Ylli Dautaj

Visiting Associate Professor

Dr. Ylli Dautaj currently teaches as a Visiting Associate Professor with Penn State Law. He was previously an adjunct professor with Penn State Law and a full-time lecturer in commercial law at Brunel University London. Prior to that he was a teaching fellow at Durham Law School in the UK.

Dautaj graduated with a Ph.D. from University of Edinburgh as a stipendiary scholar of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities. Before that he studied law at the National University of Ireland (UCC), Uppsala University, and Penn State Law.

Dautaj practices out of Stockholm, Sweden. He represents clients in planning, drafting, negotiating, and disputing commercial agreements — in both litigation and arbitration, domestic and international. He represents individuals, private enterprises, State-owned enterprises, and States in various litigation matters and international arbitrations, including matters incidental or ancillary to arbitration. Ylli has represented clients in and with investor-State arbitration matters, shareholders’ and JV-disputes, jurisdictional objections (investment and commercial arbitration), post-award proceedings (set-aside and enforcement/execution), oil and gas matters (e.g., regarding transit, investor protection, and other contract related matters), etc.

Dautaj has published extensively with various leading law journals, books, and book chapters; for example, with Kluwer International, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, Creighton Law Review, Fordham International Law Journal, Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs, Cornell International Law Journal, The International Lawyer, Manchester Journal of International Law, etc.