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......BALKANS .. MENTORING HOPE PROJECT |
..............PROJECT
NGO: .............UN21 SECTION . ......................of the ......AMERICAN SOCIETY of .....INTERNATIONAL LAW |
.............Contact
persons: William Slomanson, past Chair, ASIL UN 21 Section (1995-2006); Dr. Enver Hasani, Rector and Professor of Law, Pristina University; Vjosa Osmani, LL.M., Advisor to the President. |

![]() Photo by William Slomanson. All rights reserved. Gatwick en route Pristina 2002 |
![]() ...........Map courtesy of www.theodora.com/maps. ...............................Used with permission |
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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. |
| MENTOR: name / e-mail / location / status | MENTEE: name / e-mail / location / status |
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Timothy Kearley / TKearley@uwyo.edu
/ |
Ardit Memeti / arditm@hotmail.com
/ Macedonia / Univ. of Skopje / LL.M candidate, Univ. of Pittsburgh |
| Leo Malagar / lmalagar@yahoo.com / |
Arianit Osmani / arianit_o@hotmail.com
/ Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Name / jiwlp@pacbell.net | Ilir Gaxha / igaxha@hotmail.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Paul Anderson / P.A.Anderson@lse.ac.uk / PhD student, Law Dep't, London School of Economics | Bleta Brovina / bletabrovina@hotmail.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Name / jg@clark.edu / | Jeton Bytyqi / jetonbyty@hotmail.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Timothy Cornell / Timothy_cornell@hotmail.com / | Dua Dauti / dua.dauti@osce.org / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Name / kjenkins@law.emory.edu / | Liridon Shurdhani / liridoni@lawyer.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Mark McKenna / mckennam@slu.edu / | Luljeta Plakolli / plakollil@yahoo.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Karine Ardault / karine.ardault@wanadoo.fr / Jr. Lecturer, Public Int'l Law, Int'l Criminal Law & EC Law, University of Paris-Sud-XI | Mahir Tutuli / mahirtutuli@yahoo.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Christie Edwards / edwardcj@tjsl.edu / second year law student Thomas Jefferson School of Law (tjsl) | Vegim Kraja / v_kraja@hotmail.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Reza Torkzadeh / torkzar@tjsl.edu / senior law student tjsl | Valdet Hoxha / Valdet_hoxha@hotmail.com / Kosovo Pristina Univ. |
| Molly Dinan / dinanmz@tjsl.edu / senior law student tjsl | Amir Zec / Amir.zec@bih.net.ba / Bosnia |
| Adam Jaffe / jaffeaj@tjsl.edu / senior law student tjsl | Vjollca Istrefi / Vjollca_i@yahoo.com / Macedonia |
| Kathy Joy / kathy12268@aol.com / graduate tjsl | Mehmet Berisha / Meti_pe@hotmail.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Jean Binkovitz / jgatwood@adelphia.net / | Agron Kelmendi / Agron_k2@yahoo.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Viola Trebicka (Tirana) / viola.trebicka@yale.edu / first year law student Yale Univ. | Bardhyl Hasanpapaj / Bardhylb2000@yahoo.com / Albania / LL.M. candidate, Univ. Bremen |
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Jerry Kovacs / jerry_kovacs@yahoo.ca /
Professor, School of Business & Legal Studies Dep't / Algonquin College, Ottawa, Canada |
Xhylizare Selimi / x_selimi@hotmail.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Hon. Marilyn Kaman / Marilyn.Kaman@courts.st.mn.us / US trial judge & former Kosovo judge | Vjosa Osmani / vjosao@yahoo.com / Kosovo / LL.M candidate, Univ. of Pittsburgh |
| Marion Seiller / marionseiller@yahoo.fr / former Pristina Univ student | Evgjenie Thaqi / Evgjenie_thaqi@yahoo.co.uk / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| No mentor (seeking Intellectual Property mentor) | Ahmet Kasumi / ahmetkpss@yahoo.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Jordan Daci, Lecturer of Public Law & History of Institutions, Luarasi University & Expert for Int'l Relations and European Integration, Albanian Ministry of Finance | Adnan Isufi / i_adnan79@hotmail.com / Kosovo / Pristina Univ. |
| Judith DiGennaro <judydgh@sbcglobal.net> / Professor of Law (former tjsl professor) |
Valon Kashtanjeva / valon00@hotmail.com
/ law student Pristina University |
| Giancarlo Guarino / guarino@unina.it / Professor of Int'l Law & Organizations, Univ. Naples Federico II | Blinera Osmani / blinera_o@yahoo.com / law student Pristina University; Agron Kelmendi / agron_k2@yahoo.com / law graduate Pristina University |
|
James Hassan / hassanjs@tjsl.edu
/ 3L tjsl and PSU 2004 |
Qerkin Berisha / qerkini_berisha@hotmail.com
/ law student Pristina University |
| Kimberly Wachowski / wachowkr@tjsl.edu / senior law student tjsl | Rrahmon Salihu / monny95@hotmail.com / law student Pristina University |
| Marc Adesso / adessomj@tjsl.edu / second year law student tjsl | Rrezarta Pushkolli / rrezarta_p@hotmail.com / |
| Patricia Guerra / guerrapc@tjsl.edu / tjsl graduate and PSU 2003 | Besfort Rrecaj / brrecaj@yahoo.com |
| Susanna Mendiola / susannamendiola@yahoo.com / senior law student tjsl | Mentor Ibrahimi / mentoribrahimi@hotmail.com |
| Elizabeth Koren / korenej@tjsl.edu / 2005 graduate tjsl | Abit Hoxha / abit_hoxha@yahoo.com |