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Achilles Skordas

Prof. Dr., Senior Research Affiliate

skordas.affiliate@mpil.de

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

Geopolitics; Public International Law; EU Common Foreign and Security Policy; Migration Law and Policy

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang:

Senior Research Fellow at the MPIL 2018 - 2023

Positions held:

Professor of International Law, University of Bristol, UK (2008-2020)

Professor of International Law (Marie Curie), University of Copenhagen (2016-2018)

Reader in Law, University of Bristol, UK (2006-2008)

Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Athens, Greece (1997-2006)

Lecturer, School of Law, University of Athens, Greece (1991-1997)

Advisor to the Greek Parliament

Advisor to the Greek Parliament on international legal affairs (1989-2006)

Advisor to the Greek Parliamentary delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) (1996-1997); participation in the PABSEC meetings in Tbilisi, Rize (Turkey), Moscow, Bucharest, and Athens

Links with government and other Greek institutions:

External evaluator for the structural reform of the Law School, University of Athens (2013)

Member, Advisory Board, Karamanlis Institute for Democracy (2001-2005)

Degrees earned:

Dr. jur., magna cum laude, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany (1985) (DAAD scholarship)

J.D., summa cum laude, School of Law, University of Athens

Other academic and research activities

Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC CT-BW), Member of the Interstate Steering Committee; Coordinator of Working Group 3, Human Rights and International Relations (since 2019)

Marie Curie Professorial Fellowship, University of Copenhagen Law School – iCourts (2016-2018)

Leibniz Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for International Law, Heidelberg (2015)

Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science Fellowship (2014)

University of Copenhagen Law School, iCourts, Visiting Fellow (2014)

Harvard Law School, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Global Law and Policy (2009-2010)

Bristol University Fellowship (2009-2010)

Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Fellow for Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy (CLPE) (2008)

University Paris XII, School of Law, Visiting Professor (one month annually, 1997-2001)

Odysseus Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe (founding member, since 1999)

Welsh Center for International Affairs (WCIA), Legal Affairs Committee (LAC), Cardiff, member (2006-2016)