Athanasios Peftinas

Athanasios Peftinas is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Lady Margaret Hall. Before joining Lady Margaret Hall, he taught at Wadham College and St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he also completed his DPhil in Law. He previously read for the MJur at Oxford, an MSc in Law and Economics at the University of Macedonia and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and an LLM in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Democritus University of Thrace. He is a qualified lawyer and member of the Thessaloniki Bar Association in Greece, where he practised for two years before pursuing an academic career.

His research focuses on public law and legal theory. His doctoral thesis, titled 'Unconstitutional Legality', examined the theoretical foundations of constitutional deviations and revolutionary constitutional change, and developed a theory of lawful departures from the constitution. His current research builds on this work by exploring its implications for jurisprudence and comparative constitutional law, with particular attention to questions of constitutional authority, legal continuity, and constitutional transformation.

Athanasios teaches, Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Law and Liberty, Roman Law, Criminal Law and Theory of Criminal Law.