By Anjeze Gojani Abstract Kosovo is an emerging economy and capital importing country, which declared its independence just over a decade ago. Due to its long-unresolved statehood status, the economic development goals were for many years overlooked. Despite the realistic lack of efforts in fulfilling the goal of economic growth, the legal framework for the [...]

By Robert Muharremi Why Kosovo needs robust legislation on state responsibility for human rights violations. On December 7, 2018, Kosovo’s minister of justice made a public commitment to include two new laws in the Ministry’s 2019 legislative program: a law on state liability for human rights violations and a law that would give the Constitutional [...]

Luljeta PLAKOLLI-KASUMI Recent developments and success stories related to Kosovo sports convey the necessity to explore the legal infrastructure related to sports. Only this year, Kosovo made an international breakthrough in sports by getting admission in both UEFA and FIFA, and its sportswomen made history by winning the first ever-gold Olympic medal in Rio2016. Last [...]

Commercial arbitration may still be unpopular in the Balkans but Kosovo offers a promising forum for dispute resolution, say Ahmet Kasumi and Anjezë Gojani, president and secretary of the Permanent Tribunal of Arbitration at the Kosovo Chamber of Commerce. Kosovo's legislative framework The Kosovo Law on Arbitration, passed in 2007, provides a reliable legislative environment [...]

Author(s): Solomon Ebere, Blerina Xheraj I. INTRODUCTION In a 2005 study on international commercial arbitration, UNCTAD predicted that the growth of investment treaty arbitration would have a significant impact on international commercial arbitration, but that the nature of that impact was not yet clear.1 That same year, Barton Legum, a former Chief of the NAFTA [...]