NEWS AND EVENTS

On 9 February 9 2026, Columbia Global Center Athens partnered with the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School, the Clooney Foundation for Justice, and the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens to hold "The Criminalization of Journalism and Dissent - TrialWatch Clinical Network Forum."

Join us on 9 February 2026 at 18:00 at the Great Hall of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Main University Building, 30 Panepistimiou St) for the event “Democracy, the Rule of Law, Human Rights. The Council of Europe in the Face of Contemporary Challenges”, followed by the award ceremony conferring the “Lord Byron”…

📢 Join us on Monday, 9 February 2026 from 16:30 to 17:30 in the “Alkis Argyriades” Amphitheatre (Panepistimiou 30) for an open session organised by the Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School, the Clooney Foundation for Justice and the Columbia Global Center Athens, in collaboration with the Athens Public International Law Center (Athens…

We are pleased to announce that the graduation ceremony of the postgraduate students of the LL.M. in International & European Law of the School of Law - NKUA for the academic year 2024-2025 will take place on Tuesday 31 March 2026 at 14:00 at Oikonomidou Hall (ground floor), Hall of Theoretical Sciences, Sina 3.  

Attendance at the…

On Friday 16 January 2026, the Athens Public International Law Center (Athens PIL), National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and the World Maritime University-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute (WMU-GOI) co-hosted at the Senate room of the central building of the NKUA a ‘BBNJ Roundtable Seminar’ to celebrate the entry into force on 17…

On Monday, 12 January 2026, we had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Beatrice Bonafé (Paris–Panthéon-Assas University) as a guest lecturer in the context of the 2025–26 Fundamentals of Public International Law course of the LL.M. in International and European Law at the School of Law, NKUA.

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition invites students from EU institutes of higher education to participate in the Student Challenge 2026, linked to the conference “Green, Just and Competitive – A Blueprint for Europe’s Economies and Societies” taking place in Brussels on 29 January 2026. 

Students enrolled at EU…

Students enrolled on the LL.M. programme will have the opportunity to attend as observers the 65th session of the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. This subsidiary body of the General Assembly deals with states' outer space activities.

Those interested in participating will be provided…

🌊The Athens Public International Law Center (Athens PIL), National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and the World Maritime University-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute (WMU-GOI) will co-host a #BBNJ Roundtable Seminar on Friday 16 January 2026 at the Senate room of the central building of the NKUA in Athens.
The hybrid BBNJ Roundtable…

The course “EU External Relations Law” of the “LLM  in International and European Law” program (2025-2026) proudly welcomes Frank Hoffmeister, Director of the Legal Department of the European External Action Service, who will deliver the lecture of 14.1.2026 (starting at 17:00) and will be titled: “The EU’S contribution to the upholding and…