MICHAEL CHATZIPANAGIOTIS
Michael Chatzipanagiotis is Assistant Professor in Private Law at the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus (UCY). He lectures on Torts, Insurance Law, Consumer Protection, Banking Law, European Private Law and Air Law. His main research interests are Legal aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Torts, Insurance Law, Consumer protection, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Air and Space Law, Banking Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). He has also participated in various research and consulting projects of the European Commission on digitalisation of justice, air law, space law and consumer protection.
Before joining the University of Cyprus as a Lecturer, he served as a legal advisor to the Cyprus Consumer Protection Office, a Special Scientist at the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus and a Scientific Collaborator at the Law School of the European University of Cyprus. He has also worked as a lawyer in Athens, Greece, and as a legal advisor in Cologne, Germany, handling cases mainly on issues of consumer protection, air law, insurance law, IPR, banking law, as well as on commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
He completed his basic legal studies (LL.B) in 2003 at the Department of Law of the University of Athens, Greece, and his postgraduate studies (LL.M) in 2006 at the Department of Law of the University of Cologne, Germany, from which he also obtained his PhD in 2011 with summa cum laude.
- Torts
- Consumer protection
- Legal aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Air and space law
- Banking Law
- Insurance Law
- Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Journal articles
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'The case law of the CJEU on Art. 17 of the 1999 Montreal Convention: An evaluation from a comparative perspective', (2024) 89.2 Journal of Air Law and Commerce, forthcoming
The case law of the Court of Justice of the EU on the 1999 Montreal Convention, (2023) Indian Review of Air and Space Law, 32-48.
Michael Chatzipanagiotis and George Leloudas, 'Automated vehicles and third party liability: A European perspective', (2020) Illinois Journal of Law, Technology and Policy, 109-199
Michael Chatzipanagiotis and George Kyriakopoulos, 'One-stop shop' space safety regulation: Should we do it and how?, (2019) 6 Journal of Space Safety Engineering, 212-218
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'Disrupted flights and information duties of air carriers: The interplay between Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 on air passengers rights and the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive' (2018) 43 Air and Space Law, 431-458
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'Informed consent: using behavioral science to make it easier to accept… and easier to nullify it at the court?' (2016) 4 New Space Journal, 68-74
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'Criminal issues in international space law' (2016) 8 European Journal of Law Reform, 105-119
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'The use of unfair contractual terms as an act of unfair competition' [in Greek], (2013) 13 Annals of Private Law (Χρονικά Ιδιωτικού Δικαίου), 150-160
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'Product liability in aviation according to national and EU law' [in Greek] (2012) 12 Annals of Private Law (Χρονικά Ιδιωτικού Δικαίου), 228 et seq.
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'The notion of flight under Regulation (EC) No 261/2004' (2012) 37 Air and Space Law, 245-257
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'Establishing direct international flights to and from Northern Cyprus' (2011) 60 Zeitschrift für Luft- und Weltraumrecht, 476-486
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'Liability aspects of Air Traffic Services provision' (2007) 32 Air and Space Law, 326-358
Contributions to edited books
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'Using space objects in orbit as transaction objects: Issues of liability and registration de lege lata and de lege ferenda' in: George D. Kyriakopoulos and Maria Manoli (eds) The Space Treaties at Crossroads - Considerations de lege ferenda (Springer 2019), 79-95
George Leloudas, Michael Chatzipanagiotis and Konstantina Liperi, 'The Legacy of the Dinosaurs: Regulation of Planetary Defence and Near Earth Objects at a Global Level', in: George D. Kyriakopoulos and Maria Manoli (eds) The Space Treaties at Crossroads - Considerations de lege ferenda (Springer 2019), 141-162
Michael Chatzipanagiotis and Konstantina Liperi, 'Regulation of global navigation satellite systems', in: Ram Jakhu and Paul Stephen Dempsey (eds), Routledge Handbook of Space Law (Routledge 2017), 160-179
Papers in conference proceedings
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'Insurance aspects of automated vehicles' in: Slobodan Jovanovic και Pierpaolo Marano (eds), Insurance and Legal-Economic Environment - Wider and Narrower Framework (AIDA Serbia 2022), 159-171, https://doi.org/10.18485/aida.2022.23.ch13
Michael Chatzipanagiotis 'Whose fault is it? Artificial Intelligence and Liability in International Space Law' in: Rafael Moro-Aguilar et al (eds), Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law 2020 (Eleven Publishers International Publishing), 429-442
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'Product Liability Directive and Software Updates of Automated Vehicles' in: G. Giannakopoulos et al. (eds), Proceedings of SETN 2020, 11th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020, published online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2844/
Michael Chatzipanagiotis, 'Looking into the future: The case for an integrated aerospace traffic management' in: Rafael Moro Aguilar et al. (eds), Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law 2015 (Eleven Publishers International Publishing 2016), 447-460
Michael Chatzipanagiotis and Rafael Moro-Aguilar, 'Criminal jurisdiction in international space law: future challenges in view of the ISS IGA', in: Rafael Moro-Aguilar et al. (eds), Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law 2014 (Eleven International Publishing 2015), 323-335
Case notes
CJEU C-774/19 Personal Exchange (jurisdiction over consumer contracts, concept of "consumer"), (2021) 10 Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, 165-168
CJEU joined cases C-776/19 to C-782/19 BNP Paribas Personal Finance (unfair terms in consumer mortgage loan agreements denominated in foreign currency) [in Greek], Cyprus Law Review (Κυπριακή Νομική Επιθεώρηση) 2021, 313-314
CJEU C-70/20 Altenrhein Luftfahrt (notion of "accident" under the 1999 Montreal Convention on liability of air carriers) [in Greek], Annals of Private Law (Χρονικά Ιδιωτικού Δικαίου) 2021, 609 et seq.
CJEU C-371/20 Peek & Cloppenburg (unfair commercial practices, advertorial) [in Greek], Annals of Private Law (Χρονικά Ιδιωτικού Δικαίου) 2021, 703 et seq.
Regional Court of Nicosia Director of Consumer Protection Service v Société Générale (unfair terms in consumer mortgage loan agreements) [in Greek], Cyprus Law Review (Κυπριακή Νομική Επιθεώρηση) 2021, 277-280
CJEU C-766/18P Halloumi (collective EU trademark and indications of geographical origin) [in Greek], Annals of Private Law (Χρονικά Ιδιωτικού Δικαίου) 2020, 449 et seq.CJEU C-567/14 Gentech (patent licensing) [in Greek], Annals of Private Law (Χρονικά Ιδιωτικού Δικαίου) 2016, 693
CJEU C-359/14 and C-475/14 ERGO Insurance (applicable law in redress claims between insurers) [in Greek], Annals of Private Law (Χρονικά Ιδιωτικού Δικαίου) 2016, 290 et seq.
CJEU C-322/14 El Majdoub (choice-of-court clauses in commercial e-contracts) [in Greek], Annals of Private Law (Χρονικά Ιδιωτικού Δικαίου) 2015, 362 et seq.
CJEU C-421/13 Apple flagship stores (trademark for services) [in Greek], Annals of Private Law (Χρονικά Ιδιωτικού Δικαίου) 2015, 492 et seq.