Executive Director & Adjunct Professor of Law
Graduate Program in Intercultural Human Rights
B.A., University of Tirana, Faculty of History and Philology, highest honors
LL.B., University of Tirana, Faculty of Law, honors
LL.M., St. Thomas University School of Law, summa cum laude
Dr. iur. Candidate, University of Potsdam, Faculty of Law
Professor of Human Rights Law and Human Trafficking Law, the Valedictorian of the Charter Class of the LL.M. in Intercultural Human Rights, Roza Pati joined St. Thomas Law School in 2002. She is the Executive Director of the Graduate Program in Intercultural Human Rights and has brought in a wealth of experience in academia and administration as a professor and a former Member of Parliament and a Cabinet Member serving as the Secretary of State for Youth and Women. Her interest in international law and international relations, development and human rights is obvious in her experience with several international institutions and non-governmental organizations, such as UNFPA, OXFAM, Mercy Corps International, International Rescue Committee as well as in her scholarly work.
She has lectured and held speeches in numerous conferences, panels and symposia, and is the author of several publications including her forthcoming book Due Process and International Terrorism (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2009), The New Dialogue of Civilizations, Roza Pati & Joe Holland, eds., (2004); articles like Fair Trial Standards under Human Rights Treaty Law and the ICTY: A Process of Cross-Fertilization? in The ICTY and Human Rights: Towards a Fair Trial in International Criminal Procedure? 147 (Thomas Kruessmann ed., 2008), Rights and Their Limits: the Constitution for Europe in International and Comparative Legal Perspective , 23 Berkeley J. Int’l L. (2005); The Miami Declaration of Principles on Human Trafficking: Its Genesis and Purpose, 1 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 5 (2006), Addressing the Scourge of Human Trafficking: The Challenge Ahead, 1Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 75 (2006), etc.
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