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2026 R-EU-R Jean Monnet Module Summer School

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

The fifth R-EU-R course will occur for 5 days between the 1st and 9th of September 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. Definition of Rule of Law: aspects and challenges
  2. Rule of Law and Romania
  3. Rule of law crisis & rule of law restoration in Poland 
  4. Rule of law and legal bindness of Art2TEU
  5. Rule of law as a principle and value: a global approach
  6. Judicial activism in Poland and Romania
  7. Academic Backsliding as a Manifestation of the Systemic Rule of Law Decline in Hungary

SPEAKERS

Rebecca - Emmanuela Papadopoulou

Associate Professor of EU Law
University of Athens

Dr. Anastasios Brakatsoulas

Post Doctoral Researcher
University of Athens

Renée Resch

LLM, PhD Candidate
University of Athens

Maria Kouli

LL.M. in European Law
University of Athens

Mahaud Tomassini

LL.M. in European Law
University of Athens

Carla Pervu-Milostean

Carla Pervu-Milostean

LL.M. in Int. & European Law
University of Athens

GUEST SPEAKERS

Jakub Jaraczewski

Senior Research Coordinator at Democracy Reporting International

Raluca Bercea

Professor of EU Law
University of Timisoara

Eleftheria Neframi

Professor of European Law at the University of Luxembourg

Faidon Varesis

Assistant Professor in Private International Law and Dispute Resolution at the University of Cambridge

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.

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.

Maria Kouli

Maria Kouli holds a degree in Public Administration from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, is currently undertaking her master’s studies in European Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is a member of the European Public Law Organization in Athens. Her academic focus centers on European Public Law, specifically analyzing the EU Conditionality Regulation and its legal implications through the lens of the Hungarian rule of law saga.

Mahaud Tomassini

Mahaud Tomassini studied Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, completing both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees over five years. She then pursued an LL.M. in European Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Alongside her academic work, she has been involved with several organisations working to protect the rights of people on the move and people seeking asylum, with a particular interest in migration, human rights, and European law.

Carla Pervu-Milostean

Carla Pervu-Milostean is a law graduate of the West University of Timisoara, having specialized in law with a bachelor’s thesis entitled The Independence of Justice in the Court of Justice of the European Union’s Case Law. She is currently pursuing an LL.M. in International and European Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. This interest was further cultivated through her active participation in prestigious international moot court competitions, notably the Central and Eastern Moot Court Competition held in April 2024 in Prague, Czech Republic. During this competition, she engaged in simulated proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union under Article 267 TFEU, addressing critical issues concerning the independence of national judiciaries.

Jakub Jaraczewski

Jakub Jaraczewski is Senior Research Coordinator at Democracy Reporting International, a Berlin-based NGO dedicated to supporting democracy and the rule of law worldwide.

As part of the re:constitution programme, he works with journalists and policymakers to improve public debate on the rule of law in the European Union, with a focus on the situation in Central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary and Poland. His insights have been featured in the New York Times, El PaC-s, Volkskrant, Die Welt, The Guardian, Politico, Euronews, and other leading European and global media. In his prior academic work, he has been a researcher at his alma mater, Adam Mickiewicz University (PoznaE, Poland) and taught constitutional law and human rights at several Polish universities. Jakub continues to engage with academia with occasional teaching and exchange with scholars on matters related to public law in Europe.

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.

Eleftheria Neframi

Eleftheria Neframi is Professor of European law at the University of Luxembourg since 2012. Prior to joining the University of Luxembourg, she held a post as professor at the University Sorbonne Paris-Nord (Paris 13).
She graduated in law from the University of Athens and obtained her PhD at the University Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas. She holds an LLM in European Law (University Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas) and an LLM in International Economic Law (University Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne). She attained full professorship through national competition in France (agrégation) in 2004.
Eleftheria Neframi is director of the LLM in European Litigation. She is visiting professor at the University Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas and at the NKUA. She is publishing in the fields of European external relations,
European litigation and interaction of legal orders.

Faidon Varesis

Faidon Varesis is an Assistant Professor in Private International Law and
Dispute Resolution at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, where he serves as a Faculty Board Member and a Deputy Director of the LLM. He is also a Fellow and Lecturer in Law at St John’s College, Cambridge. He was educated at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, obtaining an LLB and an LLM in Civil Law (summa cum laude), and at the University of Oxford, where he completed the MJur (with Distinction), before obtaining his PhD from the University of Cambridge. Faidon Varesis is an Assistant Professor in Private International Law and Dispute Resolution at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, where he serves as a Faculty Board Member and a Deputy Director of the LLM. He is also a Fellow and Lecturer in Law at St John’s College, Cambridge. He was educated at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, obtaining an LLB and an LLM in Civil Law (summa cum laude), and at the University of Oxford, where he completed the MJur (with Distinction), before obtaining his PhD from the University of Cambridge.