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2025 R-EU-R Jean Monnet Module Intensive Course

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

The R-EU-R Intensive Course will occur 3,4,13,14 & 15 of February 2025 (inclusive) at 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. The mechanisms of rule of law by Dr. A. Brakatsoulas
  2. A demolished asylum system – the case of Hungary by A. Bakonyi
  3. Protecting refugees from Ukraine in Hungary by A. Bakonyi
  4. Rule of law and the role of national courts by Dr. A. Brakatsoulas
  5. The judicial review in EPPO Regulation in the light of Art. 47 Charter by Prof. A. Dionysopoulou
  6. The role of the CJEU’s case law in the respect of EU values in Hungary by Prof. A. Raccah
  7. Rise of populism in France by Prof. A. Raccah
  8. The rise of soft law and challenges for rule of law and democracy by Prof. O. Stefan
  9. Rule of law and immigration by Prof. S. Bartolini
  10. Greece’s migration policy: Past, present and future by Dr. V. Saranti
  11. Fundamental rights in the shadow of EU law by Prof. Dr. M. Ruffert
  12. Rule of law and democracy: from values to enforceable principles by Prof. M. Kouskouna

PROGRAM

SPEAKERS

Rebecca - Emmanuela Papadopoulou

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

GUEST SPEAKERS

Dr. Silvia Bartolini

Research Fellow
University of Lille

Dr. Aurélien Raccah

Associate Professor at the Law Faculty of the Catholic University of Lille

Aniko Bakonyi

Refugee Program Director, Hungarian Helsinki Committee

Athanasia Dionysopoulou

Associate Professor Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, NKUA

Dr. Matthias Ruffert

Professor of Public Law and European Law at the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University Berlin

Oana Stefan

Professor EU law, Kings College

Dr. Vasiliki Saranti

Expert-Counselor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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. 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. Silvia Bartolini

Dr Silvia Bartolini holds a PhD in EU law from King’s College London, an MA in Advanced Interdisciplinary European Studies from College of Europe and a MA in International and European law from UCLouvain. She is an Associate Researcher at IEE Université Saint Louis Bruxelles and a Visiting Professor at Université Catholique de Lille where she teaches the law of Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Previously she worked as a référendaireat the European Court of Justice and practiced law in the field of Human Rights Law.She was a visiting lecturer at King’s College London where she was nominated for the Teaching Excellence Award, at BSIS University of Kent, European School of Political and Social Science Lille and Universita di Verona. She is an analyst for EU Law Live. Her research interests focus on migration issues, judicial cooperation in civil matters and more specifically on the protection of abducted children caught within the threads of conflict of the return of the child proceedings under Brussels II ter. Her work was published in top law reviews such as Common Market Law Review, European Human Rights Law Review, European Public Law Review. She is now researching on the emergence of a unified concept of the best interests of the child in EU law.

Dr. Aurélien Raccah

Dr. Aurélien Raccah is Vice Dean for international development, director the International and European Law School (IELS) and associate professor at the law Faculty of the Catholic University of Lille.

He was awarded a PhD in EU law at the European University Institute (EUI) on the following topic: ‘The direct implementation of European Union law by devolved bodies. A comparative approach in Germany, the United Kingdom and France’.

His research currently focuses on the respect of EU values and law, overall through proceedings before the Court of justice of the European Union. He wrote and co-edited books on the Legal risks in EU law, the Lisbon treaty and in EU environmental law.

Aniko Bakonyi

Anikó Bakonyi is a human rights defender from Budapest, Hungary. For the past fourteen years, she has been working for the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the leading Hungarian refugee rights NGO, where she is now the Director of the Refugee Program. Her work focuses on protecting the rights of refugees through human rights monitoring, legal counselling, advocacy, and reporting.

She holds degrees from ELTE University of Budapest (MA in English, Russian and American Studies), Central European University of Budapest (MA in Human Rights) and the Harvard Kennedy School (Mid-Career Master in Public Administration).

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee provides information, legal assistance and representation for refugees. The refugee program team regularly visits shelters around the country to provide information and facilitate access to protection and available services for refugees from Ukraine.

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.

Dr. Matthias Ruffert

Born 1966;

1987-1992 Legal Studies in Passau, Trier (both Germany) and London (King’s College);

1992/1993 Stagiaire at the European Commission (DG XI – Environment);

1994-1996 Legal Traineeship;
1996 Dr. iur. in Trier, Assistant of Prof. Dr. Meinhard Schröder, 2000 Dr. iur. habil. in Trier;

2002-2016 Professor of Public Law, European Law and Public International Law at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany; Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris XI, Sceaux (2006), the Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (2016) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2017);

2011-2014 Jean Monnet Professor, 2013-2016 Academic Co-ordinator of a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence;

2006-2016 Judge at the Administrative Court of Appeal of Thuringia; 2010-2015 Member of the Thuringian Constitutional Court;

2008-2016 Member of the Review Board “Jurisprudence” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/German National Science Foundation (from 2010 onwards as spokesperson); since April 2016 Professor of Public Law and European Law at the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University Berlin; Spokesperson of the Research Training Group “Dynamic Integration (DynamInt at Humboldt University Berlin (funded by the German Research Foundation – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).

Oana Stefan

Oana-Andreea Stefan

Oana.stefan@kcl.ac.uk

Publications: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/oana.stefan/publications/

Professor Oana-Andreea Stefan is the Chair of European Law at King’s College London, and co-director of the Centre of European Law. Since 2022, she is the Associate Dean for Research Impact and Innovation at the Law School, a portfolio facilitating the contribution of researchers to the practice of law and policy development. Oana Stefan held permanent academic positions with HEC Paris (a leading business school in France), College of Europe, University College Dublin, and has held various visiting positions with ESSEC Paris, Bocconi Milano, University of Timisoara, Paris II Assas, and Copenhagen Business School. In 2022, she was the Vincent Wright Chair at Sciences Po in Paris. Prior to joining academia, Professor Stefan has acted as an advisor for European affairs to the Romanian Ministry of Justice and negotiated the justice and home affairs chapters during for the 2007 accession. She holds a doctorate in European Law from University College Dublin, a Master in European Legal Studies from College of Europe and undergraduate law degrees from University of Bucharest and the Sorbonne.

Oana Stefan is a scholar of law and governance in the EU, having written on competition and state aid, energy law, financial regulation, health, and the rule of law. In particular, she looks at how the EU institutions regulate and orient behaviours through informal tools generically known as soft law. Her work has a particular focus on judicial review and judicial politics, as well as, more recently, the role of boards of appeal of EU agencies. Oana Stefan co-led the EU funded Jean Monnet European Network on Soft Law Research which has empirically assessed the use of soft law by national administrations and courts in six countries and four legal fields. She published extensively on soft law including two monographs (Soft Law in Court, Kluwer 2013; EU Soft Law in the Member States, Hart 2021).

Dr. Vasiliki Saranti

Expert-Counselor

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece

E-mail: saranti.vasiliki@mfa.gr | vasiliki_sarandi@hotmail.com

Vasiliki Saranti, Dr. in International Law, is Expert-Counselor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, specializing on migration matters. She has previously served as Expert-Rapporteur at the Refugee Appeals’ Authority and as President of the Refugee Appeals Committees. She has taught Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law at the National Police Academy as Part-time Lecturer and Public International Law at the Hellenic Army Academy as Adjunct Lecturer. She has lectured at the Diplomatic Academy, the Hellenic National Defense College and other fora on asylum and migration issues. She has studied at the Law Schools of Democritus University of Thrace and Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and has obtained her Masters Degree and PhD from the Department of International and European Studies of Panteion University, Athens. She has published five books and around 30 articles on migration, human rights and international law matters.