EFTHYMIOS PAPASTAVRIDIS
Assistant Professor of International Law
In May 2025 Dr Efthymios (Akis) Papastavridis was appointed Assistant Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). Previously he was teaching international law at the Faculty of Law, NKUA as a teaching associate both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
In the period 2021-2024 Dr Papastavridis was the Principal Investigator of the Research Project ‘EU Maritime Security post-2020" (EUMARSEC 2020+)’, hosted by the Athens PIL Center, Faculty of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (https://www.eumarsec.law.uoa.gr/).
Dr Papastavridis is also a visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of University of Oxford since 2016. He currently teaches International Law of the Sea at the BCL/MJur Programme and he has previously taught International Law of Armed Conflict at the BCL/MJur Programme and Public International Law at the undergraduate level. He was an Oxford Martin Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford during the period 2016-2022.
Also, Dr Papastavridis is since 2019 legal consultant of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Global Maritime Crime Programme. In addition, since 2010 he has been working as a Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens, Bureau of International Relations, under the supervision of Professor Emmanuel Roucounas.
He was formerly Expert Counsellor on Public International Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece (2016-2019). In that capacity he participated in various international meetings (e.g., on Cyprus, the Prespa Agreement) and in bilateral talks on maritime delimitation. He was also Part-time Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace (2010-2016) and Post-doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2012-2015).
Dr. Papastavridis has read law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at University College London. In 2009 he was awarded a PhD in Public International Law from University College London
email: epapast[at]law.uoa[dot]gr