Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal

Max Bader
ORCID iD Leiden University
Netherlands

an Assistant Professor at Leiden University with expertise on the postSoviet area. He is the principal investigator of the project Civil Society against Corruption in Ukraine: Political Roles, Advocacy Strategies, and Impact. His research interests include elections, corruption, authoritarian politics, and reforms. He frequently serves as Statistical Analyst in OSCE/ODIHR election observation missions and has been a consultant for USAID, OSCE/ODIHR, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Netherlands.

Oksana Huss
Leiden University
Netherlands

Post-doctoral researcher at the Leiden University and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network (ICRNetwork. org). She obtained her PhD in political science at the Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. The focus of her academic work is on political corruption in hybrid regimes and open government.

Andriy Meleshevych
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Ukraine

Professor at the Department of Legal Philosophy and Constitutional Law and a co-founder of the Anti-Corruption Research and Education Centre at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Prof. Meleshevych holds a PhD from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (USA), was awarded a visiting fellowship at Stanford University, and served as visiting professor at Heidelberg University, Syracuse University, Groningen University and the University of Helsinki. He has widely published internationally in the fields of comparative political parties and elections, European human rights law, institutionbuilding in the post-Soviet transitional countries, comparative constitutional law and constitutionalism, and the philosophy of law.

Oksana Nesterenko
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Ukraine

Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal Philosophy and Constitutional Law and the Head of the Anti-Corruption Research and Education Centre at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She received her PhD in law from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Ukraine. She specializes in constitutional law, anti-corruption public policy, government transparency, whistleblower protection, freedom of expression and media etc.