Leposava Ognjanoska Stavrovska

MAAA Member Leposava Ognjanoska Stavrovska (PhD candidate and Lecturer at the International Balkan University Skopje - MKD), who is SUSI US Foreign Policy Alumni, successfully implemented a joint course in Comparative Constitutional Law, in partnership with Prof. Dr. Madelyn Ferrans from the Fairleigh Dickinson University (NJ, US).

This cooperation was initiated as an outcome of the SUSI program for Scholars, which Mrs. Leposava attended last year, whose purpose is to strengthen curricula and to improve the teaching about the United States in academic institutions.

A selected group of students from the International Balkan University – Faculty of Law were given a unique opportunity to delve into the most important issues concerning different constitutional systems and their relationship to history, culture, politics, and human rights.  Within three intense months, students from both universities addressed how different constitutions and constitutional systems deal with specific topics, such as division of power, judicial review, human rights protection and anti-discrimination. 

The course was implemented using #COIL method (Collaborative Online International Learning) - an innovative teaching and learning methodology that facilitates virtual global exchange, aimed at bringing together different cultural settings.