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2026 R-EU-R Jean Monnet Module Intensive Course

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

The fourth R-EU-R course will occur for 5 days between the 21st and 30th of January at the Nomiki Vivliothiki building, Mavromichali 23, Athens.

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

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

The cost of 80 euros will cover: participation in the lectures and coffee breaks, 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. Fundamental rights and Constitutional Courts
  5. Rule of Law and democracy in the EU
  6. Rule of Law in the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU
  7. Rule of Law in the Economic and Monetary Union
  8. European Arrest Warrant and Fundamental Rights impact

SPEAKERS

Rebecca - Emmanuela Papadopoulou

Associate Professor of EU Law
University of Athens

Dr. Anastasios Brakatsoulas

Post Doctoral Researcher
University of Athens

Dr. Silvia Bartolini

Research Fellow
University of Lille

Metaxia Kouskouna

Emeritus Professor of EU Law
University of Athens

Dragos Calin

University of Bucharest
Faculty of Law

Dragos Calin

University of Bucharest
Faculty of Law

Dragos Calin

University of Bucharest
Faculty of Law

Dragos Calin

University of Bucharest
Faculty of Law

GUEST SPEAKERS

Laurent Pech

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

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

Dragos Calin

University of Bucharest
Faculty of Law

Audrey Pietrzak-Gratadour

Prof of Public Law
Universités Catholiques Lille

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

Dragos Calin

University of Bucharest
Faculty of Law

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”

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. 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.

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.

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.

Dragos Calin

PhD in Law (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law), analysing the dialogue between constitutional courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union; Judge, Bucharest Court of Appeals; EU Law Trainer, National Institute of Magistracy; Associate Researcher of the Institute for Legal Research of the Romanian Academy – Centre for European Legal Studies; Co-President of the Romanian Judges’ Forum Association. His research and expertise focuses in particular on EU law, rule of law, constitutional law, human rights and mediation.

Audrey Pietrzak-Gratadour

Prof of Public Law, Universités Catholiques Lille

Her research primarily focuses on international organisations, comparative constitutional law, and defence and security issues, with particular attention to the rule of law, democratic governance, and the protection of human rights. She holds a joint PhD in Public Law from the University of Lille and Université Laval (Canada), where her doctoral research analysed the normative action of the United Nations Security Council in times of crisis.

Her work explores defence and security from a broad legal perspective, with a particular interest in the role of international organisations and the interaction between constitutional frameworks, international law, and security policies (use of force, security governance, early warning mechanisms). More broadly, her research also examines contemporary transformations of democracy and constitutional mechanisms of participation and accountability, in France and in comparative perspective. She has also been involved in the coordination and academic supervision of seminars and training programmes at the French Institute for Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN), contributing to interdisciplinary reflection on defence and security issues