLegal transplants have had an extended record in Argentina. The variety of sources that have inspired the Argentine legal culture and the contradictions found therein have been summarized by the legal philosopher (Ciuro Caldani 2006: 56) "Materially speaking, having our Constitution based on the American model, our Civil Law referring to the French paradigm speaking, our Procedural Law of Spanish influence, our Administrative Law with French references, and our Labor Law following the Italian model, and in turn, having a predominantly Italo-Hispanic population, obliges us to seek an adaptation, a synthesis, as yet unattained."The description made by Hans of the recent Argentinean experiences in lay participation in judicial decisions is thorough and complete. Therefore, I will focus in providing further details, which may be useful to understand how a century-long rejection to this initiative was finally abandoned.The roots of lay participation in judicial decision making are quite deep in Argentina, as the French liberal tradition that inspired the 1810 Revolution. Mariano Moreno, the secretary of the first independent government, proposed it for press crimes, in 1811. Understood as a guarantee against the abuse of state power, trial by jury can also be found in drafts proposed during the first Constitutional Assembly, held in 1813. These initial proposals took place in a context marked by liberal ideas and lack of confidence in judicial authorities.Other Latin American countries such as Venezuela and Mexico have shown a similar evolution,1 including lay participation in judicial making in their first Constitutional attempts, but with little or no presence in legal practices. Only Brazil, where lay participation started during the Portuguese rule, incorporated effectively the institution.2Trial by jury was also prescribed by the Argentine Constitutions of 1819 and 1826,3 as well as in the 1853 Constitution, the legal text that presided the national organization after many decades of civil war. The process of organizing political institutions was quite slow-the first Supreme Court Justices took their oath in 1863-and for some time courts continued to work as they used to during colonial times. …
El presente proyecto de investigacion se orienta a analizar la institucion del juicio por jurados... more El presente proyecto de investigacion se orienta a analizar la institucion del juicio por jurados, considerada como un punto estrategico para la observacion de los procesos de cambio que recorren la cultura juridica en Argentina. Frente a las multiples transformaciones y a los intensos procesos de reestructuracion de las relaciones sociales observados en el contexto latinoamericano y especialmente en Argentina, la necesidad de reconstruir la legitimidad de los jueces ante la opinion publica se ha vuelto impostergable, y el recurso a la participacion popular en el campo judicial aparece como un instrumento util para ello. Analizar la efectividad de esta estrategia para la legitimacion del poder judicial es uno de los objetivos del presente proyecto de investigacion. Abordar dicho objetivo implica, indagar en la relacion entre la administracion de justicia y diferentes actores sociales, especialmente los miembros de la profesion juridica y la opinion publica.Se explora igualmente la c...
Se revisan algunos factores que favorecen la extensión de prácticas corruptas en América Latina, ... more Se revisan algunos factores que favorecen la extensión de prácticas corruptas en América Latina, con especial atención a la situación argentina. Utilizando distintas fuen-tes datos, se documenta la extensión de prácticas corruptas de distintos niveles y se ob-servan sus efectos sobre el proceso de democratización. Se sostiene que el aumento de las denuncias, en parte posible gracias al mayor clima de libertad aportado por la demo-cratización, tiene ciertas consecuencias sobre este proceso.
En el estrado. La consolidación de las estrategias participativas en la Justicia Penal, 2019
Capítulo Introductorio del libro En el estrado. La consolidación de las estrategias participativ... more Capítulo Introductorio del libro En el estrado. La consolidación de las estrategias participativas en la Justicia Penal, editado por María Inés Bergoglio, María Eugenia Gastiazoro y Sebastián Viqueira, Ed. Advocatus
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