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The Center would like to thank the US State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) for awarding a competitive grant to UC Law SF to support a partnership with the University of Prishtina in Kosovo In October, UC Law SF's Dean of Experiential Learning Gail Silverstein, Prof Betsy Candler, and an independent expert, Bob Dean, traveled to Kosovo to kick off the project The UC Law SF team met with representatives from three Kosovar law schools as well as with public advocacy groups and law school graduates The team reviewed curriculum, conducted training-oftrainers for Kosovar law professors, discussed incorporating legal analysis into doctrinal courses, and evaluated the legal clinics.

Next, the Dean of the University of Prishtina and two faculty colleagues spent a week in San Francisco in January, observing numerous clinics, participating in roundtables with doctrinal faculty, and debriefing after attending law school classes The group also met with public defenders and prosecutors in San Francisco and with clinical faculty at Berkeley Law School.

In May, two additional faculty, Linda Tam of Berkeley Law School and UC Law SF Associate Dean of Global Programs Binyamin Blum, travelled to Kosovo to continue discussing clinical legal education and incorporating skills into doctrinal classes.

The year's activities culminated in an international training-of-trainers sympsoium in San Francisco, covering mediation, human rights, and restorative justice. Two faculty members from the University of Prishtina spent a week in San Francisco in May/June participating in the symposium, along with representatives of Ghana and Haiti. A third Kosovar faculty member presented live on Zoom.