Alberto M Binder — Transcript
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- 0:04Well, good afternoon. As is fitting and
- 0:08pleasant, I would first like to express
- 0:11my gratitude for your hospitality, the
- 0:13beautiful hospitality that one enjoys
- 0:16so much. And secondly, in this era of
- 0:24so many false individualistic illusions
- 0:26, we must always highlight and thank
- 0:29the builders of community. So, a thank
- 0:34you to our friend Abel Zamorano and his
- 0:37entire team for having painstakingly
- 0:40built this common space that we all
- 0:43enjoy and that makes us better. As
- 0:50other speakers have said, I will have
- 0:53half an hour to provide a reading guide
- 0:56for what you have in the immense book
- 0:58you have received. So, please take it
- 1:02in that way. And I have used this
- 1:06simple framework used in institutional
- 1:09analysis: where do we come from, where
- 1:11are we, where are we going, because it
- 1:14allows us to have a more complex vision
- 1:17, to get away from self-praising
- 1:19optimism and, at the same time, from a
- 1:22pessimism that leads nowhere in order
- 1:24to understand the processes we are in
- 1:27regarding this issue. I will be
- 1:31schematic. I will try to convey
- 1:33concrete and clear ideas to you as a
- 1:37guide for understanding this problem.
- 1:41First of all, we must reflect and not
- 1:45forget not only the importance of what
- 1:49we have called the reform of criminal
- 1:53justice in Latin America, but its
- 1:56magnitude in just 20 years. Nearly 40
- 2:01new procedural codes have been approved
- 2:04. And this meant finally fulfilling in
- 2:10our countries what had been a mandate
- 2:13of the liberal republican thought of
- 2:16the first decades of the 19th century
- 2:19that had taken us so long. We went
- 2:22through written processes, we went
- 2:25through mixed ones, we did everything
- 2:27until we reached these 20 years. Where
- 2:31look at this enormous work that took
- 2:34place. This is the first thing we must
- 2:38keep in our memory because sometimes we
- 2:41get lost or we do not reflect
- 2:43adequately on the magnitude of what all
- 2:46our countries and the entire region
- 2:49have decided. From there, in this "
- 2:54where we come from," I want to
- 2:56highlight only three ideas. You will be
- 2:59able to see many others. First of all,
- 3:02when the decision is made to advance
- 3:05the reform process, it is not for a
- 3:08technical reason or because of
- 3:10procedural schools. Hmm. That is not
- 3:14the reason. The reason is much deeper
- 3:17and continues to this day. In some way,
- 3:21some coming out of darker times, others
- 3:24not, but all of Latin America begins a
- 3:27new period of installation and thinking
- 3:30about democracy. And there appears a
- 3:35new idea, relatively, no, I would say
- 3:37it is new, in the consideration of the
- 3:40democratic thought that we have to
- 3:42maintain. It is not possible to build a
- 3:46quality democracy without a quality
- 3:48justice administration. But I repeat,
- 3:52it is not possible to build a quality
- 3:55democracy without a quality justice
- 3:58administration, but not in the sense
- 4:01that we will have a quality democracy
- 4:04and by derivation we will get a quality
- 4:07justice administration. No, no, but
- 4:12rather the incorporation of what from
- 4:15then on was called the judicial
- 4:17question of democracy; we know that the
- 4:20dimension of judicial systems, and
- 4:23historically since Beccaria onwards,
- 4:25criminal justice has been a central
- 4:28political concern. That is to say,
- 4:32working on that administration of
- 4:35justice to make it high-quality is a
- 4:37central and important part of building
- 4:39that quality democracy. We come from
- 4:43there, and you might tell me, "We
- 4:45haven't achieved it." No, but why
- 4:47should we have achieved it in 20 years?
- 4:52I say this because yesterday I was
- 4:54listening to the candidates for
- 4:56different offices, I think they were
- 4:58for president, and they kept demanding
- 5:00a quality democracy. It remains the
- 5:04issue, and therefore we will not be
- 5:06able to build that quality democracy we
- 5:08all long for if we do not take the
- 5:10administration of justice seriously and
- 5:12ensure it is quality-driven. That is
- 5:15where we come from, from that
- 5:16reflection, from that clear idea.
- 5:20Everything else was how to technically
- 5:22build ideas and tools to solve that
- 5:24problem. Second, an idea that I want us
- 5:31to be clear about regarding where we
- 5:36come from. When that political need was
- 5:41raised, luckily for Latin America,
- 5:44there were tools available; but those
- 5:48available tools were the result of at
- 5:52least 30 previous years of networks of
- 5:55proceduralists and academics who had
- 5:59been working intensely to define what
- 6:02those procedural rules would be. The
- 6:07so-called model codes for Ibero-America
- 6:10, both in criminal and procedural
- 6:12matters, began to take shape in the 60s
- 6:15, and there was a cooperation network
- 6:21throughout Latin America that got in
- 6:24touch and worked together as if we all
- 6:27belonged to the same sect, and that
- 6:30also allowed for the scale of the
- 6:33problem. Let's remember that because I
- 6:37will bring it back at the end. Third,
- 6:41where do we come from? If this great
- 6:45political problem had been left in the
- 6:48hands of judicial operators or even
- 6:52academics, the reform could not have
- 6:55been carried out. The reform process is
- 7:00characterized by a deep articulation
- 7:02with social movements, organizations,
- 7:04and human rights movements that were
- 7:06working for that better quality
- 7:08democracy through social coordination.
- 7:12It was a moment of openness to society.
- 7:14There was no fear of opening up to
- 7:18society in order to build that highly
- 7:21complex process of change. I want to
- 7:25highlight this; we could talk, and you
- 7:27will see in the essay I left you many
- 7:28other reasons regarding where we come
- 7:30from, the historical background,
- 7:31cultural problems, and so on. But I
- 7:35wanted to highlight these three because
- 7:38they relate to what we will later see
- 7:40as the need for a new agenda for
- 7:43criminal justice reform. Alright, there
- 7:47we are. Second point: from where we
- 7:53came to where we are now, which also
- 7:56involves a much longer task to explain,
- 7:59but I want to highlight two or three
- 8:02phenomena, let's do it in threes again.
- 8:09The first one, which should in a way
- 8:11make us more satisfied, is that
- 8:13throughout the region, the idea, the
- 8:16concept, and I would even say a certain
- 8:19cultural consolidation regarding what
- 8:21the adversarial system is, has been
- 8:24solidified. I don’t know anyone who
- 8:27is asking to go back to the mixed
- 8:29system, to the written system. There is
- 8:31no one in Latin America, right? Why?
- 8:34Because it was understood that this was
- 8:36a derivation. of international human
- 8:39rights treaties, a derivation of the
- 8:42constitutional model of criminal
- 8:44procedure, and this became consolidated
- 8:46. As my mentor Julio Mayer used to tell
- 8:51us, whom it is good to remember since
- 8:54he passed away recently. Look, it will
- 8:57take us a long time to implement, but
- 8:59this is the path we have, we have
- 9:00nothing else to put in its place. We
- 9:03have to build this well, but this is
- 9:05the constitutional model; it’s not
- 9:06just about the codes or the laws, it is
- 9:08in the Constitution and the treaties.
- 9:11And today, even all the students are
- 9:13clear on this. This is no small thing,
- 9:16let’s say; this is something to be
- 9:18glad about, it is consolidated. And
- 9:20someone might tell me, it is also
- 9:22consolidated at a cultural level. Of
- 9:24course, because society—and the media
- 9:26helps us with this—always believed
- 9:28justice was more or less like this, and
- 9:30now they discover it doesn't turn out
- 9:32very well, but it is more or less how
- 9:34it was in the cultural imagination. So,
- 9:36this conceptual, political, and
- 9:39cultural consolidation is an important
- 9:42part of where we are. However, this
- 9:48coexists with another problem: when we
- 9:51no longer look at the conceptual model,
- 9:54but rather at criminal justice as a
- 9:56universe of practices, as the set of
- 9:59things we effectively do, things look
- 10:01different. So, today we have a strong
- 10:06tension between the adversarial model
- 10:10and the set of practices that are being
- 10:14developed, which are not uniform either
- 10:18, but let’s put it more caricaturedly
- 10:21. The adversarial system that judicial
- 10:26operators have in their heads is not
- 10:28exactly the one from the model. Hmm. Uh
- 10:33, which is quite a bit more established
- 10:36, and there, a process is triggered
- 10:39that we already know and study as the
- 10:42inquisitorial reconfiguration in the
- 10:45world of the practice of adversarial
- 10:48systems, which is also very complex.
- 10:53But in general terms, if one looks at
- 10:56how the system functions, judicial
- 10:59operators slowly push the operation,
- 11:02the actual configuration of the system,
- 11:05toward a type of operation typical of
- 11:08mixed systems; they just let it drift
- 11:11there. And what does that mean?
- 11:15Basically, a preparatory stage that is
- 11:17bureaucratized and bogged down in red
- 11:19tape, and low-quality oral proceedings.
- 11:24That is what happens if we leave the
- 11:27system to drift toward wherever the
- 11:30judicial operators take it. But this is
- 11:33not so clear because there are many
- 11:35people working to change course, to
- 11:39steer it. That is why we have a certain
- 11:43feeling of disorder throughout the
- 11:45region, because it is not clarified. I
- 11:50repeat, we had to ask ourselves now
- 11:52that we can relax a bit and are no
- 11:53longer in the battle against the
- 11:55inquisitorial system in the conceptual
- 11:57model, could it be any other way? I
- 12:03remember at the beginning of the reform
- 12:05, when we started working with Canadian
- 12:08or North American colleagues or
- 12:10prosecutors, they would tell us, "It is
- 12:12impossible to establish the adversarial
- 12:14system by changing the laws. It is
- 12:18impossible because our own experience
- 12:20is that it took us centuries." And we
- 12:25would tell them, "Yes, that may be, but
- 12:26it's not like our written systems." You
- 12:29in Panama had it more or less
- 12:31prefigured, you had more opportunities,
- 12:33but in most countries, the written or
- 12:35French mixed systems were not going to
- 12:38evolve on their own toward an
- 12:40adversarial system. What we were saying
- 12:43was, we have to make a legislative
- 12:46strike and then start to evolve. And
- 12:49that strategy was—was right. It was
- 12:53right, but there we are. So, let us not
- 12:56be surprised that we now have all the
- 12:58problems of a system that has to evolve
- 13:01. Or do you think that the Anglo-Saxon
- 13:05or North American systems didn't have
- 13:07many of the problems we have 50 years
- 13:09ago, and that they aren't constantly
- 13:11correcting them? That brings me to the
- 13:14third element that I want to highlight
- 13:17about where we are, which has to do
- 13:20with the fact that we have lost the
- 13:23tension of the system's implementation.
- 13:29Who is worrying about the
- 13:30implementation of the system? I mean,
- 13:33once they started—once they went into
- 13:36effect in 2016, it's as if you let go,
- 13:42The leadership from Ministries of
- 13:44Justice or the implementation
- 13:46commissions in the various places that
- 13:49had been set up stop functioning, and a
- 13:52system of mutual adjustment is supposed
- 13:55to begin; but that implies a new type
- 13:57of leadership and a new type of
- 13:59technique. A technique for adjusting
- 14:03the system that we have not developed
- 14:05and that does not materialize in a
- 14:06clear way; in other words, the tension
- 14:08is no longer there. And notice that
- 14:12this is a problem, because if we have
- 14:15spoken of the magnitude, of the
- 14:17political importance, of what it
- 14:19signifies, and of something that is
- 14:22also an achievement we must highlight,
- 14:25it is the great fear that existed at
- 14:27the start of the reform: that we could
- 14:30change the codes, that could be done,
- 14:33but it would remain floating in the sky
- 14:35of the normative. That did not happen.
- 14:40The criminal justice reform touched
- 14:43down. And today we have—consider the
- 14:48magnitude of this—more or less 70
- 14:50procedural systems that are functioning
- 14:53in a different way. Tens of thousands
- 14:58of prosecutors have been appointed in
- 15:00Latin America, thousands of judges,
- 15:03tens of thousands of public defenders,
- 15:05because in most countries there was no
- 15:08strengthened public defense. That is to
- 15:12say, the level of investment, the level
- 15:14of touching down that exists has been
- 15:17very notable. So, today it is strange
- 15:22that these techniques of continuing to
- 15:24implement have been lost, as if this
- 15:27could be implemented in just three or
- 15:29four years, and we have strong
- 15:32leadership problems in the mutual
- 15:34adjustment of the institutions. That is
- 15:38where we are. That is where we are. Hmm
- 15:40. So, this, what I am saying, is an
- 15:44optimistic view. In some things yes, in
- 15:49others no. It is not a pessimistic
- 15:51measure, no. Pessimistic would have
- 15:53been if the codes had just remained
- 15:56there, that we would be talking about
- 15:58things that are not applied, right? But
- 16:02it is realistic that we must have a
- 16:05reality check to realize that of such
- 16:07magnitude, just here in Panama, in how
- 16:10many years, the Public Ministry
- 16:12increased its number of officials
- 16:14twofold or threefold, I believe. Hmm.
- 16:18My country even more because we have
- 16:20many systems. So, that is something of
- 16:23very great magnitude. That is where we
- 16:29are setting the system in motion, with
- 16:32general clarity of the models and some
- 16:35problems, because the codes—these 40
- 16:38codes we have that materialize and
- 16:41provide details to the adversarial
- 16:44criminal procedural system—I always
- 16:47say: they are 40 versions of
- 16:49Frankenstein. And you find a leg that
- 16:54comes from the previous code. An arm
- 16:58that comes from someone's whim. We
- 17:01always find some congressman's ear who
- 17:03said, "Include that provision or I'm
- 17:05not voting." So, it's not that I can't
- 17:10guarantee it; there isn't a code in any
- 17:13country that doesn't say, "How pristine
- 17:16," they all have twists and turns. But
- 17:19I am also convinced of something, and
- 17:20you can tell me if that's the case. I
- 17:22don't know of any procedural code in
- 17:24any Latin American country that
- 17:26prevents the implementation of the
- 17:27accusatorial system. Or that prevents
- 17:31the implementation of the accusatorial
- 17:32system. That is not the case. So, well,
- 17:36until Franin learns to dance salsa,
- 17:38let's give him time. It's going to take
- 17:42time. In the meantime, we should work
- 17:45more on smoothing out all the rough
- 17:47edges and mismatches in the codes,
- 17:50which aren't really errors. They are
- 17:54the product of different interests,
- 17:56different occurrences in the
- 17:58development state of each country, and
- 18:01their traditions. That realism of the
- 18:05imperfection of procedural codes
- 18:07allowed them to be approved, not just
- 18:10generic conceptual ideas. Right, where
- 18:14are we heading? Because we have little
- 18:16time. And here I want to propose only
- 18:21four or five central challenges that I
- 18:24think are part of this new agenda we
- 18:28need to undertake for reform. First of
- 18:31all, if we no longer have to be
- 18:33discussing the general ideas of the
- 18:36accusatorial system, everything has
- 18:38exploded into a thousand different
- 18:40problems. And here we also have a
- 18:44problem, which is that we can get
- 18:47distracted by the details and not
- 18:50realize how we need to keep pushing the
- 18:53system toward that. And on the other
- 18:59hand, we do have a challenge: we have
- 19:01very little empirical knowledge of what
- 19:04is happening in our systems. A lot—we
- 19:10don't have our information systems,
- 19:13which exist in some countries and
- 19:15sometimes exist with many resources,
- 19:17giving us a clear idea of what is
- 19:20really happening; numbers are no longer
- 19:22enough. This universe of practices has
- 19:25become so complex that the gut feeling
- 19:28of an old prosecutor, judge, or someone
- 19:31isn't enough. We have to put numbers on
- 19:33the table. Hmm. In my country, for
- 19:38example, we just did an investigation
- 19:40that made us fight with three-quarters
- 19:42of our public ministries, where we were
- 19:44able to demonstrate that when we look
- 19:46for high-quality outcomes from the
- 19:48Public Prosecutor's Office, they don't
- 19:50reach 7%. In other words, 90%of the
- 19:55cases lead to nothing. So, this must be
- 19:59put on the table; otherwise, it's easy
- 20:01to say the media is pushing us, but
- 20:03then one says no. Well then, first
- 20:07challenge: to build a new agenda, a new
- 20:10stage, we must develop empirical
- 20:13knowledge, both with data and a much
- 20:15finer analysis of jurisprudence, of how
- 20:18criminal justice problems are
- 20:21materializing, because otherwise, we
- 20:23often end up doing scholasticism; that
- 20:26is, having discussions where we don't
- 20:30know if they occur in reality or not.
- 20:36The institution currently facing the
- 20:39greatest challenges, fortunately, is
- 20:41the Public Prosecutor's Office. The
- 20:45Public Prosecutor's Office is an
- 20:46institution that is, fortunately, in
- 20:48trouble. Why is it in trouble? In the
- 20:53first place, because in recent years,
- 20:56much more than we sometimes expected,
- 20:58the region's prosecutors have shown
- 21:01they can take on powerful sectors. They
- 21:09have taken on business people, taken on
- 21:11politicians, they have taken on those
- 21:14who have power, and today we are
- 21:16feeling the backlash of that. Do you
- 21:19know how the Public Prosecutor's
- 21:21problem has become complicated? When
- 21:25the status quo and political leadership
- 21:27became aware, and especially when the
- 21:30mafias realized that there was a
- 21:31powerful institution there. Is this
- 21:37good news? Yes. Now, as we always say,
- 21:41if the Public Prosecutor's Office is
- 21:43going to move up to the big leagues, it
- 21:45has to adjust how it operates.
- 21:48Furthermore, it also has to face new,
- 21:51very complex forms of criminality,
- 21:54criminal markets, and on the other hand
- 21:56, very massive phenomena of
- 21:58victimization that are also new, first
- 22:01and foremost gender violence and others
- 22:04. So, the Public Prosecutor's Office is
- 22:07, fortunately, in trouble. Now a lot of
- 22:13work in political re-engineering and
- 22:15institutional re-engineering must be
- 22:17put into it. What do I mean by
- 22:21political re-engineering? Well, when
- 22:24the new Public Prosecutor's Office is
- 22:26discussed in Latin America, because the
- 22:28one that existed before did not have
- 22:29the magnitude of the one today, or in
- 22:31some countries, it barely existed at
- 22:33all. There was a discussion about
- 22:36whether it would be dependent on the
- 22:37executive branch or would be an
- 22:38autonomous institution. And the idea
- 22:43that prosecutor's offices are
- 22:46autonomous institutions ends up
- 22:48prevailing in Latin America; but only
- 22:51now are we becoming aware of what that
- 22:54means, because autonomy can be a
- 22:57situation of weakness (not talking to
- 23:00anyone) or autonomy can be a situation
- 23:03of strength, but at least beyond having
- 23:06a serious, rigorous, intelligent
- 23:08dialogue with others, including
- 23:11political actors. What I am sure I
- 23:15cannot renounce is leaning on social
- 23:18power for support. That is
- 23:21institutional autonomy. And when we
- 23:24tell prosecutors, "But look, if you now
- 23:26need to build power for autonomy to be
- 23:28true autonomy, with these numbers and
- 23:30this way of working, how are you going
- 23:32to build alliances with the citizenry?"
- 23:37Hm. So, this is something we must start
- 23:41working on in a new way to understand
- 23:46this autonomy. The Public Prosecutor's
- 23:49Office must also face a deep
- 23:51reengineering of its work processes and
- 23:54, consequently, its organizational
- 23:57models. Much has been done, yes, but it
- 24:01must be deepened, because that Public
- 24:03Prosecutor's Office which receives tens
- 24:06or hundreds of thousands of cases—and
- 24:09generally speaking, let's assume, I
- 24:11don't know the numbers here, that they
- 24:14have 90%of cases archived. cannot
- 24:18present itself in a new way like that;
- 24:21it has to learn to build quality exits
- 24:23in a much more sophisticated manner,
- 24:25and for that, the matter is key. The
- 24:28key lies in abandoning the worst
- 24:31disease we have, the worst obstacle,
- 24:33which is the culture of paperwork. In
- 24:38other words, if what prosecutors are
- 24:40going to do is arrive at their offices,
- 24:42open case files, and process them, we
- 24:43are in trouble. The abandonment of what
- 24:48we call investigation by routine duties
- 24:50in favor of investigations by
- 24:52hypothesis, as we were told. Well, new
- 24:54forms of grouping with more flexibility
- 24:57by subject, while also carrying baggage
- 25:00that we still haven't been able to
- 25:02resolve and which it's time we pay full
- 25:05attention to, because this has been
- 25:07going on for 20 years without a
- 25:09solution: we have not been able to
- 25:12modernize and normalize the
- 25:13investigative police. The question of
- 25:19whether it belongs to the Public
- 25:21Prosecutor's Office or not is a
- 25:22secondary issue, but our investigative
- 25:24police are not keeping pace with the
- 25:26needs that prosecutor offices have
- 25:28today, and this must be addressed very
- 25:30deeply. So the new agenda is a new look
- 25:35at what the effectiveness of the Public
- 25:38Prosecutor's Office means, and a lot of
- 25:40work needs to be developed there. The
- 25:45Attorney General, uh, outlined these
- 25:47lines and you, uh, heard it above all
- 25:50in the opening speech. Second, the
- 25:53judges, we will not tire of, uh,
- 25:58pointing out the importance of judges,
- 26:01but judges have two important tasks.
- 26:06And let's remember something that is
- 26:08also a kind of problem we are dragging
- 26:10along: that the judicial reform was,
- 26:12above all, a first-instance reform. And
- 26:14that's not bad, but today we are paying
- 26:16for a lack of clarity in the higher
- 26:18courts, in particular the Supreme
- 26:20Courts. But judges, if there is
- 26:23anything we are asking of them, it is
- 26:26that they be conscious custodians of
- 26:28oral proceedings. Hm. And being
- 26:33custodians of orality, which remains a
- 26:36central theme, means being aware that
- 26:39when we speak of orality, we are
- 26:41talking about rigorous, public
- 26:43litigation. Orality is not just blah,
- 26:49blah, blah; it is rigorous, public
- 26:51litigation, and we are still far from
- 26:54that. We are seeing how the core, the
- 26:58touchstone of all this, which is the
- 27:01production of evidence, is relaxing;
- 27:04trials are being allowed to drag on,
- 27:06and trials are being conducted that
- 27:09lack rigor. The very idea that one must
- 27:12prove disputed facts, which we always
- 27:14say—that is in the records—is not a
- 27:16new idea. Uh, it is being abandoned,
- 27:19anything is being proven, and the
- 27:20opening order for trial is not being
- 27:22given enough attention. That is where
- 27:25we must ask judges to be clear
- 27:27custodians of orality as rigorous,
- 27:30public litigation. And we must be
- 27:33careful with temptations. No one is
- 27:35against virtuality, but we must be
- 27:38careful of the loss of publicity and
- 27:42the loss of rigor that certain forms of
- 27:45virtuality entail, keeping an open mind
- 27:49, but without getting carried away by
- 27:53irresponsible enthusiasm. And the
- 27:57second task we must ask of judges on
- 28:01this new agenda is more consistent work
- 28:05in the development of precedents. The
- 28:10function of justice, for all judges, is
- 28:14legal certainty; and that is a system
- 28:17of precedents where we are also
- 28:20rigorous in following and analyzing
- 28:23those precedents, which is something
- 28:26always linked to facts and law, and
- 28:29where both Anglo-Saxon and continental
- 28:32European systems now align. We have a
- 28:36strong challenge regarding the legal
- 28:38profession, but much has been said
- 28:39about that here, so I will leave it at
- 28:41that. But they have, in the law of
- 28:44advocacy, what I would say is, if there
- 28:47is an ethical problem, it is an ethical
- 28:49problem in a different sense: that we
- 28:52lawyers must all have a strong
- 28:54adherence to the rules of the system,
- 28:57to fair play, to a fair trial. It is
- 29:00not a problem of ethics or abstract
- 29:03values, but rather that the lawyer, the
- 29:05legal profession, means that we will
- 29:08accept the rules and not be pulling
- 29:10them in every direction. We know this.
- 29:14Any soccer player...fair play would be
- 29:16impossible if there were no adherence
- 29:17to the rules by the players, which
- 29:19sometimes fails, and well, it fails and
- 29:21for that we have referees; but, in
- 29:23general terms, the culture of fair play
- 29:25, which used to be called procedural
- 29:27good faith and should continue to be
- 29:28called that, is the axis of
- 29:30professional ethics. And judges must
- 29:32also demand this of lawyers with
- 29:34greater strictness. Every time fair
- 29:38play is affected—I only have two
- 29:40minutes left and I'm finishing. Every
- 29:43time the game is affected, the fair
- 29:45trial, when there is no adherence to
- 29:47the rules, we must be rigorous because
- 29:49there is an ethical impact there. The
- 29:53system provides enough tools for any
- 29:56lawyer to manage their interests well.
- 29:59They do not need to break the rules. Hm
- 30:02. And this seems to me to be something
- 30:05that today we must be clearer about
- 30:07with the students who are there,
- 30:09telling them, "Gentlemen, here is a
- 30:11system of rules to be respected." And
- 30:14I'll finish now with the academy. The
- 30:17academy, and since we are here in an
- 30:19academic setting, must also take on
- 30:21challenges. I believe it is time for
- 30:25this new agenda, which we have to build
- 30:27for the next 10 or 15 years, to once
- 30:29again have the participation of this
- 30:31network of institutes to which we all
- 30:34belong and which played such an
- 30:35important role. And we have to get to
- 30:40work on, uh, developing and giving
- 30:43technical capacity to public
- 30:45authorities to take the criminal
- 30:50justice system to a new stage. That is
- 30:54a role we must have there. It is the
- 30:55most beautiful role we can have as
- 30:57proceduralists, as, uh, penalists:
- 30:59thinking about the development of the
- 31:02system, not entertaining ourselves with
- 31:04the scholasticism that allows us to
- 31:06build castles in the air. Let's make a
- 31:09realistic agenda and let's make a
- 31:11realistic theory about the problems of
- 31:13our systems. And finally, we have the
- 31:17great pending task of making legal
- 31:20education clearer. For that, we have a
- 31:24theoretical challenge, I insist, and
- 31:26you will see it written there: the
- 31:27abandonment of the theoretical corpus
- 31:29of the mixed system, which is so
- 31:31powerful that we still believe we can
- 31:33explain accusatory systems with the old
- 31:35ideas of the mixed system, and it
- 31:37cannot be done. For the younger ones,
- 31:41this is a fantastic time because we
- 31:42have to make all of this explode into
- 31:44new ideas, into new research; you have
- 31:46to write. Put all of us who write in
- 31:51parentheses, so get enthusiastic
- 31:54because there is a lot to develop and,
- 31:57above all, to recover something so
- 31:59beautiful that we all keep in our
- 32:02memory, which is the collaborative
- 32:04effort that all these spaces allowed,
- 32:07that, uh, each one would be nourished
- 32:10and, above all, uh, it pushed us toward
- 32:13the most satisfying thing: thinking,
- 32:15speaking, saying, studying, knowing
- 32:19that we are clearly doing a good thing
- 32:22for our countries. So, go ahead. That
- 32:25is the Academy in Motion. Thank you
- 32:27very much. Ah.
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