Konstantinos Margaritis
Associate
Qualifications: Degree in Law (Democritus University of Thrace); LLM (Tilburg University); PhD candidate (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Occupation: PhD researcher in the field of European Public Law on the topic of fundamental rights protection in EU after the Treaty of Lisbon. Konstantinos is also a qualified Attorney, specializing in Administrative and European law with particular interest in the protection of fundamental rights against State abuse.
Interests: European Law, (Comparative) Constitutional Law, Fundamental Rights (particularly freedom of religion), EU External Relations, Constitutional History
Publications:
Books/Monographs
- The Freedom of Religion and its Limits in Greece and the Netherlands: A Comparative Approach, Munchen: Grin Verlag, 2009.
Journal articles (peer-reviewed)
- “Fundamental Rights in the EEC Treaty and within Community Freedoms”, CES Working Papers, Vol. X, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 51-65.
- “The Framework for Fundamental Rights Protection in Europe under the Prospect of EU Accession to ECHR”, Journal of Politics and Law, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2013, pp. 64-79.
- “Historical Development of Constitutional Limitations of the Freedom of Expression in Greece”, Journal of Yasar University, Vol. 8, No. 29, 2013, pp. 4917-4932.
- “An Outline of the Europe - South Africa Relations During and Post the Apartheid Era”, CES Working Papers, Vol. IV, Issue 4, 2012, pp. 758-771.
- “Greek Sports Law: Professional Sport - Part 2”, LawΙnSport, 11 May 2012.
- “Greek Sports Law: Sport and the State - Part 1”, LawΙnSporτ, 1 April 2012.
Case notes
- “ECHR, Application No 19010/07, Case X and others vs. Austria, Judgement of 19.02.2013 (Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sexual preferences)”, Revue Hellénique de Droit Européen, Vol. 33, 1/2013, pp. 117-119 (in Greek).
Working papers
- “Institutional parameters regarding responsibility of the Union after accession to ECHR”, KEDIA Working Paper 07/2012 (in Greek).
- (with Björn Þór Rögnvaldsson) “European Chemicals Agency and Good Governance”, Human Rights and Human Welfare working paper no. 69.
- “European Union accession to the European Convention on Human Rights: an institutional “marriage””, Human Rights and Human Welfare working paper no. 65.
Book reviews
- “Crisis of Sovereignty and Democracy”, Modern Diplomacy, Issue 15, 2013, pp. 14-16 (in Greek).
- “Xenophon Contiades (ed), Engineering Constitutional Change: A Comparative Perspective on Europe, Canada and the USA”, Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2013.
- “DAMIAN CHALMERS, GARETH DAVIES, GIORGIO MONTI, European Union Law: text and materials, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2010, 1.150 p.”, Revue Hellénique de Droit Européen, Vol. 31, 2/2011, p. 265 (in Greek).
Analyses/Opinion pieces
- “The crisis and the European Stability Mechanism”, Modern Diplomacy, Issue 13, 2013, pp. 25-26 (in Greek).
- “Freedom of Expression in the Greek Constitution and the Article 14”, The Washington Review of Turkish & Eurasian Affairs, September 2012.
- “The Freedom of Expression in the Constitution of the Netherlands: An Overview”, Journal of Turkish Weekly, 31 August 2012.
- (with Renée Engel, Björn Þór Rögnvaldsson and Boris Yland) “The Right to Vote and the Overseas Countries in EU: The Case of Eman and Sevinger”, The NewJurist, 18 July 2012.
- “The stabilisation of Greek nationalism”, GPSG Pamphlet: First thoughts on the June 2012 election in Greece, June 2012, no. 16.
- “Greek Elections in May 2012: Some Highlights”, Journal of Turkish Weekly, 25 May 2012.
- “Democracy as an aim for the European Union”, RIEAS - Greek Studies (GR), 29 January 2012 (in Greek).
- “Can the Constitution of Greece be amended via a referendum? Some thoughts”, GPSG Article #033, November 2011.
- “The Constitutional Development of Religion in Greece”, The NewJurist, 19 August 2011. First published in Edition: June 2010.
- (with Katerina M. Dokianaki) “The Constitutional Principle of Tax Equality in Greece”, The NewJurist, 19 August 2011. First published in Edition: November 2010.
- “The Lisbon Treaty and the New Framework for EU Foreign Affairs”, Jurist - Dateline, 24 July 2011.
- “Searching for the forest and losing the tree: Debate about euthanasia in Greece”, Amsterdam Law Forum, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2011, pp. 139-145.
- “The European Position towards South Africa during the Apartheid period”, The NewJurist, 1 July 2010.
Presentations/Guest lectures
- “Doing Business in Greece: Internal Problems and Solutions for Investment”, guest lecture at the Seminar titled “Bridge to the Future”, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, International Business and Management Studies, Eindhoven, 25 March 2013.
- “Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights”, paper presented at the Research Meeting of Department of Transnational Legal Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, Amsterdam, 8 April 2011.