
Dr. Roza Pati
Founder & Director, The John J. Brunetti Human Trafficking Academy
Executive Director, LL.M./J.S.D. in Intercultural Human Rights
St. Thomas University School of Law
Member, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (2012-2017), The Vatican
Dr. Roza Pati is a tenured Professor of Law at St. Thomas University School of Law, where she also co-directs the programs of Master of Laws (LL.M) and the Doctorate of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) in Intercultural Human Rights. Inspired by her work and expertise against human trafficking since the early 1990s, Dr. Pati founded in 2010 the Human Trafficking Academy, an institute she continues to direct. She is a former Member of Parliament and Cabinet Member serving as the Secretary of State for Youth and Women of Albania.
Dr. Pati is a polyglot and a prolific scholar, who has written extensively in the field of international law, human rights, comparative law and jurisprudence, human trafficking, international criminal law, and she is a proponent of the New Haven School of Jurisprudence. She is a globally published author of books, book chapters and law review articles in multiple languages and she lectures at academic, governmental and inter-governmental institutions around the world. She earned a Doctorate of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) degree, summa cum laude, at the University of Potsdam, Germany; a LL.M., summa cum laude, at St. Thomas University School of Law, and a B.A., highest honors, and LL.B., honors, at the University of Tirana, Albania. Dr. Pati is Faculty Adviser of the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review and member of the Editorial Board of the international series: Studies in Intercultural Human Rights, published by BRILL/ Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
She is recipient of multiple honors and awards, including the academic award of the Wolf Rüdiger Bub Prize for the Promotion of the New Generation of Legal Scholars, for the best doctoral dissertation, University of Potsdam School of Law, Germany (2009), and she serves in several civil society boards and committees. Dr. Pati was the Commencement Speaker at the 2014 ceremony at the Carlos Albizu University, Miami, and in 2010 at the Luarasi University School of Law (country’s leading private law school), Tirana, Albania.
Some of her publications on human trafficking include:
Global Regulation of Corporate Conduct: Effective Pursuit of a Slave-Free Supply Chain, 68 American U. L. Rev. 1821 (2019); Trafficking in Human Beings: The Convergence of Criminal Law and Human Rights Law, in the SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery (2018, SAGE Publications); People on the Move: The Vulnerability of Migrants and Human Trafficking, in Refugiados, Imigrantes e Igualdade dos Povos – Estudos em Homenagem a António Guterres (2017, Brazil); From the Graceful Sari to the Scourge of Dowry: Indian Women in the Crucible of Tradition, 8 Kerala U. J. of Legal Studies (2015, India); Marshalling the Forces of Good: Religion and the Fight Against Human Trafficking, 9 Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 1 (2014), also published as Blueprint, by Caritas in Veritate Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland; The Categorical Imperative to End Modern-Day Slavery: Subsidiarity, Privatization, and the State’s Duty to Protect, in Der Staat Im Recht. 1219 (2013, Germany); Trading in Humans: A New Haven Perspective, 20 Asia Pacific L. Rev. 135 (2012, Hong Kong); Human Trafficking: An Issue of Human and National Security, 4 Nat’l Security and Armed Conflict L. Rev. 29 (2014); No Cierre Sus Ojos: La Trata Existe–The Global Effort to Combat Human Trafficking: Its Strengths & Weaknesses, in Libro de Derecho Penal Especial (2012, Colombia); Combating Human Trafficking Through Transnational Law Enforcement Cooperation: The Case of South Eastern Europe, in Policing Across Borders: The Role of Law Enforcement in Global Governance (2012, Springer); Beyond the Duty to Protect: Expanding Accountability and Responsibilities of the State in Combating Human Trafficking, in The Diversity of International Law: Essays in Honour of Kalliopi Koufa 319 (2009, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers); Der Schutz der EMRK bei Menschenhandel: Rantsev v. Zypern und Russland, 3 Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (2011, Germany).