Acceso

Mine is called Acceso Access in Spanish and targets Mexico City.

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Acceso, which provides specialized training for Latin legal professionals as well as basic education on the law for the general public, is headquartered at the California Western School of Law in San Diego, where Mr. Cooper is an assistant dean.

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"Jamie Cooper was very, very important in training the first group of lawyers in a system that was initially very strange to them," says Jaime Camus, an erstwhile Acceso student who is chief of an office of 22 public defenders in northern Chile.

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Before co-founding Acceso a decade ago, Mr. Cooper, a 42-year-old Canadian who has a master of law degree from the University of Cambridge, had worked for 15 months at the mammoth corporate law firm Baker & McKenzie.

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To highlight deficiencies in legal protections for Mexican workers under the North American Free Trade Agreement, he produced a reality TV show -- which has run on TV in San Diego and at Acceso conferences -- featuring U.S. law students laboring at a Tijuana toy-making factory.

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Acceso has trained 2,500 judges, prosecutors and public defenders in 15 Latin countries in oral-advocacy techniques used in the new system, such as cross-examination and the handling of expert witnesses.

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In 2005, Acceso, the German government-aid agency and the Chilean Justice Ministry produced a CD of justice-related songs,

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Acceso has been in the thick of promoting one of the few hopeful trends in Latin justice: the adoption in several countries of the more open, U. S.-style adversarial trial system.

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If the boys continue attending Acceso seminars and learn enough to chat up customers on the basics of the law, they'll get shirts and baseball caps emblazoned with human-rights slogans.

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In coup-ridden Ecuador, an Acceso training event was disrupted by an anonymous bomb threat, though that didn't halt the postseminar "Rule of Law Rave."

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