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ARISTOTELES CONSTANTINIDES

CONSTANTINIDES ARISTOTELES
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Law
FEB 02 - Faculty of Economics and Management, 006
University Campus
Aristoteles Constantinides is Associate Professor of International Law and Human Rights. He is one of the founding members of the Law Department of the University of Cyprus, which was established in 2006, and served as Chairman of the Department (2017-2020). He obtained a law degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1994), where he also completed his graduate, doctoral (2003) and post-doctoral studies (2006). Prior to his appointment at the University of Cyprus, he was a lawyer in Greece and part-time researcher at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations of Thessaloniki (1996-2006), adjunct lecturer at the College of Administrative Officers of the Hellenic Air Forces (2005-2006, teaching ‘The Legal Regime of the Aegean Sea’), and worked for various EU-funded research projects at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1998-2006). He is reporting on Cyprus for the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts database. He was a member of the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee, the Committee for the reform of the Law on Prisons, the Committee for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers of the Cyprus Red Cross Society and the International Law Association Committees on Non-State Actors and on Recognition/Non-Recognition in International Law. He was also a visiting scholar at the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice, the Center for International Law of the University of Amsterdam, and Mc Gill University, and a visiting Professor at the University of Grenoble-Alpes, Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, the Ecole des Relations Internationales (ILERI) of Paris, and the University of Vienna. Since 2014 he is a member of the team of lawyers advising the Greek Cypriot negotiator and the President of the Republic of Cyprus in the negotiations for the settlement of the Cyprus problem, and in 2017 he participated in the UN conference on Cyprus in Switzerland (Geneva, Mont Pelerin, Crans Montana meetings). In 2017 he was awarded the quality teaching award of the University of Cyprus.
He teaches Public International Law I, Public International Law II, International Human Rights Law, Law of the United Nations, International Development Law, and is the faculty advisor of the University of Cyprus Moot Court and Model United Nations (MUN) teams.
Dr Constantinides accepts supervision of doctoral students provided they have obtained an LLM in Public International Law or in (International) Human Rights Law or, in case of general LLM, they have written at least one research paper on public international law or (international) human rights law or have relevant work experience.
Law of the United Nations, with emphasis on the Security Council
The Cyprus problem, with emphasis on the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus
International law in domestic courts, especially in the legal order of Cyprus
International (universal and regional) protection of human rights, particularly of vulnerable groups
Non-state actors, particularly armed opposition groups
International development cooperation
Books
 
Legal Limits and Judicial Review of the UN Security Council (Athens – Thessaloniki, Sakkoulas Publications, 2004) (in Greek) (280 pages)
 
Criton Tornaritis: Selected Opinions on Constitutional Law (Athens: Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2019) (co-editor with Constantinos Kombos) (184 pages)
 
The Cyprus Problem in Evolution – International Dimension, Issues of Governance, Human Rights (Athens – Thessaloniki, Sakkoulas Publications, 2011) (co-editor with Anastasia Samara-Krispi, in Greek) (281 pages)
 
The Diversity of International Law – Essays in Honour of Professor Kalliopi K. Koufa (Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009) (co-editor with Nikos Zaikos, 674 pages)
 
Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes
 
Minorities’, in Manfred Nowak, Christina Binder, Jane Hofbauer and Philip Janig (Eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2022) 487-494

Minorities, Rights of’, in Manfred Nowak, Christina Binder, Jane Hofbauer and Philip Janig (Eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2022) 494-507
 
'Law of Treaties’, in Constantine Antonopoulos and Constantine Magliveras (Eds), The Law of International Society, 4th ed. (Athens, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2022) 407-452 (in Greek)
 
‘Diplomatic Protection’, in Constantine Antonopoulos and Constantine Magliveras (Eds), The Law of International Society, 4th ed. (Athens, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2022) 523-547 (with Vasilis Pergantis, in Greek)
 
'The Legal and Policy Framework of Cyprus for the Fight Against Poverty at the Domestic and International Levels', in Mads Andenas, Jeremy Perelman and Christian Scharling (Eds), The Fight Aganst Poverty and the Right to Development (Berlin: Springer, 2020) 79-100
 
Social Rights of Minorities’, in Christina Binder, Jane Hofbauer, Flavia Piovesan and Amaya Úbeda de Torres (Eds), Research Handbook on International Law and Social Rights (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020) 250-268
  
Territorial Disputes in the Context of Secessionist Conflicts’, in Marcelo Kohen and Mamadou Hebie (Eds), Research Handbook on Territorial Disputes in International Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2018) 343-395 (with Théodore Christakis)
 
'Statehood and Recognition’, in André Nollkaemper, August Reinisch, Ralph Janik and Florentina Simlinger (Eds), International Law in Domestic Courts. A Casebook (Oxford, OUP, 2018) 30-72
 
'Economic and Social Rights’, in André Nollkaemper, August Reinisch, Ralph Janik and Florentina Simlinger (Eds),  International Law in Domestic Courts. A Casebook (Oxford, OUP, 2018) 616-661
 
Jus Cogens’, in André Nollkaemper, August Reinisch, Ralph Janik and Florentina Simlinger (Eds),  International Law in Domestic Courts. A Casebook (Oxford, OUP, 2018) 257-287
 
Terrorism’, in André Nollkaemper, August Reinisch, Ralph Janik and Florentina Simlinger (Eds),  International Law in Domestic Courts. A Casebook (Oxford, OUP, 2018) 456-541
  
Extradition’, in André Nollkaemper and Ilias Plakokefalos (Eds), The Practice of Shared Repsonsibility (Cambridge, CUP, 2017) 128-161
 
The Cyprus Problem in the United Nations Security Council’, 19 Austrian Review of International and European Law (2014) 29-66 (published in 2017)
 
Hans Kelsen on the Eligibility of the Future Republic of Cyprus as a Member of the United Nations’, in Clemens Jabloner, Thomas Olechowski and Klaus Zeleny (Eds),
 Das internationale Wirken Hans Kelsens (Schriftenreihe des Hans Kelsen-Instituts 37) (Vienna, Manz, 2016) 166-188
 
'The Place of International Law in the Cypriot Legal Order’, in Anastasia Samara-Krispi (Ed.), Essays of Law and International Relations in Memory of Professor Elias Krispis (Athens – Thessaloniki, Sakkoulas Publications, 2015) 229-239 (in Greek)
 
'Human Right to Development', in Anja Mihr and Mark Gibney (Eds), The SAGE Handbook of Human Rights (London, SAGE, 2014) 941-958 
 
The Legal Situation of Same-Sex Couples in Greece and Cyprus’, in Daniele Gallo, Luca Paladini and Pietro Pustorino (Eds), Same-Sex Couples Before National, Supranational and International Jurisdictions (Berlin, Springer, 2013) 319-342 (with Spyridon Drosos)
 
Transjudicial Dialogue and Consistency in Human Rights Jurisprudence: A Case Study on Diplomatic Assurances against Torture’, in Ole Kristian Fauchald and Andre Nollkaemper (Eds), The Practice of International and National Courts and the (De-)Fragmentation of International Law (Oxford, Hart, 2012) 267-295
 
‘The Cyprus Problem in the United Nations Security Council’, in Anastasia Samara-Krispi and Aristoteles Constantinides (Eds), The Cyprus Problem in Evolution – International Dimension, Issues of Governance, Human Rights (Athens – Thessaloniki, Sakkoulas Publications, 2011) 17-51 (in Greek)
 
The Corfu Channel Case in Perspective: The Factual and Political Background’, in Karine Bannelier, Theodore Christakis, Sarah Heathcote (Eds), The ICJ and the Development of International Law: The Lasting Impact of the Corfu Channel Case (London, Routledge, 2011) 41-59 
 
 
‘Securitizing’ Development: Advantages and Pitfalls of the Security Council’s Involvement in Development Issues’, in Marius Emberland and Christoffer C. Eriksen (Eds), The New International Law - An Anthology, (Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010) 203-219
 
The Practice of Diplomatic Assurances as Circumvention of the Prohibition on Non-Refoulement’, in Ioannis Stephanides and Constantinos Hadjiconstantinou (Eds), Essays in Honour of Professor Kalliopi K. Koufa, (Athens/Thessaloniki, Sakkoulas Publications, 2010) 225-242 (in Greek)
 
 
‘The Prohibition of Removing Aliens to Countries in Risk of Torture: International Law and Cypriot Legal Order’, 1 Lysias (2008) 7-19 (in Greek)
 
'Delimitation and Combating of Terrorism in International Humanitarian Law', in Kalliopi Koufa and Photini Pazartzis (Eds), International Criminal Justice as a Means of International Law Enforcement (Athens/Thessaloniki, Sakkoulas Publications, 2007) 307-324 (in Greek)
 
‘Official Development Assistance as an Instrument of International Development Cooperation’, in Panayotis Glavinis (Ed.), Official Financing of International Development Cooperation (Thessaloniki, Copy City Press, 2006) 7-92 (in Greek)
 
'An Overview of Legal Restraints on Security Council Chapter VII Action with a Focus on Post-Conflict Iraq', paper presented at the inaugural conference of the European Society of International Law in Florence (2004)