Dr. Ari WEINSTEIN

Ari Weinstein received a PhD in International Relations, Political Science, and Modern Southeast European History from Nottingham Trent University in the UK in December of 2016, and he currently is a full-time Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Epoka University.  

The University of Idaho in the US granted him an MA in Political Science in August of 2005, while the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the US awarded two BAs – one in Economics and one in History – to him in December of 1998. 

Dr. Gelanda SHKURTAJ

Gelanda Shkurtaj, is an academic lawyer and public notary, living in Tirana (Albania). On October 2018, she held the position of Civil and Roman Law lecturer at “Epoka” University. She accomplished the full Masters’ Degree diploma in Biology at Tirana University in 1997. During 2002-2011 she worked as a Court Expert and Technical Adviser at the General Prosecutor’s Office in Liguria Region (Italy) and simultaneously she obtained the second full Master’s Degree diploma in Law, in 2009. In 2011 she obtained an LLM in international and national Taxation Law, at Genoa University. In 2012 she moved to Abruzzo Region (acting as a managing authority) in Italy, where she kept the position of Senior Project Manager of E.U.Funds (Instrument of Pre-accession), Cross Border 2007-2013 Program. She established her notary office on 2013 in Tirana, and the main field of her activity is the domestic civil law in general and in particular the implementation of contracts related to commercial and tax law. Since the academic year 2012-2013 she was an Lecturer of Fiscal and Business Law at New York University and Epoka University, in Tirana. In 2018 she obtained a PHD in Legal Anthropology, at the Academy of Albanological Studies. She is interested in contract and tax law, and in Albanian Kanun. She had published some articles, regarding Kanun, the question of property in Albania, migration, the domestic insolvency law etc.