This thesis addresses the following question: What is the role of judicial training (JT) and performance appraisal (PA) in the organizational reform of judiciaries? The research studies the effects of various JT and PA mechanisms upon models of judicial organization. In light of the great diversity of judicial systems and variable configurations of JT and PA, the research strategy is twofold: First, the study focuses on the judiciaries of Chile and England and Wales being representatives of contrasting judicial organizational traditions. Second, I use typologies of judicial organization to focus on the main organizational aspects of judiciaries only, reducing the complexity of multidimensional analysis. After critically reviewing existing typologies of judicial organization, the thesis argues that these analytical constructs cannot fully explain contemporary changes in judiciaries, owing to their one-sided focus upon authority as a central organizational dimension. Rather, the thesis highlights the importance of the values and beliefs implicit in JT and PA arrangements in the normative evolution of the two judiciaries. The research employs a grounded theory methodology to uncover the organizational variables that underpin JT and PA arrangements in the two contexts, using them to develop a new typology, and to explain the role of these mechanisms in the organization of judiciaries. The empirical data shows that JT and PA bear normative content that can influence the reform of judiciaries. The functioning of these mechanisms also expresses different conceptions of authority, organizational cultures, and levels and types of formalization. The thesis proposes an organizational typology to analyse the role of JT and PA in changes to judicial organization. The results help to: 1) explain reforms in judicial organizational models; 2) understand how JT and PA contribute to such processes of change, and 3) highlight the relevance of the type of formalization for the normative analysis of the resulting organizational models.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:30:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Henrique Lopes Pinto.pdf: 637415 bytes, checksum: ab1f3d7aa69158df10bcf6b49ce8c99c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04-26 / International judicial cooperation is collaboration or mutual assistance provide to each other, with the purpose of predicting, outside the territory of the requesting State, the various steps necessary for the development of a process or research. Is still act of reciprocity which involves a series of enactments, such as communications and activities relating to procedural statement, citation, notification, subpoena, supervision, examination, assessment, surveys, investigations, outlive witnesses, among others. The objective of this study, this concept, determine the most relevant aspects of international judicial cooperation, linked to their pleas relating to issues of State sovereignty, cooperation itself, universalisation of access to justice, respect for public order and reciprocity. These elements are understood as fundamental to the idea of building a genuine international cooperation not only that consolidated in treaties and conventions but, above all, one that consolidates international relations more harmony and balance / A cooperação judiciária internacional é a colaboração ou assistência mútua que os Estados prestam uns aos outros, com a finalidade de poder adiantar, fora do território próprio do Estado solicitante, as diversas diligências necessárias para o desenvolvimento de um processo ou investigação. É, ainda, ato de reciprocidade que envolve a realização de uma série de atos, tais como comunicações e atividades referentes à instrução processual, citação, notificação, intimação, fiscalização, exames, avaliação, inquéritos, averiguações, oitiva de testemunhas, dentre outros. O presente estudo objetiva, à vista desse conceito, determinar os aspectos mais relevantes da cooperação judiciária internacional, vinculados aos seus fundamentos referentes às questões da soberania estatal, da cooperação propriamente dita, da universalização do acesso à justiça, do respeito à ordem pública e da reciprocidade. Estes elementos são compreendidos como fundamentais à idéia de construção de uma verdadeira cooperação internacional, não somente aquela consolidada em tratados e convenções, mas, sobretudo, aquela que consolida relações internacionais mais harmônicas e equilibradas