NICHOLAS PAPASPYROU

Law School

Public Law

Contact Details

Akadimias 47, 2nd floor, Room 6, 10672, Athens | Email: npapaspyrou@law.uoa.gr

Akadimias 45 (Secretariat for Public Law)

PROFILE

Nicholas Papaspyrou is Associate Professor of Public Law with emphasis in constitutional law. As of May 2025 he is the director of the Constitutional Law Lab of the Law School.

He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Athens (1995) and his graduate studies at the University of Oxford, Balliol College (MIur, 1996) and Harvard Law School (LLM 1997, SJD 2000) where he also was a graduate fellow at the Harvard Program for Ethics and a teaching (graduate) fellow at the Law School. He has served as the Secretary Special of the Hellenic Parliament (2009-2015) and as member of various law-drafting committees. His main areas of interest are constitutional theory, theory of public law, regulation and jurisprudence.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

a. Books of his include:

Constitutional Liberty and Public Aims: In pursuit of a Legitimate Relation   (Sakkoulas, 2019 – in Greek)

Constitutional Argument and Institutional Structure in the US   (Hart Publishing, 2018)

The Pathways of European Constitutionalism: Trajectories and Junctures of the English, German and French Constitutional Traditions before the Great War  (Alexandria, 2016 – in Greek)

 b. His articles include:

Conforming Interpretation and Preliminary Ruling: Methodological and Procedural Issues of the European Constitutional Space, Journal of Administrative Law (2025 - in Greek)

 The proper space of proportionality,  Human Rights in times of Illiberal Democracies. Liber Amicorum in Memoriam of Stavros Tsakyrakis (2020)

On the Nature of Jurisprudence, Rechtstheorie (1999)

Immobilization of Securities, The Journal of International Banking Law (1996)

ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES

Nicholas Papaspyrou is also academic associate at the Scientific Council of the Hellenic Parliament. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Union of Greek Constitutional Scholars and member in various academic boards. He comments regularly on constitutional matters in a leading Greek daily newspaper and provides expert analysis on regular basis in news and broadcasting.