Ilir Barjaba
ORCID ID University of Tirana
Albania

Ilir Barjaba is a legal scholar and practitioner specializing in constitutional law, electoral law, and European integration. He currently serves as a Legal Advisor to the Parliament of Albania and is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Tirana, where his research focuses on the impact of electoral systems on the right to vote and democratic legitimacy in transitional democracies.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Northwestern University School of Law. In 2023, he was selected to represent the Albanian Parliament in a fellowship at the European Parliament, where he worked on legal and institutional matters within the EU framework.

Dr. Barjaba has extensive teaching experience as a lecturer in public law, EU law, and banking law at several higher education institutions, including the Albanian School of Magistrates and leading universities in Albania. His research and publications focus on electoral systems, voting rights, democratic governance, and the interaction between legal institutions and political accountability in the Western Balkans.