BizCLIR

Author (s):

Linn Hammergren

Date:

1998

Publication (if applicable):

N/A

Abstract (if Available):

Judicial reform is a new discipline, but not so new as to escape questions about its intellectual and practical value. In the past few years, external observers and long-term participants have begun a serious reexamination of its accomplishments on both dimensions. This process is not likely to end soon, but an early conclusion is that poor knowledge management constitutes a serious impediment both to disciplinary development and to its application in the resolution of real problems. Here critics have pointed to a series of issues, ranging from a tendency to design, and execute projects in a near informational vacuum, through an absence of systematic efforts to build and test theories and strategies, to a simple failure to draw on past experience or to consolidate and disseminate it adequately. The problems may be inevitable given the field’s dominance by practitioners and advocates more inclined to action than to contemplation. However, they are sufficiently serious to threaten its immediate utility and longer-term survival. For those convinced that there is something worth saving, improved knowledge management has thus become a priority.

URL:

http://www.pogar.org/publications/judiciary/linn1/knowledge.pdf