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DPhil (Oxf), LLM (NYU) LLM LLB (Athens)
Antonios joined the Law Faculty as University Lecturer in Public International Law in September 2012. He is a fellow of St Anne's College.
Antonios studied law in Athens, New York, and Oxford, during which time he also worked as a Researcher for the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens and New York, and for the UN Office in Geneva. He then took up a position as a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, with which he remains affiliated, and subsequently at University College London. He has also taught as a visiting Lecturer at King’s College London and the University of Paris (Paris X – Nanterre).
Antonios is an Advocate at the Athens Bar in Greece and has worked on a number of cases before international and domestic courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, EU courts, ad hoc and ICSID arbitral tribunals, and the High Court of England and Wales.
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2013
CJ Tams and A Tzanakopoulos, 'Contemporary Positivism and the Jus ad bellum' in J d'Apremont, J Kammerhofer (eds), International Legal Positivism in a Postmodern World (Cambridge University Press 2013) (forthcoming) [...]
The paper assesses the legal regime governing recourse to force from the perspective of 'contemporary positivism'. It provides a basic introduction to positivist international law and its critique and charts how positivism, faced with decades of anti-positivist critique, has adjusted itself. More specifically, it analyses how in response to criticism, positivism has embraced a more 'liberal' approach to the identification of sources. Applying these findings to the specific problem of military force, the paper outlines the main challenges facing a positivist understanding of the jus ad bellum. These are (i) the loss of predictability of the legal rules (''anything goes"), which is a consequence of the liberalisation of sources; and (ii) the attraction, even among positivist scholars, to invoke "quasi-legal" arguments based on legitimacy, morals or political necessity.
A Tzanakopoulos and CJ Tams, 'Domestic Courts as Agents of Development of International Law' (2013) 26 Leiden Journal of International Law (forthcoming) [...]
The introductory paper to a symposium issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law, edited by the authors, dealing with the function of domestic courts as agents for the development of international law. The paper 'sets the scene' for the contributions to the symposium, which seek to trace the impact of domestic courts in the development of canonical areas of international law, such as jurisdiction, immunity, state responsibility, the law of international organisations/human rights, and the law of armed conflict/conduct of hostilities. It discusses the formal quality and actual influence of domestic court decisions on the development of international law, and introduces the concept of 'agents' of international law development. This is the analytical perspective that the contributions to the symposium adopt.
ISBN: 0922-1565
A Tzanakopoulos, 'Falling Short: UN Security Council Delisting Procedural Reforms Before European Courts' (Sanctions & Security Research Program 2013) [...]
A Report prepared for the KROC Institute's Sanctions and Security Research Program, assessing reforms to the 1267/1989 sanctions regime of the Security Council against the standards required by European Courts, including the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.
A Tzanakopoulos, 'Greek Court Acquits Immigrants Who Escaped Appalling Detention Conditions' (2013) EJIL: Talk!
D Sarooshi and A Tzanakopoulos, 'International Organizations before United Kingdom Courts' in A Reinisch (ed), The Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations in Domestic Courts (Oxford University Press 2013) (forthcoming) [...]
This paper surveys and analyses the case law of United Kingdom courts on questions of personality and immunity of international organizations, as well as on the question of liability of members for the acts of the organization, focusing in particular on the various cases surrounding the collapse of the International Tin Council in the 1980s.
ISBN: 978-0-19-967940-9
Research:
Public International Law with focus on the Law of State Responsibility, the Responsibility of International Organizations, the Law of International Courts and Tribunals, and Human Rights Obligations.
Public International Law @ Oxford
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