Deadline to Register: May 11,
2016
Kosovo declared itself a country independent from Serbia
(which still claims it) on February 17, 2008, several years after NATO bombing
and a UN peace-keeping force ended an armed and ethnically-based conflict in the
region in 1999, the last in a series of conflicts that accompanied the breakup
of the former Yugoslavia beginning in the 1990s.
Kosovo’s legal institutions are thus the youngest in
Europe. Some are modeled on European civil law systems; some on U.S. legal
systems, in light of the many U.S. legal advisors and U.S.-based assistance over
the years, to which many judges and lawyers from Minnesota have contributed. In
particular, Kosovo’s criminal trial procedure now includes adversarial features
such as direct and cross-examination, very different from the inquisitorial
system common in the rest of Europe, including in former Communist countries.
This class will describe key features of the system from a comparative law
standpoint and from a practitioner lawyer’s standpoint; and describe challenges
that practicing lawyers (and the overall legal system, including the bar
association) in Kosovo face and how they plan to overcome
them.
Registration will begin at 11:30 a.m.
Presenter:
Merita Stublla-Emini, President, Pristina Regional
Bar Association
Merita Stublla-Emini earned her law degree in 1991 from the Pristina
University Faculty of Law. She is one of the most visible women lawyers in
Kosovo, being currently president of the Pristina Regional Bar Association
(Pristina being the capital of Kosovo). She has worked with law-related groups
from the European Union and the United Nations such as EULEX and UNMIK, and with
the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as in
private practice. She has given presentations in many of the Balkan countries
around Kosovo, and in the United States. She has been particularly instrumental
in trying to bring more women into the legal profession in Kosovo.
CLE Credits:
1.0 Standard CLE Credit Approved | Event Code: 220001
Cost:
Free for all attendees
Remote Participation:
There is no remote participation for this
event.
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Questions? Contact Jennifer Carter | 612-278-6309