PARASKEVI PAPARSENIOU (DIRECTOR)

Athens Law School

Professor of Civil Law

Contact Details

47 Akadimias str. (1st floor, Office No.3), 106 72| Emails: evipars@law.uoa.gr & evi@paparseniou.gr

OFFICE HOURS OF IELS DIRECTOR PROF. PAPARSENIOU DURING THE SPRING SEMESTER ACAD.YEAR 2025-2026

During the Spring Semester (acad. year 2025-2026) Professor Paparseniou's office hours are:

Thursday 16.00-17.00pm via the following link:

https://uoa.webex.com/uoa/j.php?MTID=ma265869efe1e0eea4f31094e33628d76
Thursday, March 19, 2026 4:00 PM | 1 hour | (UTC+02:00) Athens, Bucharest
Occurs every Thursday effective 3/19/2026 until 6/4/2026 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, (UTC+02:00) Athens, Bucharest
Meeting number: 2795 860 5766
Password: eJBUEmqi555

PROFILE

Paraskevi Paparseniou is a Professor of Civil Law at the University of Athens, Faculty of Law and has been an Attorney at Law since 1990. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Athens, (1988) and her postgraduate studies at the University of Hannover, Faculty of Law (1990). She obtained her PhD at the University of Athens (1994) submitting her PhD thesis on «Financial Leasing – A critical analysis in the light of liability for defects».

Her main research areas apart from Civil Law include European Private Law, Consumer Protection Law and Copyright Law. She was a member of a Study Group financed by the European Commission and supported by the Faculty of Law of the University of Bielefeld which was involved in the «Annotated Compendium including a comparative analysis of the Community Consumer Acquis» (2005-2006). She was a member of the Board of Trustees of ERA Academy of European Law in Trier, Germany (2012-2015). She frequently visits Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich) as well as the Law Faculty of the University of Munich (LMU) to pursue research work.

Paraskevi Paparseniou teaches General Principles of Civil Law, Contract Law, Inheritance Law and Advanced Lessons of Civil Law in the undergraduate course of studies and European Private Law as well as Consumer Protection Law in the postgraduate course of studies. She is the author of five principal monographs mainly concerning areas of European Contract Law and Copyright Law and of numerous articles published in law journals and collective works in Greek, German and English.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Books

Monetary Obligations especially in foreign currency, (in Greek, P. N. Sakkoulas, 2020)
Right of communication to the public of works, (in Greek, P.N. Sakkoulas, 2015)
Griechisches Verbrauchervertragsrecht – Eine Untersuchung vor dem Hintergrund des Gemeinschaftsprivatrechts, (in German, Sellier European Law Publishers, 2008)
Directives and the rights of individuals – An example: The time-sharing contract, (in Greek, Ant. N. Sakkoulas, 2002)
Financial Leasing, A critical analysis in the light of liability for defects, (in Greek, P.N. Sakkoulas, 1994)

2. Articles and Contributions in Collective Works

The impact of the Digital Services Act on consumer law – Section I: Scope, Applications of Civil Law and Civil Procedure 2025, pp. 921 – 927 = in: The digital transformation and its impact on Commercial Law (2026), pp. 411 - 423
The announcement of a price reduction as an unfair commercial practice and the appropriate penalties applicable to non-serious infringements, Applications of Civil Law and Civil Procedure 2024, pp. 209 – 222 (in Greek)
Price-indexation clauses in contracts of electronic communication services, Chronicles of Private Law 2023, pp. 146 – 157 (in Greek)
Peremptions for the action of recognition of paternity and legal presumptions of paternity under the light of jurisdiction of ECHR and article 33 of the Greek Civil Code (consultation) (in collaboration with Professor Ioannis K. Karakostas), Applications of Civil Law and Civil Procedure 2021, pp. 665 – 683 (in Greek)
Product liability, Some thoughts about the decision of Areopag 1359/2018, Chronicles of Private Law2019, pp.312-316 (in Greek)
Der Schutz des Fremdwährungsdarlehensnehmers nach der Rechtsprechung des EuGH, WM 2018, pp.1730-1738 (in German)
The need for transparency in the relationship between the collective management organisations and the users according to Directive 2014/26/EU, Media and Communication Law 2017, pp.17-27 (in Greek)
Die öffentliche Wiedergabe des Werkes nach der Rechtsprechung des EuGH, GRUR Int 2016, pp.225-232 (in German)
Unfair Contract Terms – A theoretical and jurisprudential approach in the Honorary Volume to Michalis Stathopoulos, Volume II, 2010, pp.2097-2122 (in Greek)
Der Verbrauchsgüterkauf unter bevorstehender Reform: Streitfragen im Hinblick auf den Richtlinienvorschlag über die Rechte der Verbraucher, GPR 2009, pp.275-283 (in German)
Das Transparenzgebot bei nicht im Einzelnen ausgehandelten Vertragsbedingungen griechischer Verbraucherverträge, in Riesenhuber Karl/Karakostas Ioannis (Hrsg), Inhaltskontrolle im nationalen und Europäischen Privatrecht, Schriften zum Europäischen und Internationalen Privat-, Bank- und Wirtschaftsrecht, Band 33, De Gruyter Recht, Berlin 2009, pp.155-167 (in German)
The Legal Rights of the Consumer in Cases of Lack of Conformity of Goods with the Sale Contract and His/Her Contractual Rights According to Guarantee Statements in: The Yearbook of Consumer Law 2008, Edited by Christian Twigg-Flesner, University of Hull, Deborah Parry, Independent Consultant on Consumer Law, Hull, Geraint Howells, University of Lancaster, Annette Nordhausen, University of Manchester, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007, pp. 257-270 (in English).

ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES

She has stood member of many legislative committees, and recently as part of the legislative committee for the new law of sale of goods and the supply of digital content and digital services, and she is a member of the Central Codification Committee. She is the President of the legislative committee for the introduction of the Directives (EU) 2024/1499 and 2024/1500 into Greek law. From 2020 she is a member of the Legal Committee of the Bank of Greece. She is also a member of the Civil Law Association, the Hellenic Association of Procedural Law and the Copyright Protection Association-Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI) Groupe Hellénique.