Dr. Anastasios Pavlopoulos

Law

Anastasios Pavlopoulos is a Teaching and Research Faculty Member in Public Law at the School of Law of UNIC Athens and a lawyer admitted to practise before the Supreme Court of Greece. His work combines scholarship on constitutional institutions and fundamental rights with litigation and advisory practice addressing contemporary public law issues.

He holds a PhD in Public Law from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He graduated as valedictorian from the School of Law of Democritus University of Thrace and earned a master’s degree in Constitutional Law with distinction. He received an Onassis Foundation doctoral scholarship and Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) scholarships for undergraduate studies and postdoctoral research on the use of comparative methods in constitutional jurisprudence.

He has taught at the School of Law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Neapolis University Pafos, the Hellenic Open University and the Open University of Cyprus. He has also taught on the joint master’s programme in Law of the Economy and Business offered by the Hellenic Open University and the University of Nicosia, where he supervises dissertations. His teaching encompasses constitutional and administrative law, administrative litigation, public economic law, European constitutional law, media law, environmental law, urban and spatial planning law, civil service law and education law. At UNIC Athens, he teaches Constitutional Law, Fundamental Rights and selected public law courses, emphasising legal reasoning and the use of case law in solving practical problems. He has coordinated student research groups and supported moot court competitions and legal debating activities.

His research focuses on constitutional institutions, judicial review of public power and the protection of rights, particularly freedom of expression, the operation of media and digital platforms, and the relationship between democratic representation and public discourse. He also studies the constitutional dimensions of environmental protection and climate change, drawing on comparative law and Greek and European case law.

He is the author of a monograph on the constitutional protection of work during economic crises (2021) and the textbook Mass Media Law (2026). His publications include articles in Greek and international scholarly journals, contributions to edited volumes and legal commentaries, and case notes. He publishes in Greek and English on issues relevant to scholars and practitioners.

Alongside his academic work, he has practised law since 2011 and collaborates with major law firms on targeted projects and complex public law cases. His litigation experience before the Council of State and the administrative courts covers environmental and energy permitting, spatial planning, urban development and civil service disputes, as well as fundamental rights, economic law and development law. This experience informs his research and teaching through concrete questions of legal application.

His recent international activities include presenting a paper and chairing a panel at the International Society of Public Law conference in Dublin, and presenting at ClimateXLaw in Ljubljana. He has lectured at judicial training seminars at the Greek National School of Judiciary on topics including tax measures as State aid and judicial review of environmental permits. He regularly contributes to national newspapers and established scholarly websites.