UCBerkeley: "Does Rule of Law Reform Make a Difference?"

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CSEAS is co-sponsoring the following lecture, recently added to our
events calendar:

"Does Rule of Law Reform Make a Difference?"

Livingstone Armytage
Senior Counsel for Legal & Judicial Reform,
United Nations Development Program, Cambodia

This talk argues for the international community to increase investment
in performance monitoring and evaluation of legal and judicial reform
efforts around the world and examines the application of this thinking in
two developing countries: Papua New Guinea and Cambodia. There is an
imperative to develop a more serious research-based understanding of what
works and what does not. While early days, the foundations for systematic
and reliable systems for monitoring performance in law and justice are
now being laid in some
developing countries. This is a potentially significant step towards
transforming the capacity of governments to direct, oversee and reform
their law and justice situations, and for donors to monitor the value of
their assistance.

Livingstone Armytage is directing the planning and development for the
Khmer Rouge Tribunal which commenced proceedings in July 2006. He has
served as team leader and technical specialist for various international
agencies, including the United Nations and the World Bank, in Pakistan,
Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Haiti, the Maldives, Mongolia, Palestine,
Vietnam and Afghanistan. He is the author of "Educating Judges", the
seminal work in the field of judicial education.

Co-sponsored with the Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, Boalt School of
Jurisprudence and Social Policy, and the Berkeley Human Rights Center

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
5:00 p.m.
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

This talk is free and open to the public

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The Center for Southeast Asia Studies
International & Area Studies
University of California at Berkeley
2223 Fulton Street, #617
Berkeley, CA 94720-2318
Phone: (510) 642-3609
Fax: (510) 643-7062
http://ias.berkeley.edu/cseas/