[2] Dejure analyses judges' integrity based on their records and monitors legal developments related to the judiciary of Ukraine.

[1][3] Dejure Foundation was co-founded in 2016 by former judge of Vinnytsia District Court, Mykhailo Zhernakov, together with a former attorney and a civil society activist.

[1] The name Dejure was chosen to have the double meaning of the legal term de jure and as an acronym for Democracy Justice Reforms.

[1] Dejure aims at helping to reconstruct the judiciary of Ukraine in a way that reduces the level of corruption in the country.

[1] In 2021, Dejure objected to the Ethics Council's decisions in confirming several judges to the High Council of Justice that Dejure and other civil society organisations, including Anti-Corruption Action Center, saw as having records lacking integrity and of having persecuted whistleblowers and anti-corruption activists.