Penn Condition Law master of guidelines alumnus joins Durham Regulation School in United kingdom

University PARK, Pa. — Ylli Dautaj, Penn Condition Regulation in University Park LL.M. (grasp of legal guidelines) Class of 2018, was not too long ago appointed as a Teaching Fellow at Durham Legislation University in Durham, United Kingdom.

Dautaj will start off instructing Earth Trade Organization Regulation and Worldwide Financial commitment Legislation in September. Durham’s application is rated amid the prime 50 in the entire world, in accordance to the QS Earth College Rankings.

“Durham is also in a school town like Penn Point out. I really wanted to be in a city that is focused close to the university,” explained Dautaj.

This new chapter will insert an additional university to Dautaj’s resume exactly where he’s continued a noteworthy lawful schooling. In advance of enrolling at Penn State Legislation, Dautaj attained his bachelor’s degree in regulation at Örebro College in Sweden, his LL.B. (bachelor of rules) at Cork College in Ireland, and an LL.M. at Uppsala University in Sweden. Dautaj is now a doctoral candidate at the College of Edinburgh in Scotland and will post his thesis at the close of July 2022.

Stephen Barnes, assistant dean of graduate and global packages at Penn Condition Regulation, said, “I run into Ylli wherever I journey: in the U.S., Sweden, India, and as far absent as Kazakhstan. He is the Sven Hedin [famous 20th century Swedish explorer] of lawful teachers.”

Dautaj’s new function at Durham will give him the possibility to commit his time to what he enjoys most: academia. He commenced training in 2019 at Uppsala College and has ongoing to acquire instructing alternatives. “I’m mostly interested in lecturers. I create exploration papers and textbooks and I have completed this through my occupation. I was an academician in India for two a long time,” mentioned Dautaj.

The evening right before Dautaj was set to graduate from Penn Condition Legislation, Barnes educated Dautaj of a new teaching option as an adjunct professor at Nirma College Institute of Legislation in Ahmedabad, India — a associate college of Penn State Regulation — for the tumble 2018 semester. Barnes mentioned, “Ylli experienced hardly ever traveled to India ahead of, and with no giving any further information about this possibility in Ahmedabad, Ylli stated, ‘I’m all in. How do I utilize?’”

Dautaj acknowledged a six-thirty day period appointment from Purvi Pokhariyal, founding dean of the School of Legislation, Forensic Justice, and Policy Research and previous dean of Institute of Legislation, Nirma University. Pokhariyal stated, “Dautaj is an fantastic scholar who brought new power and zeal in mooting.” He coached Nirma’s very first Vis Moot crew and traveled to Vienna with the workforce in its first year. Dautaj prolonged his time in India for a different 6 months in Nirma and then took up one more calendar year-long appointment at Jindal World-wide Law Faculty.

“Most of us have 24-hour days and do the job in 1 time zone,” explained Barnes. “Somehow, Ylli manages to squeeze 36 hours into 1 day.”

Although working his regulation agency, DER Juridik, of about 20-25 associates in Stockholm with his brother, Alban Dautaj, Penn Condition Regulation LL.M. Course of 2018, and completing his doctoral studies in Edinburgh, Dautaj experienced legal lifestyle in a managerial situation. Dautaj claimed he gave his whole interest to aiding the firm’s lawyers with their perform. In purchase to get his possess operate carried out, he would get to the business office by 5 a.m. Once the workday was in excess of, he would get the job done on academics from 8 p.m. right up until 11 p.m. “I’m hunting ahead to when I can have the complete working day to do tutorial perform and operate with pupils,” he claimed.

As an adjunct professor at Penn State Law, Dautaj taught “Global Industrial Arbitration and Financial investment Treaty Arbitration.” Voted by pupils as receiver (“honoree”) of the LL.M. Instructing Award by the LL.M. Course of 2022, his pupils expressed appreciation for his blend of scholarship and simple competencies instruction.

LL.M. 2022 graduate Shakhzoda Tuychieva of Uzbekistan also appreciated Dautaj’s individualized method to every single student. “The professor-pupil interaction is exceptional,” claimed Tuychieva. “His courses are beneficial not only for these learners having their 1st steps in the arbitration field, but also for knowledgeable arbitrators. Professor Dautaj’s classes have energetic conversations and are loaded with a lot of new information and facts.”

Soaring 3rd-yr juris health practitioner college student and Skadden summer months affiliate Victoria Crynes shared how Dautaj handled his 70 Penn Point out Law students with pizza and ice cream. “In times like these, we see that Professor Dautaj is a frequent person — who just occurs to be unbelievably amazing and talented,” claimed Crynes.

While Dautaj is completely ready to mostly aim on instructing and research, he stated he understands the great importance of equilibrium amongst academia and apply.

“I imagine that it is difficult to make a adjust through regulation if you do not recognize and take pleasure in its theoretical underpinnings. Conversely, I do not think that you can instruct effectively without having possessing fingers-on practical expertise. The two notify just about every other and neither can function in isolation. A lot more than that, even though, I just enjoy to read through, perform on my ideas, examination them, and write my analysis of a given problem — that is my passion and enthusiasm. With any luck ,, another person, somewhere will be persuaded either by the information or the course of action.”

Dautaj carries on to publish extensively in regulation journals all over the world, such as The Worldwide Attorney, Northwestern Journal of Business and Regulation, Fordham Global Law Journal, Cornell Intercontinental Legislation Journal, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Dispute Resolution Journal, and Manchester Journal of International Financial Law, amid others.

He has published a person e book, “Buyers, States, and Arbitrators in the Crosshairs of Intercontinental Investment Legislation and Environmental Protection,” and has a forthcoming e book titled “Electronic Hearings — Civil Method and Arbitration Methods,” to be published afterwards this yr by Norstedts Juridik, a foremost publisher in Scandinavia. Dautaj, together with fellow Penn Condition alumnus Bruno Gustafsson, and two other co-authors, will have a e-book launch for “Digital Hearings” on Oct.13 in Stockholm. They also strategy to manage a ebook start in New York. Penn State Legislation will be a information husband or wife for the two gatherings.

Dautaj credits Penn Condition Legislation with supplying him the instruments and prospects to be productive in the authorized subject.

“Penn Point out Legislation gave me anything,” he claimed. “There is totally not a probability on the face of this earth wherever I would be the place I am currently without having Penn State. It is as uncomplicated as that. Everything from legal assessment to how you address persons to how you interact with learners, how you present appreciation — I necessarily mean anything.”