Current S.J.D. Students
Bandar Alrasheed (Saudi Arabia) received his first law degree from King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1998 and his Masters of Law from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2002. He worked as a junior attorney at Mohammad Bin Saud Alrasheed Law Firm in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 1998 to 1999. In 2003, Alrasheed was appointed to the Saudi Arabian Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers in Riyadh as a legal advisor. His dissertation proposal focuses on the reform of Saudi Arabian corporate law.
Vjosa Osmani (Kosovo) is a 2004 law graduate of the University of Prishtina Faculty of Law, where she was a member of the 2003 Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team, and a 2005 graduate of the Pitt Law LL.M. program. She served as a legal interpreter with the U.N. Department of Justice in Kosovo, an international humanitarian law expert with the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the legal advisor to the Head of the Council of Europe Mission in Kosovo. Osmani holds part-time teaching positions at Riinvest University and the University of Prishtina, as well as serving as a commercial law trainer for USAID. For four years, beginning in 2006, she served as the Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the President of Kosovo. Currently, she is a member of the Kosovo Parliament. Osmani will be conducting her research on “The CISG: An Approach to Achieving Uniformity in Interpretation.”
