Prof.Dr.iur.Haxhi Gashi Professor of civil Law/Property Law/Commercial Law Legal Advisor Experience Summary Mr. Gashi has experience in both teaching and training aspects. Since 2002 he is acting as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Prishtina and number of other Colleges. From 2011 he is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pristine. From July 2015 he is elected Dean of Faculty of Law/University of Pristina. Mr. Gashi is specialized in property law (PhD) and security Credit Transactions by Mortgage and Pledge and other means of security (LLM) and civil law. He teaches students in the field of civil law-property law, contract law and civil procedure law. From 2011 he is co-teaching in property law and contact law with international professors from England and USA in the LLM program in Contracts and Commercial Law organized by USAID/SEAD in cooperation with Faculty of Law of the University of Pristine. He has been involved in training programs for new legislation in Kosovo organized by KIPA (Kosovo Institute for Public Administration) in cooperation with OSCE. He also has exercised his job as Trainer for training new trainers organized by Kosovo Law Center in 2003. Since 2011 he is a temporary trainer for training Kosovo Judges through Kosovo Judicial Institute on the Implantation of new civil laws (property law, contract law, civil law procedure) organized by OCSE in cooperation with Kosovo Judicial Institute. Mr. Gashi since October 2012 is member of the Professional Committee for Bar Exam for Civil Law. Mr. Haxhi Gashi has a significant experience in law, including drafting legislation, drafting sub-normative acts, amending legislation, implementation, training /teaching and advising in significant aspects of the legal issues. The law experiences include following fields: economic law (Business organization, trade, competition, tax, budgetary, socio-economic laws, privatization, security transaction Mortagage- Hipotheka, and related laws), civil law (contract law, property Law, inheritage and family law), civil procedure law (Law on dispute procedure, law on non-dispute procedure and the execution law) and related laws and sub-normative acts. Mr.Haxhi Gashi has a significant experience for economic laws sinc he used to work for USADI projects in support to the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo from 2005-April 2014. He advised the Budget and Finance Committee, Committee of Legislation and the Committee for Economic Development. In particular he advised on review and amending specific economic and commercial laws including but not limited: Law on Public Finance and Accountability, Law on Banks, Law on Internal Audit, Law on Enterprises-Business organizations, Law on deposits, Law on Micro Finance, Law on Pledge Registration, Privatization Laws Law on Agency of Privatization, Law on Special Chamber Special Court, Law on reorganization of the Socially-owned enterprises and privatization etc. Within the scope of drafting legislation he has exercised his experience since 2003 when started to work In the Primeminister s Office of Kosovo as Senior Legal Officer. Since that time he had the opportunity to head a many working groups for drafting legislation under the Government level. The most of area of that legislation covered the subject matters form Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning. Since 2005 Mr. Gashi used to work in the Assembly of Kosovo as Legal Advisor with the purpose advising Assembly Committees, particularly Committee of Trade and Industry, Budget 1
Committee, Legislation Committee. He acts on the matters regarding amending legislation, drafting legislation and oversee the implementation. Mr Gashi, has experiences on the implementation of legislation and resolving disputes on the economic and civil law in the court perspective. He used to work in the Supreme Court of Kosovo form 2002 to 2003 as Judge Assistant Employment History Dean of Faculty of Law/University of Pristina July 2015- present - Management of the faculty of Law - Other issues regarding managing and overseen process of high education in the Faculty and related to the level of University Professor, Faculty of Law /University of Pristina ( 2011-present) Mr. Gashi acts as a Professor with following tasks: Teaching students in property law, contract law, and civil procedure law. Chairperson of the Board of the University of Peja Haxhi Zeka (October 2013 2015) Management of the university Other issues regarding managing and overseen process of high education in the University Professor, Faculty of Law /University of Pristina in Cooperation with USAID/SEAD/ LLM program on contracts and commercial law ( 2011-2012) Mr. Gashi acts as a Co-Professor with international professors from England and USA with following tasks: Teaching students in property law and contract law/negotiation and drafting commercial contracts and other documents (comparative law - common law and Kosovo law) Legal Advisor-part time, Empower Credit Support Program/USAID Feb-2015- Dec 2015 o Legal Advisor for the Government and Assembly of Republic of Kosovo. Tasks have included: advising Government and the Assembly on the issues as follows: drafting legislation related to the credit support and establish Fund for Credit Guarantee amending legislation other related issus 2
Legal Advisor, Bearing Point/EMSG/ Deloitte (2005-April 2014) Legal Advisor for the Assembly of Republic of Kosovo. Tasks have included: advising Committee of Trade and Industry, Budget Committee, Legislation Committee on the issues as follows: drafting legislation amending legislation advising for other legal issues regarding to built and improve the implementation of legislation supporting in other tasks related to issues mentioned above American Chamber of Commerce/ member of the Steering Council of the AmCham Kosovo's Alternative Dispute Resolution Center. From- December 2014- continue Senior Legal Officer, Prime Minister Office of Kosovo (2003 2005) Mr. Gashi acted as Senor Legal Officer in the legal issues as follows : Drafting legislation Legal advices for the Primeminister Legal advices in certain issues for Executive Branches of Kosovo Institutions Coordination of the work of the Legal Office with other legal offices in the Ministries Coordination of the Legal Office with other international legal offices with presence in Kosovo Establishment the working groups for drafting legislation Heading working groups for drafting legislation Comments and analyses of legislation Mr. Gashi since October 2012 is member of the Professional Committee for Bar Exam for Civil Law. - Training of the candidates for Bar Exam in the Civil Law - Evaluation of the Exam for passing the Bar Exam Member of the Academic Council/ Faculty of Law /University of Pristina ( 2002-2006; 2006-2009; 2009-present) Mr. Gashi acts as member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Law with following tasks: Discussion and approval of the most important decisions regarding education process Preparing and approval of the academic program for the Faculty of Law Other related issues Professor, Faculty of Law /University of Prishina (2002-2011) 3
Mr. Gashi acted as a Professor with following tasks: Teaching students in property law, contract law, and civil procedure law. Professor (part time/temporary), Business College, (2006-2009) He exercised his experience in the following issues: Teaching students in property law, contract law, and civil procedure law. Secretary of Civil Law Department, Faculty of Law/Uni Prishtina (2002 2006, 2009-2012) Acted on the organizing of the activities for functioning the civil law department Decision/making for the teaching process Other related issues GIZ (German Organization for International Cooperation)/Legal Reform Project (Temporary). - Mr. Gashi has worked as a First Expert and Coordinator of the Team Experts for Drafting the Commentary of the Family Law in Kosovo. Work completed and Published by GIZ in December 2012. OSCE Mision in Kosovo/First expert and Head of the working grup (October 2013-February 2014) - The Commentary of the Law on protection against domestic violence in Kosovo Trainer, Kosovo Judicial Institute (KJI)- Temporary (2011- present) Mr. Gashi acts as Trainer for Training the Kosovo Judges (the Municipal Court, the District Court and the Supreme Court Judges). He acted as a Trainer for training on the implementation of the Civil and Commercial laws, particularly new property law in Kosovo. Trainer, UNDP-Temporary (2012 present) Mr. Gashi acts as Trainer for Training the Kosovo Judges (the Municipal Court, the District Court and the Supreme Court Judges). He acted as a Trainer for training on the implementation of the Civil and Commercial laws, particularly new property law in Kosovo. Trainer, OSCE in cooperation with Kosovo Judicial Institute- Temporary (2011-present) Mr. Gashi acts as Trainer for Training the Kosovo Judges (the Municipal Court, the District Court and the Supreme Court Judges). He acted as a Trainer for training on the implementation of the Civil and Commercial laws, particularly new property law in Kosovo. 4
Trainer, Kosovo Law Center (2002-2003) Mr. Gashi acted as Trainer for Training New Trainers. He acted as a Trainer for training on the implementation of the program so-called Law Street Judge Assistant, Supreme Court of Kosovo (2002-2003) Responsible for the following issues: Processing court cases helping Judges on managing documents, referring cases drafting court decisions other related matters Member of Commission for Academic Policy and Commission for Strategic Planning and Reforms, University of Prishtina, (2000-2002) Tasks as follows: Analyzing and Planning High Education Process Reforming education process in terms of European Integration Education Decision-making on the strategic matters on the High Education in the University Education Dr.iur (PhD), Bremen University (Germany)- (December 2011). - Subject of study - civil law - Subject of PhD thesis A comparative analysis of the transformation of state/social property with a focus on privatization and restitution in the post-communist countries: Kosovo as a sui generis case of privatization - Grade of the PhD defense magna cum laude/very good performance LLM (Mr.sc) University of Prishtina, 2005. - Subject of study civil law - The topic of thesis- security transaction Specialization, Bergen University (Norway), 2004. - Subject of study civil law - The topic of thesis- security interests in the credit transaction Bar Exam, Kosovo Judicial Institute, 2003. - Subject of study Passed exam for Judges, Persecutor and advocate 5
Lawyer, University of Prishina (2001) - Subject of study- General Principles of the Law (Basic Program of Law/4 years) Trainings Mr.Gashi has experiences in the following trainings: - University of Edinburg/ The United Kingdom, Study Visit, June 2014 - University of Graz, Austria- One month study visit, February 2008 - Bemen University, Germany PHD study visit, September October 2007 - University of Pristine / Centre for Excellence in Teaching - Course on teaching strategy, February 2006 - University of Graz, Austria Study visit for new corriculumes in Faculty Of Law, May 2006 - USA, Chicago- Chicago Kent University Faculty of Law- Clinical Law Development Program, May 2005 - Arizona State University, USA, Research-study, and American English and Culture Program (AECP), Jul-August 2003 - University of Graz, Austria, One month study visit, Jun 2003 - University of Roskilde, Denmark, Training on academic reforms, May 2002 - Kosovo Law Centre, Course on Civil Law procedure, April Jun 2001 - Department of the Trade and Industry of the USA in cooperation with the Faculty of Law, University of Pristine, Semester Course on Contemporary International Business Transactions, March Jun 2001 - ABBA/CEELI in Cooperation with the Faculty of Law, University of Pristine, Course on legal writing and reasoning, March April 2000 Publication Mr Gashi has published several publication as follows: - Book, A comparative analysis of the transformation of state/social property with a focus on privatization and restitution in the post-communist countries: Kosovo as a sui generis case of privatization, PhD Dissertation. Publication in process by the University of Bremen through Publishing House NOMOS, Germany 2013 - Book, Family Law (Co-author of book), Publisher by Faculty of Law, University of Pristina, 2007 - Commentary of the Law on protection against domestic violence, sponsored by OSCE, published by Agency for Gender Equality, 2014. - Commentary of the Family Law, Key Expert and Coordination, 2010-2012. 6
- Registry of property rights and other real rights in Kosovo: A critical comparative view, ongoing process of publication, Hanse Law Review, Vol 11, no. 1, Germany 2016. Language skills - The conflict of laws regarding the privatization of socially owned enterprises: Amendments to the Law on the Special Chamber of the Supreme Court, the Law on PAK and other relevant laws, Presented in the Conference held GAP Institute, April 2011, Pristine, the Albanian version is published in the Law Review of the Faculty of Law of the University of Pristina, no. 2/2011. The English is published by Hanse Law Review, Vol 8, no. 1, Germany 2012 - Property Law in Kosovo: The influence of German Civil Code (BGB) into Kosovo Law, Article presented in the International Conference hold in Prishtina from 28 June to 30 June 2010. Submitted and accepted for publication in the Hanse Law Review, Vol 8, no.2, Germany 2013 - Protection of private property in cases of expropriation: analyses of Kosovo legislation in relation to international standards of protection of private property-case law of ECHR, Journal of Law of the Law Faculty The Law, No. 4, Prishtina, December 2009 - Security credit transactions, Non-possessory pledge (article), Journal of Law Law nr. 1, Pristine, 2006 - New Civil Law in Kosova (article), Presented at the University of Bergen Norway, 2004 - Review the Book, Real rights (property) (author Prof.Dr. Abdulla Aliu), Journal of Law Law no. 4, Pristine, 2004 - Some specifics of security interest in movable property under Kosova law in compare to Western countries, Journal of Law Law no. 4, Pristine 2004. Mr Gashi has language skills as follows: - Albanian Native Language - English - Serbo-croations 7