22 U.S.C. § 2346c — Administration of justice

(a) The President may assist countries and organizations, including national and regional institutions, to strengthen administration of justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. (b) Assistance may include only: (1) specialized professional training, scholarships, and continuing-legal-education exchanges; (2) stronger prosecutorial and judicial abilities and protection for people in judicial cases; (3) despite section 2420, programs to improve investigative and forensic abilities under judicial or prosecutorial control, develop academic law-enforcement training and curricula, improve law-enforcement administration and management including careers, evaluation, and internal discipline, and, through multilateral or regional institutions, improve penal institutions and offender rehabilitation; (4) stronger professional organizations and member services and the bar’s role in judicial selection, ethics enforcement, and legal reform; (5) more legal materials and publications; (6) seminars, conferences, training, and education to improve justice administration and respect for the rule of law and internationally recognized human rights; and (7) modernizing legal codes and procedures. (c) No more than $20 million of funds made available for this part in a fiscal year may be used for this section, in addition to other available amounts. (d) Funds may not be obligated unless the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee receive notice of the proposed amount and nature at least 15 days beforehand under section 2394–1 procedures. (e) Defense Department personnel and Armed Forces members may not participate in training under this section. No more than $10 million made available for this section could be used in fiscal year 1991 for subsection (b)(3). This section’s authority expired September 30, 1991.