A country with a legal system that possesses the rules, norms, mechanisms and procedures to produce results that most of that country’s inhabitants perceive to be just in the sense of being fair has a high level of rule of law. Countries that are not so blessed have a low level of rule of law. Ukraine has thus far fallen into the second category of countries as is, for example, reflected by its low ranking in the World Justice Project rule of law index. Why?
VoxUkraine: Why is raising the level of rule of law in Ukraine such a challenge?
Activists wearing the symbolic masks of corrupt judges protest against the appointment of tainted judges in front of the Supreme Court on Sept. 13, 2017. President Volodymyr Zelensky's team has announced plans to re-launch judicial reform but his reform commission includes discredited judges.
