Advisory committee
Professor Symeon Symeonides
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Symeon Symeonides
Professor Symeon Symeonides
Symeon C. Symeonides is the Alex L. Parks Distinguished Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at Willamette University, in Salem, Oregon, USA. His courses and research areas are Private International Law, Transnational Litigation and Arbitration, and Comparative Law. He holds two law degrees summa cum laude from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, an LL.M. and an S.J.D. from Harvard, and three honorary doctorates. He has taught at Thessaloniki, Louisiana State University, Tulane, Loyola (New Orleans), Paris-I (Sorbonne), Paris-V (Descartes), Aix-en-Provence, Louvain-la-Neuve, New York University, and The Hague Academy of International Law.
Professor Alan Uzelac
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Alan Uzelac
Professor Alan Uzelac
Alan Uzelac is a Professor at the Department of Civil Procedure in the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. He conducts research in Civil Procedural Law, Organisation of Justice, Procedural Human Rights, Evidence, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is a legal expert, lecturer and scholar in the fields of civil procedural law, organisation of justice and ADR methods. He actively engages in the fields of legal reforms, legislative drafting and strategic development. He has garnered extensive experience in international commercial arbitration, in the capacity of administrator, arbitrator and the legal counsel.
Professor Masood Ahmed
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Masood Ahmed
Professor Masood Ahmed
Masood Ahmed is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, University of Leicester and convenes the Dispute Resolution Research Cluster. His primary research interests are in civil procedure/civil justice systems and reform, alternative dispute resolution (especially commercial arbitration and mediation), and the interrelationship between ADR and the Civil Procedure Rules. He is also a member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) and has worked alongside members of the judiciary in this capacity to draft procedural rule, reviewing and amending existing rules and implementing key reforms. An example of this is the reform on the rules of open justice (CPR 39) and has been involved in the implementation of the digital reforms to the civil justice system and, the introduction of the Online Civil Money Claims. (OCMC)
Professor Chariklia Apalagaki
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Chariklia Apalagaki
Professor Chariklia Apalagaki
Chariklia Apalagaki is a Professor in the Department of Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Labour Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She coordinates the European Programme ELPIS SOCRATES and has been conducting lectures in civil procedure law to foreign students since 1996, both in English and German. She has also delivered lectures in German in seminars organised by the Hannover University Law Faculty. Her scientific contribution to Civil Procedure Law comprises of 4 monographs, various commentaries, university notes and numerous studies, Greek and foreign, as well as participations and rejoinders in domestic and foreign conventions. Her main field of research, teaching and practice is the Enforcement Law. Since 2018, she has held the role of Secretary General at the Hellenic Bank Association, which has provided her with expert knowledge on litigation and legislation concerning banking and finance law.
Professor Kalliopi Makridou
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Kalliopi Makridou
Professor Kalliopi Makridou
Kalliopi Makridou is a Professor in National and European Civil Procedure and ADR methods at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and vice-rector of the I.H.U. She is the Director of Studies at the Mediation Institute of Thessaloniki, a practicing lawyer at the Thessaloniki Bar Association, vice-president of the Board of the Panhellenic Union of Greece Civil Procedure Scholars, a visiting Professor at the Hellenic National School of Judges, amongst other notable roles. Aside from teaching, she publishes articles regularly and participates in International Congresses.
Elisabetta Silvestri
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Elisabetta Silvestri
Elisabetta Silvestri
Elisabetta Silvestri has served as an Associate Professor of Italian Civil Procedure, Comparative Civil Procedure, and Arbitration, Mediation and Assisted Negotiation at the Department of Law, University of Pavia, Italy until October 1, 2020. At the same Department she is Scientific Director of the postgraduate programs for the training of mediators and ADR professionals accredited by the Italian Ministry of Justice. Elisabetta Silvestri received her legal education at the (then) Faculty of Law, University of Pavia, where she earned her LL.B., and at Cornell Law School, Ithaca, United States, where she obtained her LL.M. She was also visiting Scholar at Yale Law School (New Haven, United States) and London School of Economics. She has been lecturing in many Italian and foreign University on a wide variety of subjects in the field of civil procedure and related matters, such as evidence, judicial organization, collective redress, and ADR. Since 2010 she is co-director of the annual seminar ‘Public and Private Justice’, organized by professors Alan Uzelac and Remco van Rhee and taking place in Dubrovnik, at the Inter-University Centre (IUC). She is a member of the advisory board of the scientific project ‘Building EU Civil Justice (ERC-Consolidator Grant no. 726032) directed by professor Xandra Kramer of Erasmus University (Rotterdam, the Netherlands).
Dr Wendy Kennett
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Wendy Kennett
Dr Wendy Kennett
Wendy Kennett is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University. She conducts research in international and comparative civil procedure, with a particular focus on the enforcement of judgments.
Dr Nicholas Mouttotos
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Dr Nicholas Mouttotos
Nicholas Mouttotos is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen under the Walter Benjamin position (German Research Foundation, DFG). He holds an LL.B. from the University of Cyprus and an LL.M. and PhD from Maastricht University. Nicholas’ main research areas of interest include the unification/harmonization of private law, including civil procedure, the relationship between private international law and substantive (contract) law and the role of comparative law in the elaboration of national and international rules. He has taught and supervised master students in transnational commercial law, comparative law and international commercial arbitration. He has gained practical experience from working at intergovernmental organizations such as the Hague Conference on Private International Law and has also worked for the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Dr Anna Plevri
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Dr Anna Plevri
Thessaloniki (Îœay 2024 -present). Prior to this position, she was an Assistant Professor of Civil
Procedure and ADR at the University of Nicosia (2014 -2024), Director of the Procedural Law
Unit of the same University. She has been recently ranked at the list of WWL & Global
Arbitration Review Future Leaders 2024 (Greece). She has been trained in various law and
ADR trainings abroad, such as in Italy, in Germany, in the United Kingdom, in Switzerland , in
the USA and in Dubai.
She is an licensed Attorney at law, member of the Bar Association of Thessaloniki (Greece).
She is very much involved to the arbitration and mediation practicing both as counsel and an
independent arbitrator, an accredited Mediator on Civil, Commercial, Family, Workplace,
Financial Disputes and ODR, a certified Mediator’s Trainer and an Arbitrator (MCIArb), member
of Arbitration and Mediation Committees of various organizations.
She is a legal scholar, author of 3 monographs (books) in Greek, regarding civil procedure,
(2014), Arbitration in Energy Disputes (European and Greek Framework), (2018) and on the
procedure of the Supreme Court of Greece (cassation), (2023), editor and author of one collective
work (leading kommentar) on mediation in Greece (2021) and of several papers in Greek and in
English. She has delivered several lectures and trainings and has presented several papers in
international conferences in Greek and/or English language in Greece, Cyprus, the UK,
Switzerland and Austria.
She has been a visiting professor in LLM programs of the IHU and she is a visiting professor at
the University of Western Macedonia. She regularly participates as a expert/trainer in trainings for
judges organized by the National School of Judges of Greece, ERA and EJTN. She collaborates
as an expert in many projects and as an advisor on legislative reforms in areas of her expertise.
She has obtained a law degree (LLB), an LLM (Hons) on Civil, Civil Procedural and Labor
Law and a Doctorate (Hons) on Civil Procedural from the Law School of AUTH (Greece). From
the Law Department of the University of Thrace (Greece), she has obtained another LLM on
International Law. Her areas of concentration and research interests are Civil Procedural Law,
Arbitration, Mediation, Law and Technology, Justice Systems and Private International Law. She
works in Greek and English and understands German and Spanish.
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