The NSW Chapter of the Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association and the Hellenic Club of Sydney is hosting an evening with Professor Nicos C. Alivizatos, Professor of Law at the University of Athens, who will speak on “Authoritarian Democracy – Populism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Europe. Recent Developments from a Greek Perspective”.
Professor Alivizatos has practiced law since 1978 and is pleading regularly before the Greek Council of State, the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.
After studying law in Athens (LL.B. 1972), Professor Alivizatos obtained his PhD from the University of Paris 2 in 1977; the late doyen Georges Vedel was his directeur de thèse, which was published in Paris in 1979 (: Les institutions politiques de la Grèce à travers les crises, Paris, L.G.D.J., Bibliothèque constitutionnelle, tome 60).
He has been teaching constitutional and public law since 1980 and was a visiting scholar at Stanford (1988-89), Princeton (1997) and Oxford Universities (2005).
His books include The Constitutional Status of the Armed Forces, vols 1 &2, (in Greek, Athens, Ant. Sakkoulas, 1987 & 1992 respectively), Beyond Article 16 (in Greek, Athens, Metaichmio, 2007), The Constitution and its Enemies, 1800-2010 (in Greek, Athens, Polis, 2011) and What Kind of Democracy After the Crisis (in Greek, Athens, Polis, 2013). Pragmatists, Demagogues and Dreamers. Politicians, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Power (in Greek, Athens, Polis, 2015).
NSW Patron of HAL, The Honourable Justice Melissa Perry, Federal Court of Australia, will also speak on the evening.
It will be held at the Beta Gallery, Level 1, 238 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, on 27 June 2017 at 6.30pm.
*RSVP by 13 June 2017 to Sophie Balayannis by email: [email protected] or on 0418 352 637.
