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Judicial reform is currently a hotly debated topic in Brazil. The call for reform of the Brazilian judiciary, however, is anything but new. The Brazilian judiciary has been in a state of crisis since colonial days, and despite numerous attempts at reform, it remains in crisis. With the privatization of Brazil's state-owned enterprises, the growth of Mercosur, the urgent need to make Brazilian firms competitive in world markets, the emphasis upon attracting foreign investment, and the opening of Brazil's economy to foreign competition, Brazilian political leadership began to focus upon ways to reform Brazil's malfunctioning judicial system. Unfortunately, the proposed reforms are unlikely to cure the underlying problems of Brazil's judiciary, which are deeply embedded in a complex of constitutional, procedural, structural, economic, political, and cultural problems that are likely to be resolved, if at all, only over a period of many years.

President Nixon has several times in the recent past publicly recognized a growing national attitude-the American people, as a class, are losing confidence in the ability of their governments to govern. And this unfortunate lack, or at least diminution of confidence, is nowhere more evident than in the way the average citizen views the courts of this country.

Das Großherzogtum Luxemburg strebt in der laufenden Legislaturperiode eine weitreichende Reform der Justizorganisation an. Mit dem "Conseil national de la Justice" und dem "Cour suprême" werden neue Institutionen geschaffen, die eine Diskussion um Aufgaben, Verantwortung und Unabhängigkeit der Justizorgane erforderlich machen. Der Tagungsband "Judicial Reforms in Luxembourg and Europe" leistet einen Beitrag zu dieser Diskussion. Behandelt werden Fragen zu Verfassungsrecht und Zugang zum Recht vor dem Hintergrund der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf den prozessualen Implikationen der vorgesehenen Institutionen. Erfahrungen aus den Mitgliedstaaten werden rechtsvergleichend in den Blick genommen.Mit Beiträgen von: Remo Caponi, Georgios Dimitropoulos, Rusen Ergec, Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen, Burkhard Hess, Luc Heuschling, Sevérine Menétrey, Christos Rozakis, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Marcel Storme, Sophie Turenne, Stefaan Voet

Book Reviewed in this articlePhilip L. Dubois (editor) The Analysis of Judicial Reform (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books; D.C. Heath and Company, 1982); 221 pp.; ISBN 0‐669‐04480‐6; $23.95.Philip L. Dubois (editor) The Politics of Judicial Reform (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books; D.C. Heath and Company, 1982); 187 pp.; ISBN 0‐669‐04478‐4; $24.95 cloth.