Dr Aikaterini Tsampi joins Department of International Law

As of October 2017, Dr Aikaterini (Katerina) S. Tsampi has been appointed Assistant Professor of Public International Law in the Department of International Law. She will be assuming teaching responsibilities in the Public International Law LLM and continuing her own research on Human Rights Law.

Human Rights Law has been focus in both Dr Tsampi’s academic and professional career thus far, her prior studies having taking place in Greece and France. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens, after completing a part of her undergraduate studies at the University of Strasbourg (Notions Fondamentales de Droit International, Européen et Comparé). She holds an LLM in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from the University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas, where she was awarded a “Bourse d’excellence” scholarship by Ile-de-France, and also holds an LLM in Specialised Public Law at the University of Bordeaux IV and University of Athens.

On July 3, 2017 she was awarded a PhD by the University of Strasbourg in Human Rights and her PhD thesis, supervised by Professor Patrick Wachsmann, was entitled “The Principle of Separation of Powers in the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights [in French]”.

While writing her PhD thesis, Dr Tsampi was employed as a full-time legal officer in the Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR), with her aspiration being to bridge academic legal knowledge with human rights practice. The GNCHR is the independent advisory body to the Greek State on matters pertaining to human rights protection and has been operating since 2000 in accordance with the UN Paris Principles, as an A’ Status National Human Rights Institution. Its 64 Plenary members are nominated by institutions whose activities cover the field of human rights (NGOs, trade unions, independent authorities, universities, bar associations, political parties, Parliament and the Αdministration). In this framework, Dr. Tsampi has been both writing and participating in activities on numerous thematic topics and has been actively cooperating with different national and international institutions.

This article was published by the Faculty of Law.

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