We are delighted to announce that Professor Dimitrios Giannoupoulos has joined City Law School as new Head of Department, Academic Programmes.
Our associate tenant, Professor Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos, has joined City Law School as the new Head of Department, Academic Programmes from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he previously held the Inaugural Chair in Law.
As the Inaugural Professor of Law at Goldsmiths, Professor Giannoulopoulos designed the LLB and LLM degrees in the Department of Law embedding equality, human rights and social justice as the central values and pedagogic philosophies that define the character of the Law programme.
In October 2020, he was elected an Academic Bencher at the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Visiting Professor at the Panteion School of Social and Political Sciences in Athens.
Professor Giannoulopoulos has internationally leading expertise in how human rights norms are applied in national criminal justice systems across different legal cultures, particularly in the common law and civil law.
He has published widely on improperly obtained evidence, suspects’ rights, evidence obtained in violation of the right to privacy, confessions, the right to a fair trial, the rule of law, politics and human rights, and the application of ECHR jurisprudence in domestic systems. He has taught criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal evidence, ECHR jurisprudence and comparative law for nearly twenty years.
In recent years, Professor Giannoulopoulos has developed a strong interest in the impact of Euroscepticism, populism and Brexit on human rights, drawing on his cross-cultural research and dynamic public engagement work, and his ability for cross-cultural legal analysis. He was the founder and director of the academic thinktank, ‘Britain in Europe’, which contributed to public debate on EU membership, and provided analysis of the impact of Brexit (between 2016 and 2020), particularly on the rights of EU citizens in the UK.
He also directed (2017-2020) the ‘Knowing Our Rights’ research project (funded by the Open Society Foundations), which sought to raise awareness about the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights in the UK. His work in this area has been featured in various publications.
