Themistoklis Tzimas

Teaching Experience

  • Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Public Administration of Panteion University, in the subjects of “Public International Law”, “EU Law – European Policies”, for the spring semester of the academic year 2023-2024
  • Adjunct Lecturer for the year 2022-2023, at the Department of Political Science of the Democritus University of Thrace.
  • Adjunct Lecturer for the year 2021-2022, in School of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with teaching subjects, Public International Law and Special Issues of Public International Law.
  • Lecturer at EAP since the winter semester of the academic year 2021-2022, in the subject of “International and European Law”
  • Lecturer of the P.D. 407/1980 at the Department of Political Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in the spring semester of 2021, in the subject of “Eastern Mediterranean Contemporary Diplomacy and Politics” and lecturer in the subject “New Technologies, International Relations and Political Theories.”
  • Member of Centre For The Study Of States, Markets And People (STAMP) του University of East London, https://www.uel.ac.uk/our-research/research-royal-docks-school-business-law-rdsbl/centre-study-states-markets-people-stamp
  • Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from January 2019 until today, in the context of which I have been a lecturer and I teach in the relevant department.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Macedonia from January 2017 to January 2019, Department of Balkan Studies

Books:

  • Legal and Ethical Challenges of Artificial Intelligence from an International Law Perspective, ISBN: 978-3-030-78584-0, Publisher: Springer, Book Series: Issues in Privacy and Data Protection, (August, 2021)
  • Greece and Hellenism in the post-American era, After Ukraine, what? ISBN 978-960-499-412-0, Topos Publications (May 2022)
  • Human Security in the Context of Collective Security (PhD Thesis)
  • The Russian “SMO” in Ukraine from the Perspective of Jus a Bellum- Public and International Law Perspectives, Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK

Other Professional Experience

  • December 2018- present: legal advisor of the NGO ELPIDA-HOPE on refugee and migration law issues.
  • January 2017- June 2021: Legal Advisor on refugee law and child protection issues at the NGO Terre Des Hommes
  • March 2018- June 2018: member of the design team for the assignment of the camp “Pavlos Melas” to the Municipality of Stavroupoli, under the Dean of the School of Economics and Business of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Professor Gr.
  • December 2018- March 2019: consultant to Terre Des Hommes in her research on access to justice issues for minors.
  • June 2016-January 2017: Legal Advisor on refugee law and child protection issues at the NGOs ARSIS- Terre Des Hommes
  • June 2011-June 2012: Legal Advisor of the Regional Development Fund of Central Macedonia
  • September 2005- present: Lawyer – Self-employed, with emphasis on public law, public procurement, refugee and immigration law

Education

  • February 2009-February 2016: PhD in International Law and Political Science, Department of International and European Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with thesis “Human Security in the Context of Collective Security”. Grade: unanimously excellent.
  • October 2008- March 2012: MSc in Public Law and Political Science, specializing in Constitutional Law, in the field of Public Law at the Democritus University of Thrace with grade 9, “excellent”. Thesis topic “The constitutionality of the participation of immigrants in local elections”.
  • September 2005- March 2008: MPhiL/ LLM by Research at the University of Bristol, in International Law and International Terrorism and grade A, “excellent”.
  • September 1998- October 2003: Law studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with grade “Very Good”