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Constantine Antonopoulos

Constantine Antonopoulos | Professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace.

Telephone: 2531039858
Email: kantonop@law.duth.gr

Born in Greece. Professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace.

LL.B (Thrace), LL.M (Cantab), Ph.D (Nottingham)

The Dean of the Faculty of Law (2024-2027)

Member of several academic societies:

  • American Society of International Law
  • European Society of International Law
  • International Law Association (member of the board of the Hellenic Branch)
  • Hellenic Society of International Law & International Relations. Member of the ILA, Committee on the Use of Force (2009-present)

Author of four monographs, including

  • Counterclaims before the International Court of Justice (Asser Press-Springer 2011)
  • Non-Participation in Armed Conflict (Cambridge University Press 2022)

Cases and Materials book on the settlement of disputes by the International Court of Justice

Co-editor of a textbook on International Law and author of several articles and chapters in books

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Monographs

  • Non-Participation in Armed Conflict. Continuity and Modern Challenges to the Law of Neutrality, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2022
  • Counterclaims before the International Court of Justice, T.M.C. Asser Press-Springer, 2011
  • Individual Criminal Responsibility in International Law, A. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens-Komotini, 2003 (in Greek)
  • The Unilateral Use of Force by States in International Law, A. Sakkoulas Publishers Athens-Komotini 1997, 563 + xxxvii pp.

Other

  • “The Law of the International Society” co-edited with C. Magliveras, 4th edition, Nomiki Bibliothiki 2022 (in Greek)
  • “International Organizations” co-authored with P.Naskou-Perrakis and M. Sarigiannides, 2 nd edition, Sakkoulas Publishers 2019 (in Greek)
  • Cases and Materials on the Settlement of Disputes by the ICJ, A. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens-Komotini 2 nd ed. 2008 (in Greek)

Articles

(i) Peer Reviewed Articles

  • Russia’s Lawfare Against the West in the UN Security Council and the Law of Neutrality, Opinio Juris, 21 November 2023, https://opiniojuris.org/category/topics/uncategorized/
  • An International Law Assessment of the Collective Self-Defence Clause of the 2021 Treaty on the ‘Establishment of Strategic Partnership of Cooperation in Matters of Defence and Security’ Between Greece and France, co-authored with Nicholas Tsagourias, EJILTalk! October 28, 2021.
    https://www.ejiltalk.org/an-international-law-assessment-of-the-collective-self-defence-clause-of-the-2021-treaty-on-the-establishment-of-strategic-partnership-of-cooperation-in-matters-of-defence-and-security/
  • “International Law in Greek” Entry in Oxford Bibliographies Online (2021),
    www.oxfordbibliographies.com
  • “Aggression”, Entry in Oxford Bibliographies Online (2019), www.oxfordbibliographies.com
  • “The Legitimacy to Legitimize”: The Security Council Action in Libya under Resolution 1973 (2011), International Community Law Review 14 (2012), 359-379.
  • Force by Armed Groups as Armed Attack and the Broadening of Self-Defence, Netherlands International Law Review, vol. LV (2) (2008), pp. 159-180.
  • Some Thoughts on the NATO Position in relation to the Iraqi Crisis, 17 Leiden Journal of International Law (2004), pp. 1-12.
  • Whatever Happened to Crimes Against Peace? 6 Journal of Armed Conflict and Security Law 33-62 (2001).
  • The Unilateral Use of Force after the End of the Cold War, 4 Journal of Armed Conflict Law 117 (1999).
  • Effectiveness v. The Rule of Law Following the East Timor Case, 27 Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (1996), pp. 75-111.
  • The Turkish Military Operation of March-April 1995 in Northern Iraq and the International Law on the Use of Force, Armed Conflict Law Journal, Vol. 1, Part 2 (1996), pp. 33-57.
  • The situation in Rwanda and the Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention, International Law and Armed Conflict Commentary, University of Nottingham, Dept. of Law, Vol. 2, Part 1 (1995), pp. 3-22.

(ii) Non-Peer Reviewed Articles

“Armed Forces before the International Court of Justice: The Jus ad Bellum”, Chapter 4 in M. Odello & F. Seatzu (eds.), Armed Forces and International Jurisdictions, Intersentia 2013, 90-140.

“The Israel-Hamas Conflict in Gaza 2023” ELIAMEP Policy Paper#149 December 2023
https://www.eliamep.gr/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Policy-paper-149-Antonopoulos-.pdf

“The Crisis in Ukraine: The Legality of the Use of Force by Russia and the Continuing Validity of the Rule of the Non-Use of Force”, TO SYNTAGMA 3-4/2022, 549-561.

“Issues of the Law of Neutrality in the Ukraine Crisis”, Cahiers de Droit International et de Politique Internationale, No. 4 April 2022, 95-106.

“The ISIS phenomenon: A challenge to the UN” in Ch. Dipla (ed) The United Nations and New Challenges on the International Plane, Sakkoulas Publishers Athens-Thessaloniki 2018, 81-91 (in Greek).

“Military Action Authorized by the UN Security Council and the Responsibility to Protect: Lessons learned from Libya and Syria, in Liber Amicorum Stelios Perrakis, edited by J-P. Jacqué, F, Benoît-Rohmer, P. Grigoriou, M.D. Marouda, I Sideris Publications Athens 2017.

“Libya-Syria: Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect” in Th. Skouteris & M. Vagias (eds.) International Organizations and the Protection of Human Rights. Essya in Honor of Professor Parroula Naskou-Perraki, Themis Publications 2014, 83-101.

“Territorial Disputes and the Treaty of Lausanne: The Case-law of International Judicial Bodies” in Ph.
Pazartzis & C. Antonopoulos (eds.) The 1923 Lauzanne Peace Treaty at 90, Nomiki Bibliothiki 2014, 187-194. (in Greek)

“Issues Arising from the Use of Force in Ukraine”, 1/2014, Koufa Foundation Working Papers, 1-7 (in Greek)

The Relationship between Regional Organizations and the United Nations in the field of International Peace and Security: From Centralization to Decentralization? , in S. Perrakis (ed.), International Co-operation on Universal and Regional Level – International Institutions in Action, I. Sideris, Athens 2011,
299-307.

Belligerent Occupation in Contemporary Law of Armed Conflict – An Overview, in K. Koufa (ed.), Texts on International Humanitarian Law of the First Seminar of the Hellenic Committee for the Dissemination and Implementation of International Humanitarian Law, Sfakianakis, Thessaloniki 2011, 99-110 (in Greek).

The Relationship Between International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, 63 Revue Hellenique de Droit International (2010), issue 2, pp. 599-634.

Dealing with Serious Violations of International Law by the United Nations by Containing Illegality, in S. Perrakis (ed.), Contemporary Legal and Political Aspects of International organization and International Institutions, A. Sakkoulas, Athens-Komotini 2009, 197-204 (in Greek).

Neutrality and Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict in St. Perrakis & M-D Marouda (eds.), Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law: 150years after Solferino, Acquis and Prospects, A. Sakkoulas 2009, p. 367-378.

The UN Security Council and Genocide, 61 Revue Hellénique de Droit International – Anniversary Issue 3 (2008)

United Nations Peacekeeping, in Ch. Dipla & E. Doussi (eds.), Sixty Years since the Establishment of the United Nations, I. Sideris, Athens 2007, 69-86 (in Greek).

The Definition of Crimes Against Humanity, in K. Koufa & F. Pazartzis (eds.), International Criminal Justice as a Mechanism of Enforcing International Law, Sakkoulas Athens-Thessaloniki 2007, 242-268 (in Greek).

Trans-boundary Pollution and the Law of the Sea, in A. Bredimas (ed.), Trans-Boundary Pollution: Municipal, European and International Legal Dimensions, A. Sakkoulas, Athens-Komotini 2006, 91-99 (in Greek)

The Implications of the Use of Force against Iraq of March 20, 2003 on the International Law of Use of Force by States, 9 Digesta 32 (2005) (in Greek)

Questions concerning the Protection of Minorities Rights in the aftermath of the Dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, 21 Hellenic Review of European Law (Special Issue in Memoriam K. Ioannou) 75
(2001). (in Greek)

The Protection of Ethnic and National Minorities in the former Yugoslavia, 4 Digesta 71 (2000-2001) (in Greek)

The NATO Military Action Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Kosovo) and the International Law on the Use of Force, 52 Revue Hellénique de Droit International 411 (1999)

The Concept of Bellum Justum in International Law, 4 Digesta 64 (1999-2000). (in Greek)

The Principle Uti Possidetis Juris in Contemporary International Law, 49 Revue Hellénique de Droit International (1996), pp. 29-88. Chapters in Books (Peer-reviewed)

“Cyber Disputes before the International Court of Justice” in N. Tsagourias et al. (eds.) Cyber Disputes in International Law, Hart 2024.

“State Responsibility in Cyberspace”, Chapter 6 in N. Tsagourias & R. Buchan (eds.), International Law and Cyberspace, 2 nd ed. Edward Elgar 2021

“The United Nationa and Nuclear Weapons” in L. Boisson de Chazournes, E. Doussis, G. Adreonne, A. Zervaki (eds.) Liber Amicoroum Haritini Dipla, A. Pedone 2020, 435-442.

“State Responsibility for Acts of Non-State Actors” in Photoni Pazartzis and Panos Merkouris (eds.) Permutations of Responsibility in International Law, Brill Nijhoff 2019, 11-29.

“The Larnaca Incident-1978” in Tom Ruys and Olivier Corten with A. Hofer (eds.), The Use of Force in International Law. A Case-based Approach, Oxford University Press 2018, 234-241.

“State Responsibility in Cyberspace”, Chapter 3 in N. Tsagourias & R. Buchan (eds.), International Law and Cyberspace, Edward Elgar 2015, 55-71.