Achilles Skordas

Prof. Dr., Senior Research Fellow

skordas@mpil.de

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

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

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang:

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)

Aktuelle Publikationen

• Temporary Protection and European Racism. In: EU responses to the large-scale refugee displacement from Ukraine, Meltem Ineli Ciger Sergio Carrera (Hrsg.). European University Institute. EUI, Florence 2023, 419-431. International Judicial Authority, Social Systems and Geoeconomics: The ICJ Whaling in the Antarctic Case (2014)
  
• Authoritarian Global Governance? The Russian-Chinese Joint Statementof March 2021. In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 81, 293-302 (2021). https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.17104/0...
  
• Russia’s Eurasian Großraum and its Consequences. Verfassungsblog, 31. März 2022.
  
• Temporary Protection Directive 2001/55/EC. In: EU Immigration and Asylum Law - Article-by-Article Commentary, Thym/Hailbronner (Hrsg.). Beck/Hart/Nomos, 3rd edition, München 2022, 1177-1228.
  
• The Twenty-Day Greek-Turkish Border Crisis and Beyond: Geopolitics of Migration and Asylum Law (Parts I and II). EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy Blog, 05. Mai 2020. eumigrationlawblog.eu/the-twenty-day-greek-turkish-border-crisis-and-beyond-geopolitics-of-migration-and-asylum-law-part-i/
  

[mehr]

The Twenty-Day Greek-Turkish Border Crisis and Beyond: Geopolitics of Migration and Asylum Law (Parts I and Part II). EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy Blog, 08. Mai 2020. eumigrationlawblog.eu/the-twenty-day-greek-turkish-border-crisis-and-beyond-geopolitics-of-migration-and-asylum-law-part-ii/


A Very German Cultural War: Migrants and the Law. In: ZaöRV 79, 923 -934 (2019).


A Westphalia for the Islamic World? In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 79, 195 -204 (2019).


The Rise of the Neo-Hobbesian Age: Thirty Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. In: ZaöRV 79, 469-479 (2019).


Intervention by Invitation and its Function: Governance in a Plural Society. In: ZaöRV 79, 685-689 (2019).


Temporary Protection. In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) October (2019) (zusammen mit Meltem Ineli-Ciger).


Who is Afraid of the International Court of Justice? International Law and Management of Refugee Flows (Ποιός φοβάται τοΔιεθνές Δικαστήριο? Διεθνές δίκαιο και διαχείριση των προσφυγικών ροών). In: Dilemmas and Context of the Refugee Problem, K. Papageorgiou/P. Sourlas (Hrsg.). Foundation of the Greek Parliament, in Greek, Athens 2019, 187-213.


The European Union as post-national realist power. In: The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy – Research Handbook, S. Blockmans/P. Koutrakos (Hrsg.). Elgar, Cheltenham 2018, 394-444.

Blogposts

• The Missing link in Migration Governance: an Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice. EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy Blog, 12. Juli 2018. http://eumigrationlawblog.eu/the-missing...
  
• A ‘blind spot’ in the migration debate? International responsibility of the EU and its Member States for cooperating with the Libyan coastguard and militias. EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy Blog, 30. Januar 2018. http://eumigrationlawblog.eu/a-blind-spo...
  

Weitere Publikationen

•  International Judicial Authority, Social Systems and Geoeconomics: The ICJ Whaling in the Antarctic Case (2014),   in: Economic Constitutionalism in a Turbulent World, Elgar, (A. Skordas/G. Halmai/L. Mardikian eds., 2023)
• The ICJ jurisprudence and the preservation of peace in the 21^st century, in: Research Handbook on the ICJ, Elgar, (A. Skordas/L. Mardikian eds., forthcoming 2023)

• Ποιός φοβάται το Διεθνές Δικαστήριο? Διεθνές δίκαιο και διαχείριση των προσφυγικών ροών (Who is Afraid of the International Court of Justice? International Law and Management of Refugee Flows), in: Διλήμματα και συμφραζόμενα του προσφυγικού ζητήματος (Dilemmas and Context of the Refugee Problem), K. Papageorgiou/P. Sourlas (Hrsg.). Foundation of the Greek Parliament, in Greek, Athens 2019, 187-213 (in Greek)

• The European Union as post national realist power, in: Steven Blockmans and Panos Koutrakos (eds.), Research Handbook on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, pp. 394-444, Elgar, Cheltenham, 2018.
• Peace, Proposals for the Preservation of, in: The Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force – The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Thematic Volume 2, pp. 927-946 (F. Lachenmann/R. Wolfrum eds), OUP, 2017
• ‘Treaty Interpretation and Global Governance: the Role of Domestic Courts’, in: HP Aust and G Nolte (eds.), The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts. Unity, Diversity, Convergence, pp. 290-316, OUP, 2016 
• ‘Council Directive 2001/55 of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons’, in K. Hailbronner/D. Thym (eds.), EU Immigration and Asylum Law - Commentary, 2^nd edition, pp. 1054-1107, C.H. Beck/Hart/Nomos, 2016
• The Law and Practice of Piracy at Sea – European and International Perspectives, 414 pp. (Koutrakos/Skordas eds, Hart, 2014)
• Polycontextural Law: The Constitutional Law of Civil Society, translation of essays of Gunther Teubner in Greek by Vaios Karavas, 261 pp (Karavas/Skordas/Christodoulidis eds, P. Sakkoulas Publ., Athens, 2005)

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