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2025 R-EU-R Jean Monnet Module Summer School

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

The third R-EU-R course will occur for 5 days between the 1st and 6th of September at the Nomiki Vivliothiki building, Mavromichali 23, Athens.

Each day will have a total of 6 hours lectures, seminars, workshops and discussion. Between the lectures there will be coffee breaks and a light lunch. In total, there will be 30 hours of teaching.

Applications will be processed on a “first come, first served” basis.

The cost of 120 euros will cover: participation in the lectures, coffee breaks and light lunch, as well as the optional certificate of attendance.

SUBJECTS

Subjects to be taught are as follows:

  1. EU mechanisms ensuring the respect for the rule of law
  2. EU’s preventive and response tools. Use, misuse and non-use of the Rule of Law toolbox
  3. Rule of law related to specific Member States of the EU (Romania, Poland, Hungary)
  4. Rule of law and its link with ECHR
  5. Rule of law and European Public Prosecutor
  6. Fundamental rights and revision of the Constitution
  7. Rule of Law and democracy in the EU
  8. Rule of Law in the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU
  9. Rule of law in the Economic and Monetary Union

SPEAKERS

Rebecca - Emmanuela Papadopoulou

Associate Professor of EU Law
University of Athens

Manolis Perakis

Associate Professor of EU Law
University of Athens

Metaxia Kouskouna

Emeritus Professor of EU Law
University of Athens

Dr. Anastasios Brakatsoulas

Post Doctoral Researcher
University of Athens

Dr. Ioannis Kourtis

Post Doctoral Researcher
University of Athens

Renée Resch

LLM, PhD Candidate
University of Athens

GUEST SPEAKERS

Laurent Pech

Dean of Law and Head of the Sutherland School of Law
University College Dublin

Raluca Bercea

Professor of EU Law
University of Timisoara

Athanasia Dionysopoulou

Associate Professor Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, NKUA

Spyridon Vlachopoulos

Professor at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT

APPLICATION FORM

Prof. Rebecca - Emmanuela Papadopoulou

Rebecca-Emmanuela Papadopoulou completed her undergraduate studies at the School of Law of the University of Athens. She obtained a Licence Spéciale in European Law (Institut d’Etudes Européennes, ULB), a Licence Spéciales in Administrative Law (School of Law, ULB) and a Diplôme de Doctorat in EU Law (School of Law, UCLouvain). Her PhD thesis was awarded a prize by the Hellenic University Association for European Studies (ESCA-Greece) and the Foundation for the Promotion of European Studies, for its contribution to the study of European integration.

Since 2000, she is a member of the Department of International and EU Law Studies of the Athens School of Law. She is currently an Associate Professor and she teaches EU Law in the framework of the graduate, post-graduate and Erasmus program. Her courses include EU Institutional Law, EU Economic Law, EU Tax Law, Fundamental Rights Protection in the EU, and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (mainly EU Migration Law and EU Criminal Law). She was a Visiting Professor at the International Tax Center (Leiden) and she teaches EU Law at the National School of Public Administration.

Her areas of interest focus on the principles and the functioning of the EU legal order and its relationship with national laws, the EU internal market (mainly issues of free movement and competition), EU tax law, human rights protection in the EU, the rules on the Economic and Monetary Union, and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (mainly migration, asylum granting and EU criminal law). She is the author of several monographs and articles and she has given lectures in the framework of national and international conferences.

She participated as a senior researcher in the EU-funded projects ELISE (2002-2005) and CHALLENGE (2004-2008).

She is the Scientific Responsible of the project «Migration Challenges from Eastern Mediterranean: EU Policies and New Responses» – MICEMEU- (April 2022 – March 2025), co-funded by the EU Erasmus+ Programme, and the Academic Responsible of the NKUA Jean Monnet Module “REUR” (Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights”) – (2023-2026)

Member of the Hellenic Association for European Law; Founding Member and member of the Supervising Committee of the Association of Scientists of European Studies; Member of the Board of the Academy of Transparency and Human Rights of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO); Member of the Board of Directors of the “Jean Monnet Center of Excellence”

Prof. Manolis Perakis

Manolis Perakis completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Athens (2001) and his post-graduate studies at both the University College London (LLM, 2002) and the University of Athens (PhD, 2008). In 2003, he served as trainee in the Cabinet of the Greek judge and President of the Court Mr. Vassilios Skouris. Manolis Perakis is currently teaching EU Law in the University of Athens as Associate Professor. His areas of interest are EU institutional and internal market law, EU human rights protection law, EU external relations law, Economic and Monetary Union, and the EU Court of Justice case-law. He is the author of several monographs and articles, and he has given lectures in the framework of national and international conferences. 

Manolis Perakis also practices law as attorney-at-law. He is a senior associate in a law firm and he is actively involved in all public procurement and privatisation transactions, advising mainly on EU and administrative law aspects. Furthermore, he is involved in numerous ICC and local arbitrations as the Court’s assistant.

Manolis Perakis is currently the Editor-in-Chief of “European Politeia”, a bi-annual journal of European law, public affairs and society published by the European Public Law Organization under the scientific supervision of the Greek Center of European Studies and Research (EKEME) of the EPLO. He is also a member of the Board of the “Association of Scientists of European Studies”, as well as a member of the “Hellenic the Hellenic Association of European Law”, the “Greek Association of International Law and International Affairs”, and of the “Association of Greek Commercialists”

Since 2014 he is academic supervisor to the Athens Law School’s student team in the annual “European Law Moot Court Competition”.

Prof. Metaxia Kouskouna

D.E.A. Droit Européen, Paris II, Phd School of Law EKPA

Permanent teaching staff member of the Department of International and European Law studies (EU Institutional Law, EU Economic Law, EU Environmental Law: in the framework of the graduate, post-graduate and Erasmus Programme).

Visiting Professor (Environmental legislation) at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania Crete (MAICh/CIHEAM), Fellow of IALS, University of London.

Lawyer (Athens Bar Association 1979-2003).

Dr. Anastasios Brakatsoulas

Anastasios Brakatsoulas was born in Athens in 1975. He studied between 1995-2003 in the UK: LL.B. at the University of Hertfordshire, LL.M. at the University of Manchester (EU law) and Postgraduate Certificate in Education (FE/HE) at Institute of Bolton. Between 2002-4 he taught at various colleges in the UK (Wilberforce College, MANCAT, St Anselms College).

In 2006 he completed the academic recognition of his degrees in Greece (DIKATSA exams) and in 2007 he completed the LL.M (EU Law) course at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).

In 2021 he received his doctorate from NKUA in the field of European Union law. His thesis was titled: “National Constituttionalism and European Constitutionalisation in EU law” and it was published by “Nomiki Vivliothiki” publishers in 2022. All his dissertations have been awarded with grade distinction. Since 2021, he is assistant lecturer for the LL.M. program (EU law) of NKUA.

He is a lawyer at the Athens Bar Association since 2007.

He speaks fluently English and Bulgarian and Italian and Spanish at a very good level.

Dr. Ioannis Kourtis

Dr. Ioannis Kourtis is an Attorney at Law and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Law School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). The subject of his postdoctoral research is on “the impact of European citizenship on the deepening of European integration”. He is also a Senior Researcher in Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence of NKUA. He studied law and graduated with distinction from the Law School of NKUA (LLB, Law) in 2010, from which he also received two Masters’ Degrees in European Union Law (2014) and in Greek Civil Law (2015). Furthermore, he holds a PhD with Distinction in European Union Law from NKUA (2020). It is noted that he completed his Doctoral studies with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation.

In addition, he delivers lectures on various topics of European Union Law in undergraduate and master programs of the Law School of NKUA.

Renée Resch

Renée Resch is a PhD candidate at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In parallel, she works as an associate at Simmons & Simmons in Düsseldorf and is part of the Employment, Litigation & Compliance Team. She advises clients on all aspects on national and international litigation. Renée studied law at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and Düsseldorf. During her studies, she gained valuable experience while working at the German Embassy in Athens and at an international law firm in Düsseldorf. After her second state examination, she obtained her Master of Law in International and European Legal Studies from the University of Athens. She is currently writing her doctoral thesis on the rule of law and conditionality in the EU legal order.

Laurent Pech

Laurent Pech is Full Professor of Law, Dean of Law and Head of the Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin. He is also a Visiting Professor of Law at Bordeaux University and the University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas; a Senior Research Fellow and co-director of the Rule of Law Clinic at the CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest; and the co-director of The Good Lobby Profs which he co-founded in 2021.

Prof. Raluca Bercea

Raluca Bercea is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the West University in Timișoara, where she teaches European Union Law, International Protection of Human Rights and Comparative Law and a Romanian lawyer. She is the director of the first bilingual BA program in Romania, in European and International Law, established in 2023. Since 2021, she has supervised joint PhD students with colleagues from France and Italy. She was a visiting professor at the Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne University. She is a lawyer and the director of Timișoara Center of the National Institute for Lawyers’ Training. As an expert of the Council of Europe, she has carried out several training projects for lawyers and magistrates in the field of human rights. Her latest book is The Law and Bioethics of End-of-Life Decisions, Raluca Bercea (ed., with Angelika Reichstein and Andreea Vertes Olteanu), Intersentia, Cambridge, 2024.

Athanasia Dionysopoulou

Athanasia Dionysopoulou is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Faculty of Law), where she teaches courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She also teaches economic criminal law as an adjunct professor at Hellenic Open University. She has published in the fields of economic criminal law, criminal procedure and human rights, as well as in European Criminal Law.

In addition to her academic role, she serves as Scientific Associate in the Hellenic Parliament, commenting on submitted bills and handling questions on national provisions submitted by foreign governments. She is since 1994 an attorney-at-law (Member of the Athens Bar Association) specialized in criminal law. She speaks English, German and French.

Spyridon Vlachopoulos

Spyridon Vlachopoulos (1968) is a Doctor of Law at the University of Munich (1995) and Professor at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University (Athens), specializing in Public Law. He also teaches at the Hellenic National School of Judges. He is an author of a large number of books and articles in the field of public law, such as the constitutional history, the judicial protection in public procurement law, the citizen’s right to petition, the constitutional framework of privatization, the transparency and protection of personal data, the interpretation of the Constitution and the fundamental rights. He represents cases before the Council of State and Administrative Courts. He is the President of the Committee for the Evaluation of the Law-Making Process, member of the Greek Personal Data Protection Authority and elected Member of the Board of Directors of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.