Dr. Georgios Tsaousis

Law

right000 Georgios Tsaousis is Assistant Professor of Public Law at the School of Law of the University of Nicosia (UNIC Athens) and a practicing lawyer in Greece, admitted before the Supreme Court and the Council of State. He holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Democritus University of Thrace and postgraduate and doctoral degrees in Law from the University of Burgundy (Université de Bourgogne), France. His doctoral thesis was awarded the distinction très honorable and was subsequently published as a scholarly monograph.

Dr. Tsaousis has extensive experience in legal education and academic teaching. Before joining the University of Nicosia, he taught Public Law at the School of Law of Democritus University of Thrace and at the International Hellenic University. His teaching and research activities have encompassed public and administrative law, administrative procedure, constitutional and fundamental rights law, immigration and asylum law, and European Union law. His research focuses primarily on administrative law and administrative procedure, public governance, fundamental rights, personal data protection, immigration and asylum law, and the coherent application of European Union law. His work is particularly concerned with the relationship between public administration and the protection of individual rights, as well as with the ways in which European legal standards shape national administrative and regulatory systems. These interests are reflected in his academic publications and his engagement with contemporary questions at the intersection of public law, European integration and institutional governance.

A significant strand of his recent research concerns data protection and privacy as fundamental rights within the European Union legal order. His 2025 article, Personal Data Protection: A Preeminent EU Right for the Cypriot Legal System, examines the development of EU data-protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the interaction between European harmonisation and national regulatory particularities, with reference to Cyprus (Cyprus Review, 37(2), 2025). His research has also expanded into the legal challenges arising from digitalisation, emerging technologies and data governance. His recent work on Greek digital and higher-education regulation addresses contemporary regulatory and data-related challenges within an increasingly digital public and educational environment (Discov glob soc 3, 153 (2025).

Another important dimension of his scholarly work concerns public administration, responsible governance and sustainability. His 2026 co-authored article in SAGE Open, Approaching CSR Integration in the Greek Public Administration: Examples of Public Entities, examines the incorporation of corporate social responsibility principles into the Greek public sector and considers their relationship with sustainable development, ESG frameworks, transparency, accountability and responsible governance (Sage Open, 16(1)

Dr. Tsaousis has also published on fundamental rights and education policy and has contributed to academic discussions concerning the harmonisation of European law within national legal orders. His research and conference activity demonstrate a broader interest in the interaction between European legal integration and domestic public-law systems, including the Greek and Cypriot legal orders.

He is the author of teaching manuals on administrative procedure and has published scholarly articles and contributions in Greek and international legal journals and academic volumes. His current research agenda brings together traditional questions of administrative and public law with emerging issues of digital governance, data protection, migration and asylum, sustainable public administration, and the effective implementation of European Union law.

Through his academic teaching, research and legal practice, Dr. Tsaousis is particularly interested in the evolving role of public law in reconciling effective administration, institutional accountability, technological transformation and European legal integration with the protection of fundamental rights and the rule of law.