On December 11, 2018, the Washington, DC Supreme Court Justice Debra L. Stevens held an open lecture on "Fair and Open Courts: US Lessons from Contemporary Threats to Judicial Independence and Accountability in the Age of Polarized Politics" (Fair and Open Courts: Lessons from American States on , which was attended by associate professors of the Department of Criminal Law and the Process of the Educational and Scientific Law Institute Nazar Malyarchuk, Iryna Litvinova and students.
Judge Debra L. Stevens has served in the Supreme Court of Washington since January 2008, coordinator of the amicus curiae program and associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Gonzaga, taught constitutional law of the states and federations, public property and appeal proceedings. He is also the head of the Washington DC Resource Center for Advanced Scientific and Technological Justice, a Congressional Program to enhance the ability of the courts to deal with scientific and technical issues, co-chair of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute for the Study of Science, the Resource Center's Assignee Organization at the Washington State Commission on Issues national minorities and justice..
During the event, the participants had the opportunity to learn and compare the issues that arise before judges in Ukraine and the United States.