Professor Spyridon Flogaitis

By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates

Professor Spyridon Flogaitis

  • Born in Lefkas (Greece), July 22, 1950
  • Professor of Administrative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Athens
  • Director of the European Public Law Organization, Athens, Greece
  • Docteur en Droit
  • Docteur en Histoire
  • Diplômé de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-IVème Section
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, NSPSPA, Bucharest, Romania
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Attorney at Law at the High Court and the Council of State
  • Vice-President, Appeals Board, European Space Agency
  • Former Judge, Supreme Court, Greece
  • Former President, United Nations Administrative Tribunal
  • Former Minister of Interior, Hellenic Republic (August-September 2009)
  • Former Minister of Interior, Hellenic Republic (August-September 2007)
  • Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, Republic of France
  • Cavaliere dell’Ordine di Merito della Repubblica Italiana

Education

  • 1968. High School Diploma from the 5th High School of Athens
  • 1973. Degree in Law, Faculty of Law, Athens University
  • 1973-1974. Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures en droit public, Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
  • 1978. Doctorat d'Etat en Droit, Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). Thesis Director: Professor Jean Rivero. Thesis subject: "La notion de décentralisation en France, en Allemagne et en Italie".
  • 1978. Doctorat en Histoire (Doctorat de 3ème cycle ès Lettres), Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). Thesis Director: Professor Nicolas Svoronos. Thesis subject: "Système vénitien de successions ab intestat et structures familiales dans les îles ioniennes".
  • 1979. Diplôme de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-IVème Section, Histoire et Philologie.

University Career

  • 1980-1982. Assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Athens
  • 1982-1985. Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Athens
  • 1985. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Athens
  • 1992- Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Athens
  • 1993. Member of the Board of the Ionian University, Corfou
  • 1994- Co-founder & Editor of the Critical Review of Legal Theory and Practice (with Prof. Michael Stathopoulos, Athens University).
  • 1994- Founder & Co-editor (with Professors Gl. Sioutis and J. Karakostas) of Environment and Law (in Greek).
  • 1995- Director of the European Public Law Center, Athens.
  • 2003- Founder & Co-editor (with Professor Gl. Sioutis) of Energy and Law (in Greek).
  • 2006- Founder & Editor of Journal of Administrative Law.

Fellowships – Scholarships - Awards

  • 1968-1973. Greek Government Scholarship
  • 1974-1978. French Government Scholarship
  • 1976-1977. Italian Government Scholarship
  • 1981. DAAD Fellowship, Germany
  • 1982-1983. British Council Fellowship
  • 1986 CNRS Fellowship, France
  • 1988. DAAD Fellowship, Germany
  • 1989. Humbolt Fellowship, Germany
  • 1990-1991. Humbolt Fellowship, Germany
  • 1993. Fulbright fellowship
  • 1998. Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge

International Activities

  • 1982-1983. Visiting member of the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Wolfson College
  • 1984-1985. Member of the Scientific Council of the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  • 1985- Member of the Scientific Network of Euroregions, Institute of Federalism, University of Freiburg, Switzerland.
  • 1983-1989. Member of the Steering Committee of the European Group of Public Administration, Brussels
  • 1988. Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
  • 1988. Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Paris I (Panthéon- Sorbonne)
  • 1989- Co-founder & Editor (with Prof. Gérard Timsit, University of Paris I) of European Review of Public Law, London
  • 1990-1991. Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Heidelberg
  • 1990. Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University Bordeaux I
  • 1991- Member of the Steering Committee of the European Group of Public Law
  • 1992- Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Center of Public Law, London
  • 1992- Foreign correspondent of the Scientific Committee of the Rivista Italiana di Diritto Pubblico Europeo, Milano, Italy
  • 1992- Member of the Editorial Committee of the International Review of Administrative Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1993. Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University Bordeaux I
  • 1995-1996. OECD expert for PHARE countries
  • 1996. Visiting Professor, Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  • 1998. Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
  • 2000- Member of the International Advisory Committee, Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research, Queen’s Univeristy of Belfast, UK
  • 2002- Correspondent of the Scientific Committee of the Rassegna di Diritto Pubblico Europeo
  • 2008. Doctor Honoris Causa, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest
  • 2009. Doctor Honoris Causa, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2010. Visiting Professor, University of Paris I, (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  • 2011. Visiting Professor, University of Toulouse

Legal Practice

  • 1974- Attorney at Law, Athens Bar
  • 1979-1980. Legal Advisor at the General Directorate for Decentralization and Regional Development, Ministry of Coordination, Athens
  • 1980-1981. Legal Advisor at the General Directorate for the Environment, Ministry of Coordination, Athens
  • 1981-1982. Assistant to the Legal Advisor of the Prime Minister, Athens
  • 1983-1984. Legal Advisor to the Secretary General of the Ministry of National Economy, Athens
  • 1984-1985. Legal Advisor to the Minister of the Council, Athens
  • 1985- Attorney at Law at the High Court and the Council of State
  • 1985. Director of the Institute of Public Administration, National Center of Public Administration, Athens
  • 1988-2010. Legal Advisor to the Center of Renewable Energy Sources, Athens
  • 1992- ICC Arbitrator
  • 1994-1995. President of the Committee of the Greek Administrative Procedure Act
  • 1995-2007. Director of the European Public Law Center, Athens, Greece
  • 1996-1997. President of the Committee of the Greek Traffic Code Regulations
  • 1999-2004. Member of the Committee of Legal Experts of the Ministry of Education
  • 1999-2001. Alternate President of the High Authority on Radio-Television, Greece
  • 1999. President of the Committee for Evaluation of Transport and Telecommunication Programmes, Greek Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications
  • 2000-2005. President of the Agency for the Distribution of Gas of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 2000-2009. Member, United Nations Administrative Tribunal
  • 2001–2002. Member, Committee for the Restructuring the Finances of the Civil Service, Greece
  • 2002- Member of the Scientific Committee of ASTRID, Rome
  • 2002-2007. Member, Committee for the Codification of the Hellenic Law of Public Works
  • 2002-2004. Member, Committee for the Codification of the Hellenic Environmental Law
  • 2002-2004. President of the Committee for the Competences of Local Government, Greece
  • 2002-2010. Member, Committee for the Recruitment of Director Generals in the Greek public sector
  • 2004-2005. 2nd Vice President, United Nations Administrative Tribunal
  • 2005-2007. Member, Board of Directors, European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia
  • 2005-2007. Member, Committee for the restructuring of the Greek judiciary
  • 2006-2009. President, United Nations Administrative Tribunal
  • 2007- Director of the European Public Law Organization
  • 2007- Member, BoD of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture
  • 2008-2010. Member, Committee for the Recruitment of Director Generals in the Greek local government
  • 2011. Member, Committee for the improvement of the Grievance system, NATO
  • 2011- Member, Board of Directors, Intellectual Property Organisation
  • 2011- Member, Appeals Board, European Space Agency
  • 2011- Judge, Supreme Court, Greece
  • 2013- Vice-President, Appeals Board, European Space Agency

Books

  • 1979. La notion de décentralisation en France, en Allemagne et en Italie, Paris, LGDJ.
  • 1981. Système vénitien de successions ab intestat et structures familiales dans les îles ioniennes, Paris/Genève, Droz.
  • 1981. Fundamental concepts of administrative organization (in Greek), Athens, Sakkoulas editions.
  • 1984. Contemporary aspects of state interventionism (in Greek), Athens, Sakkoulas editions.
  • 1986. Administrative Law et Droit Administratif, Paris, LGDJ
  • 1987. The Greek Administrative System (in Greek), Athens, Sakkoulas editions.
  • 1987. Friedrich von Thiersch, De la Régence en Grèce, edited by S. Flogaitis and H. Scholler, Athens, Sakkoulas editions.
  • 1988. Georg Ludwig von Maurer, Die Wittelsbacher in Griechenland, edited by S. Flogaitis and W. Roustopani--Sourlas, Athens, Sakkoulas editions.
  • 1990. Cases and Materials in Administrative Law (in Greek), Athens, Hellenic University Press.
  • 1992. Public Contracts (in Greek), Athens, Sakkoulas editions.
  • 1998. Public Contracts (in French), Esperia Publications Ltd, London / Bruylant, Brussels.
  • 2003. Administrative Law (in Greek, edited with others), Athens, Sakkoulas , (Second edition 2010)

Associations

  • Hellenic Association of Constitutional Law (Secretary-General)
  • European Group of Public Administration (member of the Steering Committee 1983-1989)
  • European Group of Public Law (member of the Steering Committee, 1991-)
  • Hellenic Association of the Law of the Environment
  • Asociacion Mexicana de Derecho Administrativo (Honorary Member)