Eduard Halimi

Eduard Halimi (born 8 December 1972) is an Albanian lawyer and former Democratic Party member of the Albanian Parliament. He served as a member of parliament from 2009 until 2018 and as Albania's Minister of Justice from 2011 until 2013 in the Berisha II Government.

Early life and education Halimi was born in Korçë on 8 December 1972. He received a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Tirana in 1995. He also graduated from the Police Academy in 1997 and completed studies at the Albanian School of Magistrates in 2000. In 2025, he promoted the legal-practice book Becoming a Good Lawyer at Luarasi University.

Political career In October 2005, Halimi was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Sali Berisha.

From 2009 to July 2011, he served as secretary of the parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs, Public Administration and Human Rights. As justice minister, he also served as a member of the High Council of Justice.

During his time as minister, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights wrote to Halimi in 2012 urging Albania to make its legal-aid system more accessible to vulnerable people.

Halimi was re-elected to parliament in the 2013 and 2017 elections. In the 2017–2021 legislature, he represented Berat County and was listed as deputy chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs, Public Administration and Human Rights.

Judicial reform After the Democratic Party entered opposition in 2013, Halimi was one of its main representatives on justice-sector issues. In 2014, he said that the opposition would join the special parliamentary commission on judicial reform following intervention from international representatives. In 2015, during debates on constitutional amendments for the justice reform, Halimi criticised proposals by the governing majority, arguing that the process risked political capture of justice institutions. He was the Democratic Party's vice-chairman of the Justice Reform Commission in 2015.

Resignation from parliament On 9 February 2018, Halimi resigned from parliament, saying that he would pursue a private international law project in the Balkans. Later that month, the Central Election Commission gave the mandate to , who replaced Halimi in parliament.

In March 2021, ahead of the 2021 Albanian parliamentary election, Halimi returned to Democratic Party campaign work as a political coordinator but said that he would not be a candidate for parliament.

Personal life Halimi has two children.