The Constitution of Globalisation: Georgios Pavlakos (UA)
The research conducted under this project undertakes an investigation of the impact of globalization on the concept of law from the point of view of General Legal Theory and the Philosophy of Law. In addition, extensive use is made of contemporary debates in the Philosophy of Action, Social, Political and Moral Philosophy. Given its interdisciplinary scope, the project focuses on structural as well as substantive aspects of legal orders with an eye to offering an explanatory framework of legal phenomena that lives up to the challenges of the globalised era. Such a framework, it is argued, needs to combine a dynamic understanding of how legal norms and categories evolve in the light of the social, economic and political changes globalization effects, with an account of the specifically normative structure of law as a source of authority, which is legitimate from the point of view of agents who engage in global contexts of action. The two aspects, it is suggested, may be combined through an analysis of the dual character of Law as a system of co-ordination of action: on one hand, the factual aspect that pertains to legal institutional arrangements; on the other, the ideal aspect that refers to the claim law raises to be a legitimate source of normative authority. Research under this program is being funded by an Odysseus Program of the Research Foundation-Flanders.
Curriculum vitae
Posts held
- (May 2007 – ) Holder of the Research Chair in Globalisation and Legal Theory, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp.
- (October 2007 – ) Sometime Professor in Globalisation and Legal Theory, School of Law, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
- (Sept. 2001 – Sept 2007) The City Solicitors’ Educational Trust Lecturer in Jurisprudence, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast.
Visiting positions
- (Feb 2005 – to date) Visiting Professor at the Christian-Albrechts University at Kiel (Germany), Chair for Public Law and Legal Philosophy.
Professionnal qualification
- Advocate of the Athens Bar
Education
- 1999 - 2001:
Continuation and completion of my PhD at the Edinburgh School of Law, University of Edinburgh, entitled Law’s Ontology and Practical Reason. Supervisors: Professor Neil MacCormick, Professor Dr Robert Alexy, Dr Emilios Christodoulidis. - 1995 - 1998:
Part-time PhD, chair of Legal Theory, Faculty of Law, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel/Germany, entitled Law’s Ontology and Practical Reason. - 1993 - 1994:
LLM in Legal Theory, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh. Subjects: Legal Theory and the European Community, Sociology of Law, Comparative Constitutional Law. - 1988 - 1993:
Faculty of Law, University of Athens: Upper second class honours degree - grade 7.4 (maximum 10.00).
Teaching
- October 2007 – to date:
University of Glasgow, School of Law: lecturing and tutoring in the LLM Modules Theories of Global Justice and Introduction to Analytical Philosophy - Sept 2007 – to date:
University of Antwerp, Faculty of Laws: lecturing and tutoring in two modules on Introduction to Analytical Legal Philosophy and Law and Globalisation on the post-graduate IELSP degree. - April 2005 – to date:
Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel (Germany); Visiting professor (teaching an advanced UG seminar on: ‘Rule-Following in Law and Morality’). - Oct. 2003 – 2006:
Utrecht Network – Interdisciplinary Summer School in Human Rights (annual two-week course); member of the Academic Committee and Convenor of the law module. - Oct. 2003 – 2007:
Queen’s University Belfast; Institute of Governance, Doctorate in Governance; Convenor of module 4 on ‘Internationalisation and Europeanisation of Legal Orders’ (repeated annually). - 2002 – 2007:
Queen’s University Belfast: lecturing in two modules of the postgraduate Doctorate in Governance degree. Course convenor of the module ‘Citizenship and Legitimacy in the Changing European State’ of the same degree. - Sept. 2001 – 2007:
Queen’s University Belfast: lecturing and tutoring in the LLB modules ‘Introduction to Law’ (1st year), ‘Introduction to Jurisprudence’ (1st year), ‘Human Rights’ (1st Year), ‘Law and Ethics’ (3rd year), ‘Civil Law’ (2nd and 3rd year). Course Organiser in the modules ‘Introduction to Jurisprudence’ and ‘Law and Ethics’. - October 1999 – June 2001:
Tutor in jurisprudence at the Edinburgh Law School of the University of Edinburgh.
Research management
- January 2008 – to date:
Founder and Member of the Executive Committee of the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values - 2001 – to date:
Founder and member of the Belfast Steering Committee of the Forum for Law and Philosophy - Jan – December 2006:
Deputy Director, Human Rights Centre, Queens University Belfast - 11 – 12 June 2004:
Organisation of the 2nd Workshop in Analytical Jurisprudence entitled ‘Law and (the Possibility of) Discourse’ at Queen’s University Belfast. - 25 – 26 October 2002:
Organisation of the 1st Workshop in Analytical Jurisprudence entitled ‘Jurisprudence and Legal Science?’ at Queen’s University Belfast’. - October 2003 – July 2003:
Member of the Organisation Committee for the Joint Session of the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society 2003 that was held at Queen’s University Belfast, 18-21 July 2003.
Other professional experience and training
- 2006 – to date:
Peer reviewer for Hart Publishing - 2006 – to date:
Peer reviewer for Ratio Juris - Academic Year 2002 – 2003:
QUB Educational Technology Unit: Using Computer Assisted Assessment within Queen's Online for Learning and Teaching (ac. year 2002-2003) - Academic years 2001 – 2002:
QUB Staff Training and Development Unit: Courses on:
Small Group Teaching (ac. year 2001-2002)
Preparing and Giving Lectures 1 (ac. year 2001-2002)
Preparing and Giving Lectures 2 (ac. Year 2001-2002)
Supervising Research Students (ac. Year 2001-2002)
Selection Interviewing (ac. Year 2001-2002) - 2001-2002:
Peer reviewer for OUP Textbooks - 2001-2002:
Reviewer for ANGELAKI, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities; published by Routledge. - Oct. 1994 – Summer 1999:
Completion of the legal professional qualification and subsequently Partner at the Law Office I. G. Pavlakos & Associates, 5, Sofokleous street, GR - 105 59 Athens. - 1992-1993:
University of Athens, School of Law, Department of Public Law; editor of the Law Review EFARMOGES.
Grants and awards
- March 2008:
UCSIA grant for the organisation of a conference on ‘Normativity in Law and Morality’ (with Dr S Bertea). - September 2007:
5-year Odysseus Grant to set up a medium-sized research team researching on ‘The Constitution of Globalisation’. - February 2005 – January 2006 and May 2006 – October 2006:
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Chair for Legal Theory and Public Law of Prof. Dr R. Alexy at the University of Kiel. - July 2005:
2-Week research fellowship (covering travel and accommodation) at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC), the Lido, Venice. - March 2004:
British Academy Conference Grant for the Organisation of the 2nd Workshop in Analytical Jurisprudence: ‘Law and the Possibility of Discourse’, QUB Law School, 11 and 12 June 2004. - Nov 2003:
Cornell Law School, Ithaca/US, Gender, Sexuality and Family Project: 3-Week visiting Fellowship. - 2002 – 2003:
Queen’s University Innovations Fund Grant for the development of on-line assessment methods in consultation with students (with Prof. J. Morison). - October 2002:
Mind Association Conference Grant for the organisation of the 1st Workshop in Analytical Jurisprudence: ‘Jurisprudence or Legal Science?’, Queen’s University Belfast, 25 and 26/10/02. - October 2002:
Forum for European Philosophy Conference Grant for the organisation of the 1st Workshop in Analytical Jurisprudence, as above. - July 2001:
Mind Association scholarship covering travel expenses and conference fees for the Joint Session 2001 at the University of York. - 1999 – 2000:
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (Germany): scholarship for the study and completion of a Doctoral thesis. - 1995 – 1998:
IKY (Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation): three-year postgraduate scholarship. - 1988 – 1989:
IKY (Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation): scholarship for academic excellence at the University of Athens.