We are pleased to introduce the academic supervisors of the three jurisdictions that will be simulated in the eighth edition of the National Moot Court Competition!
The main responsibility of the Academic Supervisor is to prepare the case and the case file, in cooperation with the Special Associates of the three jurisdictions of the Competition.
The Academic Supervisor in the Civil Jurisdiction is Mr Zafirios Tsolakidis. He was born in Athens in 1977. He obtained his law degree in 1999 and his doctorate in 2007 from the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He was elected Lecturer in 2010 and Assistant Professor in 2014, and since 2020 he has been Associate Professor of Civil Law at the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has been a lawyer in Athens since 2002 and a lawyer before the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos) since 2012. His research interests cover traditional civil law, banking law, energy law and commercial contract law. He has written six monographs and has published over 35 studies in legal journals, honorary volumes and collective works.
The Academic Supervisor in the Administrative Jurisdiction is Mr Kyriakos P. Papanikolaou. He is a Lecturer in Public Law at the School of Law of the Democritus University of Thrace, where he teaches constitutional law, administrative law, administrative procedure, public procurement law, environmental law, and introduction to and exercises in public law. He also teaches in the postgraduate programme of the Department of Public Law and Political Science. Two of his monographs have been published, with the following titles: “The Power of Independent Authorities” (2018, pp. XXII + 326, Academy of Athens Prize 2020) and “The Constitutional Foundation of Community Influence on Procedural Law” (2009, pp. XXVII + 615). His studies, mainly on public and European law, have also been published in legal journals and collective volumes. He is a lawyer before the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos), appearing mainly before the administrative courts.
The Academic Supervisor in the Criminal Jurisdiction is Mr Ioannis Naziris. He is an Assistant Professor of substantive and procedural criminal law at the School of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a lawyer. He is a graduate of the Law Schools of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Harvard University. Beyond Greece, he has taught in the USA and Cyprus and has taken part in numerous research programmes, while his publications and conference papers in Greece and abroad cover various subjects in the fields of substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, international criminal law, European criminal law and human rights law. He has been involved for many years in various moot court competitions in different capacities (coach, judge, organiser), both in Greece and in the USA.
