Proyecto ACCESO

Proyecto ACCESO is promoting the rule of law throughout the Americas.

The ACCESO team works with all the sectors in the administration of justice. We are judges, prosecutors, public defenders, legal educators, and journalists. We are building new systems for conflict resolution that are fair, efficient and transparent.

By training legal innovators, together we are srengthening the rule of law in our Hemisphere.

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Web Update from the Director

ACCESO Director’s Message – 2006

Dear Friends:

What a year! 2005 was filled with wonderful events for ACCESO as we expanded our product line and our programs throughout Latin America.

Please come in here and have a look at our current programs and events.

Lady Justice returns to Chile

Judge Laura Safer Espinoza the long-time fan of Chile and Supreme Court judge in New York, Hon. Laura Safer Espinoza is in Chile to meet with Supreme Court President Marcos Libedinsky.

She also spoke on juvenile justice issues at the post-graduate program on judicial reform and the rule of law at the University of Chile's law school.

Long a pioneer of problem-solving (the mission of California Western School of Law), Judge Safer Espinoza is leading some workshops with Chilean national leaders of diversion programs like drug courts. She is the Administrative Judge for the Bronx drug treatment court which has had great success in reducing drug addiction.

Judges, lawyers, law professors and law enforcement officials from around the Americas are traveling the world to expose fellow legal professionals to new innovations that bring faster resolutions and to share methods by which to better administer more transparent justice.

This exchange of problem solving technologies includes drug treatment courts, mediation and arbitration, traditional, indigenous and community justice systems, youth peer court, victim-offender reconciliation programs, and case management practices. This sharing and human capacity building is geared to address societal ills and provide more efficient and better access to justice. While free and fair elections are a start, nothing can promote democracy like the rule of law and innovations that empower the judiciary and functions within the legal sector to solve the problems that plague society.

Problem solving technologies bridge legal cultures. Some mechanisms employ a more horizontal approach to justice, leveling the participants, the rules, and, at varying levels, the decision-making. Whether justices of the peace in Andean countries, mandatory arbitration clauses for service contracts in North America, a drug treatment court in the Bronx, or settlement conferencing in Hawaii, problem solving, successful technologies have been introduced in the administration of justice. ACCESO Tec models those successes and seeks to replicate them.

Newspaper articles

La Segunda

pictures of Judge Laura in Santiago