11th Annual Conference on Legal & Policy Issues in the Americas
Creating a Consensus for Justice Reform in Peru
May 17 – 18, 2010
Montevideo, Uruguay
Conference Agenda
Annotated Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Panel: Reform of Criminal Procedure in Uruguay
- Overview (Visión General): Milton Cairoli, paper presented: Exposión de Motivos de Anteproyecto de Código Penal – Parte General and Dardo Preza, paper presented: Sobe la Proyectada Reforma del Proceso Penal
- Speedy Trial: Ann Conway, paper presented: Speedy Trial: the Path to Protecting the Rights of Citizens and Defendants; Juicio Rápido: Raúl Cervini, paper presented: El Principio de Speedy Trial (Juicio Rápido) su Recepción Dentro del Nuevo Proyecto de Reforma del Código del Proceso Penal de Uruguay
- Right to Counsel/Public Defender: Peter Messitte, paper presented: Right to Counsel and Legal Assistance in the United States and Brazil
- Preventive Detention: Elizabeth Jenkins, paper presented: Preventative Detention in the United States of America: Legal and Practical Dimensions; Prisión Preventiva: Miguel Langon, paper presented: Prisión Preventiva en el Uruguay
- Rights of Detainees/ Prisoners: Timothy Maloney, paper presented: Rights of Detainees and Prisoners in the United States; Derechos de Detenidos/Reforma Prisional: Álvaro Garcé, paper presented: Apreciación General Sobre la Evolución del Sistema Carcelario Uruguayo en los Últimos 5 Años, con Especial Referencia a la Situación Procesal de los Internos
- Plea Bargaining: Peter Messitte, paper presented: Plea Bargaining in Various Criminal Justice Systems
Panel: Trade Business and Dispute Settlement
- Steve Powell and Ludmila Ribeiro, paper presented: Managing the rule of law in the Americas: an empirical portrait of the effects of 15 years of WTO dispute resolution on civil society in Latin America
- Cecilia Fresnedo de Aguirre, paper presented: El Arbitraje Internacional: Precencia y Evolución el el Ámbito Juridíco Uruguayo
- Don Peters, paper presented: It Takes Two to Tango, and to Mediate: Legal Cultural and Other Factors Influencing United States and Latin American Lawyers’ Reluctance to Mediate Commercial Disputes
Panel: Agro-Ranching and the Environment
- Chairs: Timothy McLendon & Jeff Wade; Co-Chair: Marcelo CousillasPanel Summary
Panel: Financial Crime & Street Crime
- Fletcher Baldwin, paper presented: The Rule of Law: An Essential Component of the Financial War Against Organized Crime and Terrorism in the Americas
- Gabriel Adriasola, paper presented: El Derecho Penal Económico: Del Bien Juridico Supraindividual a su Identificación con Intereses Individuales. Su Evolución en Uruguay
- Raúl Cervini, paper presented: Abuso de la Posición Dominante y Networks Ilícitositos Como Filtros Sistémicos de Impunidad de la Criminalidad Económica Contemporánea
Panel: Comparative Perspective on the Environmental/Human Rights Link in the Americas
- Annotated panel’s agenda & Abstracts (for most of the presentations)
- Jacob Kopas, presentation summary: Opportunities for litigating environmental cases before the Inter-American System of Human Rights; Environmental Defense Guide: in English at http://www.aida-americas.org/sites/default/files/AIDA_Environmental_Defense_Guide.pdf; in Spanish at http://www.aida-americas.org/sites/default/files/AIDA_GUIA_2008.pdf; and in Portuguese at http://www.aida-americas.org/sites/default/files/GUIA_AIDA_PORTUGUES-WEBSITE_0.pdf
- Jacob Kopas, supporting summary of dam project: “Large Dams in the Americas: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?“ (in English and in Spanish); Full report in Spanish can be found online at http://www.aida-americas.org/sites/default/files/InformeAIDA_GrandesRepreseas_BajaRes_0.pdf
- AEHR Press Release on International Human Rights Commission Takes Jurisdiction Over Louisiana Environmental Racism Case, AEHR Statement on The BP Oil Drilling Disaster, and Monique Harden’s paper presentation: What President Obama Really Needs to Clean Up with the BP Oil Drilling Disaster
Panel: Emerging Legal Issues in Uruguay and the Americas
- What the Study of Foreign Legal Systems Teaches Us About Our Own: Pedro Malavet, paper presented: Comparative Law as Looking Glass: What Foreign Legal Systems Can Teach us About Ours
- Public Access to Justice: Gonzalo Uriarte Audi, paper presented: Las “Reglas de Brasilia Sobre Acceso a la Justicia de las Personas en Condiciones De vulnerabilidad” en el Uruguay: Que Tenemos y Que Nos Falta
- Public Information as Part of Democracy in the Americas: Danilo Arbilla and Claudio Paolillo, paper presented: El Acceso a la Información Pública en América Latina
- Law and Ethics in a Global Economy – The Effects of Justice: Nicolás Etcheverry, paper presented: La Confianza – Actitud Etica y Cultural