ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that the realization of judicial reform in Russia, for all its accomplishments, remains in an early stage and requires many further initiatives to make Russia's courts autonomous, powerful, fair, and respected. It analyzes the recommendations within each of these groups and grapple with the difficult subject of priorities. Joining all of the recommendations is a perspective on the challenge of reforming justice in Russia. Beyond the useful but narrow changes, the authors identified three especially important issues that the judiciary in Russia must address in order to develop the autonomy of individual judges. The authors urge the leaders of the Russian judiciary to address these issues—by issuing new guidelines on evaluation that limit the role of statistical indicators and by actively exploring ways to decouple the existing system of mentoring and supervising of lower court judges by judges on superior courts.
