On the first anniversary since its establishment — 11th May 2012 — the Justice Development Foundation presented 
the first set of analyses based on the psychological and sociological research ‘the Reform Experiment: A Glance at the Human In the Judiciary’ which had been conducted in March-April 2012 and joined by nearly 1000 judges and prosecutiors within the research project ‘Judiciary between Laws and Facts’.
The project is not financed and the team has been implementing it pro bono as a contriobution to the judiciary reform in Bulgaria.
The results were presented at a conference ‘Judiciary betyween Laws and Facts’ held in the Conference Hall of the Supreme Court of Cassation in the Palace of Justice in Sofia and was attended by 
HE Karen van Kesteren, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bulgaria, high representatives of the embassies of Germany and France (respectively Mr. Reinchard Krap and Mdm. Marianne Carre), the President of the Union of Bulgarian Jurists Mr. Vladislav Slavov, representatives of the Delegation of the European Commission, of the Prosecutor General, of the Bulgarian Judges Association, the Association of the Bulgarian Prosecutors, and of the Chamber of the Investigators, Constitutional judges, prosecutors and judges from all courts anf prosecutions based in Sofia, researchers from the Bulgarian Academy of Science and universities, representatives of NGOs. 
The participants discussed the enforcement of the constitutional model of the judiciary, the level to which the Bulgarian judicial system had been integrated within the EUI system, the processes of construction and development of group professional identities of judges and prosecutors, carrer growth, management and career development practices of the Supreme Judicial Council, the emergance of dependencies within the system, propositions for structural and functional reform, etc.
The first analitical papers will be published in the periodical Theses, issued by the Association of the Bulgarian Prosecutors, and the second issues of the Judicial Newletter 
issues by the Bulgarian Judges Association.
The Justice Development Foundation expresses its deep gratitude to the President of the Supreme Court of Cassation for the hoispitality and to the Bulgarian judges and prosecutors, their professional associations and the Prosecutor General for their most active support nad confidence which made the research possible.
The full English version of the research may be downloaded from here:
THE REFORM EXPERIMENT: A GLANCE AT THE HUMAN IN JUDICIARY (FULL TEXT IN ENGLISH)
