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REBECCA-EMMANOUELA PAPADOPOULOU

Associate Professor of European Law

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”

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

BOOKS

  • Introduction to the Law of the European Union (2nd ed.) (with V. Christianos and M. Perakis), Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2021
  • Coordination of economic policies in the EU and the financial crisis, Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2017
  • Soft Law in the legal order of the European Union, Nomiki Vivliothiki,  2012
  • Criminal law after the Treaty of Lisbon, Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2011 (with D. Kioupis and D. Mouzakis)
  • Cooperation in the Law of the European Union. An attempt to a typology, Ant. N. Sakkoulas, 2005
  • Principes généraux du droit et droit communautaire, Bruylant/Sakkoulas, 1996

ARTICLES

  • Extra-contractual liability of the European Union against individuals for CFSP acts imposing “smart sanctions”, European Law 2023, p. 12
  • The activation of EU Directive 2001/55 on Temporary Protection in the case of Ukraine, in D. Anagnostopoulou (ed), Challenges in the Migration and Asylum Policies and the Values of the EU at the International, EU and national level, Papazisi, 2022, p. 175
  • Political, Legal and Economic Criteria for joining the EU: is there a hierarchy? in M. Perakis (ed.), Joining, Staying in, and Leaving the European Union: Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022
  • The role of soft law in the sector of State Aid, in V. Christianos/M. Rodopoulos (eds), State Aid Law, Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2020, p. 123
  • The European Union and Space: A “star wars” saga? European Journal of Law Reform 2019, p. 505
  • Public and private enforcement in competition law in the light of Directive 2014/104/EU: a relationship of complementarity or conflict? Dikaio Epixeiriseon kai Etaireion 2017, p. 1430
  • Legislative compliance with the Economic Adjustments Programmes for Greece: an overview and an attempt at a typology (2010-2013) (with S. Stratakis and I. Mournianakis), European Politeia, 1/2015, EPLO, p. 23-54
  • Conflict between economic freedoms and human rights in the legal order of the European Union, Actes de la Société Hellénique de Recherche Philosophique et Historique du Droit, Sakkoulas/Nomos/L’Harmattan, 2015, p. 1129-1154
  • The Schengen system and the EU policy on visas, Proceedings of the International Conference “Developments and Challenges in the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice”, 2013, Thessaloniki, p. 341-358
  • L’encadrement européen de la fiscalité directe des Etats membres: l’autre côté du miroir? (Commission/Estonie, C-39/10), Revue des Affaires Européennes 2012/2, p. 427
  • Free competition in the European Community in the light of the democratic principle: convergences and divergences, European Politeia 2/2009
  • National parliaments in the institutional system of the European Union after the Lisbon Treaty, European Politeia 1/2008
  • Souveraineté et surveillance dans le cadre de la Communauté européenne, ou comment concilier deux exigences contradictoires, Annuaire Français de Droit International 2005, p. 699
  • The Royal Olympic Cruises case: a "skeleton in the cupboard" of the European Court of Justice ? Revue Hellénique de Droit International 2005, p. 241
  • Situations purement internes et droit communautaire: un instrument jurisprudentiel à double fonction ou une arme à double tranchant ? Cahiers de Droit Européen 2002, p. 95
  • La dimension culturelle prise dans les engrenages institutionnels de la construction européenne. A cheval entre souci d'intégration et exigences d'intergouverne- mentalité, in Facteurs culturels dans l'action normative de l'Union européenne. Les frontières mouvantes des identités en Europe, N. Scandamis et al. (eds), Sakkoulas/Bruylant, 2002, p. 245

e-mail: manpapad[at]law.uoa[dot]gr

 

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