The Athens Public International Law Center (Athens PIL) is deligthed to announce its new Discussion Group series featuring leading international law scholars and practitioners from across the globe. This series will be held at the premises of the Athens PIL Center in a hybrid format. Professor Dire Tladi will deliver our inaugural discussion…

We are very pleased to announce the launching of the AthensPIL Discussion Group. Join us on Wednesdays at 18.00-19.30pm (GMT+2), at AthensPIL, Academias 47, 3^rd floor. Our discussion group will take place in hybrid format and will also be streamed via zoom. 

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Professor Maria Gavouneli and members of the research team of the Athens PIL project "Borderless Challenges" were the convenors of a workshop (round table) on 2.12.2021 discussing the topic  "Controlling immigration beyond the external borders of the EU" with prominent experts of international law and migration. We would like to thank the…

The ERC research project “DISSECT: Evidence in International Human Rights Adjudication” (ERC-AdG-2018-834044) is seeking to fill one full-time two-year research position at post-doctoral level. 

The post-holder’s main task will be to research the evidentiary regime of two (or more) UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies, including the Human Rights…

The National & Kapodistrian University of Athens has joined a select group of leading law faculties around the world invited by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to participate in the Judicial Fellowship Programme. The Judicial Fellowship Programme was established to enable recent law graduates to gain experience working with the…

We are very excited to announce that our very own, Prof. Linos-Alexander Sicilianos, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Athens, faculty member of the AthensPIL and f. President at the ECtHR, has received the "Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur", in a special ceremony held on 15 November 2021.

The National Order of the Legion…

We are thrilled to announce that one of our very own, Professor Linos-Alexander Sicilianos, f. President of the European Court of Human Rights, Dean of the Law School of the University of Athens and candidate for judge at the International Court of Justice, has been awarded the title of Doctor honoris causa of the l’ Université Paris II…

A 3-years Postdoctoral Research Project funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation has just commenced at the Athens Public International Law Center

Following on the remarkable tradition of the Athens Public International Law Center (Athens PIL), Athens Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in…

Outsourcing and cooperation with third countries: Deconstructing the formal and the informal in migration and asylum policies 

The School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is looking for its new NILOS MCC team!

The NILOS  Moot Court Competition welcomes universities from all over the world for the first moot court simulating proceedings under Part XV of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. 

The moot court…