Halyna Chyzhyk is not yet 30, but already a key player of Ukraine’s judicial reform movement, having played an important role in civil society’s attempts to establish uncorrupted courts in Ukraine in the reform drive following the EuroMaidan Revolution. In a recent interview, she details why transplanting the Western judicial model in post-Soviet states was doomed to fail and why the attempts at reform of Petro Poroshenko and first attempts of the reform of Volodymyr Zelensky ultimately failed. Plus, she raises the most important of all questions: after one has driven out the bad judges, where does one get the good ones to replace them?
EuroMaidan Press: Why Western judicial model does not work in post-Soviet states
Ukraine's Constitutional Court is located in downtown Kyiv near the Olimpiiska metro station.
