KONSTANTINOS TSINAS
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Department of Law
FEB 02 - Faculty of Economics and Management, 012
University Campus
Dr. Konstantinos Tsinas holds a Ph.D. Degree in Law (University of Athens), an LL.M. Degree in ‘Criminal Law - Criminal Procedure’ (University of Athens) and an M. Phil. Degree in ‘History & Philosophy of Science & Technology’ (National Technical University of Athens & University of Athens). He studied Law at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BA). He has taught courses in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Jurisprudence and History of Law at the University of Athens (Department of Medicine, Forensic Sciences) as well as at Hellenic Police Officers' School. He has also been an adjunct Lecturer at Hellenic Open University, School of Social Sciences, a scientific collaborator in criminal law at European University of Cyprus, School of Law (expertise: Financial Crime) and a Visiting Lecturer at University of Cyprus, Department of Law, teaching courses in Criminal Law - General Part, Criminal Procedure and Legal Method.
In 2010, Dr. Tsinas has been awarded the “Hippocrates Karavias” Award by the Academy of Athens for his postdoctoral work in Legal Theory (Book: Law & Logic; The Case of Criminal Law Theory, 2011, Athens: Eurasia Ed., in greek).
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure & Evidence
Legal Reasoning
Statutory Interpretation
Logic - Argumentation and the Law
BOOKS
- Prohibited Analogy & Permitted Interpretation of Penal Statutes; A Contribution to the Methodology of Criminal Law. 2010. Athens-Komotini: Ant. Sakkoulas Publ. [in Greek]
- Law & Logic; The Case of Criminal Law Theory. 2011. Athens: Eurasia Ed. (Academy of Athens Award "Hippocrates Karavias") [in Greek]
BOOKS (edited)
- Reasoning of Legal Judgments. Theory and Practice in Greece and Cyprus. (Ed. K.P. Tsinas) 2023. Athens: Nomiki Vivliothiki Publications [in Greek]
PAPERS (selected)
- "Can Legal Syllogism still be considered as a Deductive Argument?" in: Philipps L./Bengez R. (Hrsg.). Beweis und Metrik - Festschrift fur Rolland Wittmann. (2016). Bern: Ed. Weblaw. pp. 139-155 [in English]
- "On the so-called "necessity" of summary investigation of crimes (Art. 244 of the Greek Code of Criminal Procedure); Analysis of a prosecutorial 'Right'", Journal Poiniki Dikaiosyni (= Criminal Justice), Vol. 12/2016, pp. 1120-1124 [in Greek with an abstract in english]
- "Reasoning with Criminal Law and Scientific Explanation; Formal Aspects of the Legal Justification Process" in: Strangas J. a.o. (Hrsg.). Begrundung, Legitimation, Recht. (2014) .Bd. 6A. Athens-Paris-Berlin: Nomos - L' Harmattan. pp. 389-425 [in greek with an abstract in German]
- "Is nullum crimen nulla poena sine lege a legal principle or a legal rule? Analyzing the structure of art. 7.1.of the Greek Constitution under a new theoretical perspective", Revue Hellenique des Droits de L' Homme 53/2012, pp. 81-116 [in Greek with an abstract in English]
- ”Lex Posterior Generalis non Derogat Priori Speciali; Interpretation of Art. 24 par. 2 of the Criminal Tax Law Act 2523/1997 and the General Attorney’s Opinion; Methodological Remarks”, Journal Poinika Chronika (= Chronicles of Criminal Law) ΞΕ/2015, pp. 746-750 (in Greek)
- “Art. 94 § 5 of the Greek Road Traffic Code; An example of unintended decriminalization and its methodological analysis”, Journal Poiniki Dikaiosyni (=Criminal Justice), 12/2011, pp. 1321-1333 (in Greek with an abstract in English)
- “Crime Prevention by Local Councils and Society: A New Kind of decentralized Social-Control", co-written with Prof. K.D. Spinellis, Journal Poinikos Logos Ι/2002, pp. 363-379 (in Greek)
- “Legal Syllogism and Formal Logic; In defence of their interrelation in modern Legal Theory”, Essays in Honor of Prof. Dr. Marianos Karassis, Ed. A. Sakkoulas, 2013, pp. 311-333 (in Greek)
- “The Dominance over Legal Interpretation of Rights and the Right of Dominance over Legal Interpretation. Critical Remarks on the Adoption of the Principle of Proportionality in art. 25 § 1 of the Greek Constitution”, Journal Nomiko Vima, 61(2013), pp. 45-73 (in Greek)
- “On the Interpretation of Art. 291 par. 4 Greek Penal Code, after the Enactment of Statute No 4199/2013; A Comment on 3268/2014 Decision of the First Instance Court of Athens”, Journal Nomiko Vima 62/2014, pp. 2343-2357 (in greek)
- “A Brief Comment on No 20595/2017 Opinion of the Public Prosecutor´s Office at the Court of First Instance, Athens”, Journal Nova Criminalia, Issue 4/2018, p. 5 (in Greek)
- “Systematizing General principles of Criminal Law by Means of Deontic Logic; An Example Based on Art 14 (1) and 46 (1.a) of the Greek Criminal Code”, Paper presented in Jurix 2012 – Fundamental Concepts and the Systematization of Law, University of Amsterdam, 2012 (forthcoming in Springer-Verlag)
BOOK REVIEWS
- C. Dahlman, Al. Stein, G. Tuzet, Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law, Oxford UP 2021, e-journal Art of Crime 5/2023 (in Greek).
- Jan Joerden, “Logik im Recht. Grundlagen und Anwendungsbeispiele” [Logic in the Law. Theory and Practical Examples], Journal Poinika Chronika (= Chronicles of Criminal Law) ΝΕ/2005, pp. 668-672 (in Greek)