Section Chair's Project Description: Kosovo is the only location in the world being administered by an international organization (UN). As we are the ASIL's United Nations section, we are facilitating the objectives of our group, by launching this mentoring program to assist future lawyers in the Balkans. Our objective is to provide a mentoring link between willing members of this ASIL section, other ASIL members, US law students and Pristina University law students--who will one day become ASIL members--and others willing to assist. This has been a productive method for establishing further links between Balkan law students/future attorneys and professors, lawyers, and judges--that may last for a lifetime.

I teach at Pristina University, where I am a Visiting Professor (summers). The other contacts include Dr. Enver Hasani, Rector, Pristina University and Vjosa Osmani, B.A. (law), Pristina University (Kosovo); LL.M. (law), University of Pittsburgh; currently, Advisor to the President.

We hereby solicit you to send a private message to either <vjosao@yahoo.com> [to be a mentee] or <bills@tjsl.edu> [to serve as a mentor] to express your interest and availability to participate. All involved Balkan law students are screened by either Vjosa or me. (For example, all listed Thomas Jefferson Law Student mentors were in my law school Public International Law classes and are mostly six years older than their Balkan mentees & most Balkan student mentees were in my summer classes in Kosovo). In the initial phase of this project, most of them will be students from the Balkans who attend Pristina University. We are now pursuing this program with no specific job description for the mentors. We believe that each linked "team" will decide how to make this program work. We suggest that mentors advise students on literature of mutual interest, and possibly comment on some student work such as papers they are writing, or just engage in conversations regardoing matters of mutual interest.
.....................................................................................................................................................................Last webpage revision: 08/18/06