International Models of Justice System Performance II
My last blog
noted three promising international models of justice system performance
measurement and management: (1) the EU Justice Scoreboard, (2) the Global
Measures of Court Performance, and (3) the CourTools.
All three, more or less, aim for
harmonization and consistent use of a common set of justice sector performance
measures. There are, of course, differences among them, but it is their
commonality that is potentially transformative for justice systems around the
globe.
What distinguishes these three models from international global governance initiatives like theWorld Justice Project’s WJP Rule of Law Index™ and the American Bar Association’s Judicial Reform Index, as well as myriad program evaluations of justice and rule of law projects, is that they promote an approach to performance measurement and management that: is essentially a bottom-up instead of a top-down strategy grounded in the local ambitions of justice institutions and justice systems exercising their legitimate…
What distinguishes these three models from international global governance initiatives like theWorld Justice Project’s WJP Rule of Law Index™ and the American Bar Association’s Judicial Reform Index, as well as myriad program evaluations of justice and rule of law projects, is that they promote an approach to performance measurement and management that: is essentially a bottom-up instead of a top-down strategy grounded in the local ambitions of justice institutions and justice systems exercising their legitimate…