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Reforming Justice: A Journey to Fairness in Asia

Reforming Justice: A Journey to Fairness in Asia

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Livingston Armytage
Cambridge University Press, 5/3/2012
EAN 9781107013827, ISBN10: 1107013828

Hardcover, 382 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

Despite the disappointing results of fifty years of judicial reform, evidence from Asia suggests that a shift in justice reform efforts could result in important progress being made. Livingston Armytage argues that reform should focus on promoting fairness and equity, as opposed to economic growth and good governance. Justice is constitutive to human wellbeing and cannot be trumped by economics. 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.

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.

Advance praise: 'Despite decades of effort and billions of international assistance dollars invested in development of competent, fair, and independent legal and judicial systems, there remain far too few examples of real and enduring success. In his new book, Livingston Armytage argues passionately that the core problem has been a failure to embrace the centrality of justice in legal and judicial reform efforts. Many of us in the development community continue to view universal rights-centric approaches to development with a degree of skepticism, but the insistence that advancing justice, however locally conceived and however achieved, is a central concern of all human beings is surely correct. Reforming Justice is an important contribution to the increasingly critical process of re-examining the assumptions and logic that underlies conventional assistance in this difficult area of international assistance.' William Stadden Cole, The Asia Foundation