Dr. Panos Merkouris, Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Groningen and Fellow of the Athens Public International Law Center – Athens PIL of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council – ERC Starting Grant for a project entitled: The Rules of Interpretation of Customary International Law (TRICI-Law). The project will run for 5 years and has a budget of €1.5 million, allowing the Principal Investigator to form a team of doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers to work on the subject.

The ERC Starting Grant is awarded to talented early scientists (2-7 years after completion of their PhD), who have already produced excellent work and show potential to be a research leader. It is awarded after a highly competitive process, comprising both a written proposal and an interview (see here). This is the first time that a Greek international law scholar has received such a grant.

Athens PIL is particularly pleased for the excellent news regarding our Fellow and congratulates Dr. Merkouris on his success.

For more information on the idea behind the project see here, here and a podcast here.