The administrative reform of the Judiciary in Brasil: measures, effects and impacts for to the citizen’s rights
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Abstract
The article presents a political analysis of the judicial reform in Brazil from 2004 to 2015. It analyzes the reform measures adopted, their effects on the performance of the courts and their impact on the effectiveness of rights. It updates on work carried out by the authors in 2010, which analyzed the reforms implemented from 2004 to 2009. The most recent data show that the reforms intensified judicial activity and were able to stop the explosive increase in the number of cases in progress. But the reforms have not been able to curb demand, or to reduce the stock of ongoing processes. However, the most problematic is that the pattern of reform has important limitations to the effectiveness of the rights and the democratization of the judiciary.