{"id":27200,"date":"2023-11-28T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=27200"},"modified":"2023-11-30T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:00:07","slug":"university-leader-in-kosovo-visits-mitchell-hamline-to-explore-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/28\/university-leader-in-kosovo-visits-mitchell-hamline-to-explore-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"University leader in Kosovo visits Mitchell Hamline to explore collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Agron Bajraktari, rector of the University of Applied Sciences in Ferizaj, Kosovo, visited Mitchell Hamline earlier this fall.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mitchell Hamline hosted Dr. Agron Bajraktari, rector of the University of Applied Sciences in Ferizaj, Kosovo, earlier this semester as a next step toward establishing a possible collaboration between the schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very important to have this connection,\u201d said Bajraktari, in an interview. \u201cWe want to learn the best practices from your law school.\u201d<\/p>\n

The connection between the institutions is Professor Kim Vu-Dinh, who has been working with the university in Kosovo since her previous faculty post in Arkansas. She was named a Fulbright specialist in 2019 when the University of Applied Sciences was a newly formed university in a nation that was barely 10 years old.\u00a0Vu-Dinh worked with faculty and academic administration in helping them explore structures that would give students hands-on learning opportunities and exposure to future employers in the private sector while generating income for the fledgling school.<\/p>\n

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Ferizaj, Kosovo<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThis institution works extensively with applied sciences and engineering, and it has an interest in growing its curriculum to help Kosovars understand U.S. intellectual property law, and how U.S. tech transfer offices work,\u201d said Vu-Dinh. \u201cPart of helping Kosovo grow economically is to get more people there with rich understandings of things that might help them grow into markets outside their borders.<\/p>\n

\u201cMitchell Hamline is an important place for that kind of law and others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vu-Dinh also notes the two schools have kindred connections in their shared goals of using experiential learning to give students the skills they need to do the jobs they\u2019ll have upon graduation. \u201cI think having a relationship between our schools would provide perspective for our students and theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Agron Bajraktari (right), rector of the University of Applied Sciences in Ferizaj, Kosovo, met with Mitchell Hamline interim President and Dean Jim Hilbert during his visit this fall. He also met with students and several other faculty members.<\/p><\/div>\n

Bajraktari met with interim President and Dean Jim Hilbert during his visit to Mitchell Hamline, as well as with students currently in the Economic Inclusion Clinic. He also spoke with other faculty, including Professor Forrest Tahdooanippah from the Intellectual Property Institute and Professor Mark Edwards, whose scholarship has focused on transitional justice and Soviet Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

Vu-Dinh is working with Edwards to create a transitional justice course about the region, covering the period from the 1990s, when the region was at war, to the present.<\/p>\n

The professors hope the proposed course\u2014which they anticipate would be available to both blended and in-person students\u2014will become one of many courses in the study of transitional justice, a field of law focused on the development of political and legal rights following large scale violations of human rights, such as war.<\/p>\n

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Professors Kim Vu-Dinh and Mark Edwards<\/p><\/div>\n

Edwards and Vu-Dinh also hope the student demand for their course will enable them to teach a follow-up study course in Kosovo, where students would be able to engage in conversations with the members of the Supreme Court of Kosovo and visit prisons and privatization courts as well. Already, students in Vu-Dinh\u2019s Economic Inclusion Clinic are working remotely with schools from Kosovo as clients, helping one school explore best practices in setting up U.S.-styled tech transfer offices. Students will work with another school next semester to explore and understand the potential for U.S.-based social impact funding and its legal requirements under U.S. law.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour law school has a lot to offer,\u201d added Bajraktari. \u201cI hope this isn\u2019t my last time to visit Minnesota.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitchell Hamline hosted Dr. Agron Bajraktari, rector of the University of Applied Sciences in Ferizaj, Kosovo, earlier this semester as a next step toward establishing a possible collaboration between the schools. \u201cI think it\u2019s very important to have this connection,\u201d said Bajraktari, in an interview. \u201cWe want to learn the best practices from your law … <\/p>\n

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