Dr Pavlos Eleftheriadis
University Lecturer in Law
Pavlos Eleftheriadis is University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Mansfield College. He teaches and publishes in the philosophy of law, constitutional law and European Union law. He is also a barrister in England Wales and practises in EU law from Francis Taylor Building in the Temple.
Before joining Oxford he was a lecturer at the London School of Economics. He has been a visiting professor of European Law at Columbia University and a visiting fellow in Hellenic Studies at Princeton. He was awarded the Bodossaki Prize for Law in 2005. .
His book Legal Rights was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Reviews have appeared in 121 Ethics (2011) 652-657 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/659366) , in 30 Law and Philosophy (2011) (http://www.springerlink.com/content/05u1314j76v15242/fulltext.pdf) and in 55 American Journal of Jurisprudence (2010) 201.
He is the co-editor (with Julie Dickson) of the collection of essays The Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law (Oxford University Press, 2012) and the managing editor of the looseleaf encyclopedia D. Vaughan and A. Robertson (eds.), The Law of the EU, vols. 1-6 (Oxford University Press, 2007-2013).
He has been an active commentator on the Eurozone crisis in the press. His article on the Greek crisis, 'Only a New Political Order Can Rescue Greece', was published by the Financial Times on 28 May 2012 (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a02f585a-a5bd-11e1-b77a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1z5cL7XUl). His article on 'Greece's Anticapitalist Turn' was published in the Wall Street Journal on 21 January 2013 (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324624404578255452954037808.html)
You can follow him on twitter at @PEleftheriadis
Publications
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2013
P Eleftheriadis, 'Democracy in the Eurozone' in WG Ringe & P Huber (eds), Legal Challenges Arising out of the Global Financial Crisis: Bail-outs, the Euro, and Regulation (Hart Publishing 2013) [...]
In December 2012 Four Presidents of the European Union (of the European Council, the Commission, the Central Bank and the Eurogroup) issued a paper outlining steps for a ‘genuine monetary union’ promising among others better democratic accountability for its institutions. This essay asks if an entity like the European Union - and the Eurozone within it - can indeed become democratic. I distinguish between two approaches to democracy, first as collective self-government or, second, as set of egalitarian institutions. The essay argues that the German Federal Constitutional Court supports the first theory and for that reason is very cautious of the idea of bringing democracy to the European Union. The collective view believes that without a single people, there cannot be self-government. The second theory accepts the primacy of domestic democracy but allows, by contrast, for international institutions of democratic accountability that support domestic democracy. I offer some arguments for this view and conclude that the four Presidents are not mistaken in endorsing the ambition of democratic accountability for the Eurozone. The European Union is a union of peoples. A union of this kind can become more democratic without seeking to become a democracy.
P Eleftheriadis, 'Global Rights and the Sanctity of Life' in Glenn Cohen (ed), The Globalization of Health Care (Oxford University Press 2013) (forthcoming)
P Eleftheriadis, 'Hart on Sovereignty' in Andrea Dolcetti, Luís Duarte d’Almeida and James Edwards (eds), Reading HLA Hart's 'The Concept of Law' (Hart Publishing 2013) (forthcoming)
2012
P Eleftheriadis, 'A Right to Health Care' (2012) 40 Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 268
P Eleftheriadis, 'Austin and the Electors' in Michael Freeman & Patricia Mindus (eds), The Legacy of John Austin's Jurisprudence (Springer 2012)
Interests
Teaching: Constitutional and Administrative Law; European Union Law; Philosophy of Law
Research:
Legal and Political Philosophy, Constitutional Law, EU Law
