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ANTONIOS TZANAKOPOULOS LLB, LLM (Athens), LLM (NYU), DPhil (Oxon), Advocate (Athens) Lecturer in Law contact details: Tel: +44 (0)20 3108 5058 | internal: x55058 Email: a.tzanakopoulos@ucl.ac.uk Administrator: Liz Milner +44 (0)20 7679 4556 | internal: x24556 |
Profile
Antonios Tzanakopoulos joined UCL in September 2011, after having taught public international law at the Universities of Oxford (2006–9) and Glasgow (2009–11). Antonios studied law in Athens, New York, and Oxford, on scholarships from NYU, the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation, and the AHRC. During that time, Antonios also worked as a researcher for the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens (Special Legal Department) and New York (Permanent Mission to the UN), and for the UN Office in Geneva (International Law Commission). In 2011, Antonios taught as a visiting lecturer at the Université Paris X (Nanterre).
Antonios is Associate Editor for the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, Co-Rapporteur of the ILA Study Group on Principles on the Application of International Law by Domestic Courts, and an advocate with the Athens Bar in Greece. He has led workshops with African judges and lawyers on the application of international law by domestic courts (in Uganda and Benin), and he has worked on a number of cases before international and domestic courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, EU courts, ad hoc and ICSID arbitral tribunals, and the High Court of England and Wales. His monograph, Disobeying the Security Council, was published by OUP in 2011.
Research
Antonios’s research covers all aspects of public international law, with particular focus on the law of international responsibility, the law of international organizations, the law of treaties, the settlement of international disputes, and the relationship between international and domestic law, including the application of international law by domestic courts. Pre-prints of some of Antonios’s research papers are available from SSRN.
Publications
Books:
- Disobeying the Security Council: Countermeasures against Wrongful Sanctions (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011)
- Prix Georges Tenékidès for best doctoral thesis in the biennium 2009–10 awarded by the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations (2011)
- Reviewed in: (2011) 138 Journal du droit international 805–809 (by Robert Kolb) [in French]; (2011) 48 Common Market Law Review 1746–1748 (by Eileen Denza); (2011) 10 Chinese Journal of International Law 671–672 (by Sienho Yee); (2011) 11 Państwo i Prawo 109–112 (by Łukasz Augustyniak) [in Polish]; (2011) 115 Revue générale de droit international public 1016 (by Anne-Catherine Fortas) [in French]; (2010 [published in 2011]) 56 Annuaire français de droit international 996 (by Anne-Marie Werner) [in French]; (2012) 16 Edinburgh Law Review 141–142 (by Marko Milanović); (2012) 59 Netherlands International Law Review 129–132 (by Frédéric Dopagne)
- Discussed by Erika de Wet, Matthew Happold and Marko Milanović in [2011] EJIL: Talk! (May 21–30)
- The Binding Force of Provisional Measures Indicated by International Courts (Sakkoulas, Athens 2006) [in Greek]
Books (edited):
- (editor) The Settlement of International Disputes: Basic Documents (in production: Hart, Oxford 2012) (Series: Documents in International Law) [with CJ Tams]
- (assistant editor) The International Responsibility of States in the Articles of the ILC, in International Jurisprudence and Literature (Sakkoulas, Athens 2004) 157 pp [in Greek] [with A Yiokaris, P Pazartzis (eds), L-M Bolani, M Karavias, V Koutroulis (asst eds)]
Articles/book chapters:
- ‘Transparency in the UN Security Council’ in A Bianchi and A Peters (eds) Transparency in International Law (forthcoming: CUP, Cambridge 2013) (9,000 words)
- ‘Article 30’ and ‘Article 31’ in R O’Keefe and CJ Tams (eds) The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property—A Commentary (forthcoming: OUP, Oxford 2012) (5,500 words)
- ‘Economic Warfare’ (5,000 words); ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ (9,000 words); ‘Minquiers and Ecrehos Case’ (1,500 words); ‘Ships, Visit and Search’ (5,000 words) in R Wolfrum (ed) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (forthcoming: OUP, Oxford 2012) [with AV Lowe] [available at www.mpepil.com]
- ‘Collective Security and Human Rights’ in E de Wet and J Vidmar (eds) Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights (OUP, Oxford 2012) 42–70
- ‘Judicial Dialogue in Multi-level Governance: the Impact of the Solange Argument’ in OK Fauchald and A Nollkaemper (eds) The Practice of International and National Courts and the (De-) Fragmentation of International Law (Hart, Oxford 2012) 185–215
- ‘Domestic Courts as the “Natural Judge” of International Law: A Change in Physiognomy’ in J Crawford and S Nouwen (eds) Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law (vol 3, Hart, Oxford 2012) 155–168
- ‘Domestic Courts in International Law: the International Judicial Function of National Courts’ (2011) 34 Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review 101–135
- ‘Denunciation of the ICSID Convention under the General International Law of Treaties’ in R Hofmann and CJ Tams (eds) International Investment Law and General International Law: From Clinical Isolation to Systemic Integration? (Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011) 75–93
- ‘Article 67—Convention of 1969’ and ‘Article 68—Convention of 1969’ in O Corten and P Klein (eds) The Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties—A Commentary (OUP, Oxford 2011) 1546–1558 and 1564–1568
- ‘Barcelona Traction at 40: The ICJ as an Agent of Legal Development’ (2010) 23 Leiden Journal of International Law 781–800 [with CJ Tams]
- ‘Domestic Court Reactions to UN Security Council Sanctions’ in A Reinisch (ed) Challenging Acts of International Organizations before National Courts (OUP, Oxford 2010) 54–76
- ‘United Nations Sanctions in Domestic Courts: From Interpretation to Defiance in Abdelrazik v Canada’ (2010) 8 Journal of International Criminal Justice 249–267
- ‘Chapter VII Measures (UN Charter) (with regard to International Tribunals)’ in A Cassese (ed) The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice (OUP, Oxford 2009) 260–261
- ‘Floating Storage Units as Ships under the 1992 CLC/Fund Regime: The View from the Hellenic Supreme Court’ (2006) 59 Revue hellénique de droit international (RHDI) 701–710
- ‘Provisional Measures Indicated by International Courts: Emergence of a General Principle of International Law’ (2004) 57 RHDI 53–84
- ‘The Minority Protections Systems of the League of Nations and the Council of Europe: A Comparative Study’ (2003) 16 Public Law Applications 817–851 [in Greek]
Shorter articles and case notes:
- ‘Legality of Veto to NATO Accession: Comment on the ICJ’s Decision in the Dispute between fYR Macedonia and Greece’ [2011] EJIL: Talk! (Dec 7) (4,000 words)
- ‘IGH: Gutachten zur Unabhängigkeit Kosovos’ (2011) 59 Vereinte Nationen 80–82 [with Christian Tams]
- ‘The UN/French Use of Force in Abidjan: Uncertainties Regarding the Scope of UN Authorizations’ [2011] EJIL: Talk! (Apr 9)
- ‘The Distomo Case: Greece to Intervene in the Sovereign Immunity Dispute between Germany and Italy before the ICJ’ [2011] EJIL: Talk! (Jan 17)
- ‘Kadi II: The 1267 Sanctions Regime (Back) Before the General Court of the EU’ [2010] EJIL: Talk! (Nov 16)
- ‘The UK Supreme Court Quashes Domestic Measures Implementing UN Sanctions’ [2010] EJIL: Talk! (Feb 23)
- ‘Stepping Up the (Dualist?) Resistance: the English High Court Quashes Domestic Measures Implementing UN Sanctions’ [2009] EJIL: Talk! (Oct 9)
- ‘The First Orders by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’ (2009) 13 ASIL Insights 11 (Aug 7)
- ‘An Effective Remedy for Josef K: Canadian Judge “Defies” Security Council Sanctions through Interpretation’ [2009] EJIL: Talk! (June 19)
- ‘Attribution of Conduct to International Organizations in Peacekeeping Operations’ [2009] EJIL: Talk! (Mar 10)
- ‘Legality of Veto to NATO Accession: fYR Macedonia Sues Greece before the ICJ’ (2008) 12 ASIL Insights 26 (Dec 29) [with Markos Karavias]
- Case Notes for Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts with analysis:
- Re Bekir Ousta and ors (Supreme Court) ILDC 831 (GR 2006);
- MES MC and anor v IOPC Fund (Piraeus Appellate Court) ILDC 855 (GR 2004);
- MES MC and anor v IOPC Fund (Supreme Court) ILDC 856 (GR 2006);
- Hay v HM Treasury (High Court) ILDC 1367 (UK 2009)
- ‘A Global Administrative Law Bibliography’ (2005) 68 Law & Contemporary Problems 357–377 [with Dave Gunton and Mike Livermore]
- ‘General International Law and International Protection of Human Rights: on Issa v Turkey’ (2005) 18 Public Law Applications 154–159 [in Greek]
Selected book reviews:
- The Practice of the United Nations in Combating Terrorism from 1946 to 2008 (2011) 11 Human Rights Law Review (forthcoming)
- The Constitutionalization of International Law (2011) 15 Edinburgh Law Review 339–340
- Treaty Interpretation and On the Interpretation of Treaties (2009) 53 German Yearbook of International Law 721–724
- Le pouvoir normatif du Conseil de sécurité (2005) 58 Revue hellénique de droit international 655–657
- National Implementation of United Nations Sanctions (2005)
- La Grèce devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (2004) 57 Revue hellénique de droit international 554–555
- State Responsibility in International Law (2003) 56 Revue hellénique de droit international 285–288
Selected conference papers:
- Table ronde sur la responsabilité des organisations internationales (Université Paul Cézanne | Université libre de Bruxelles): ‘Un Etat pourrait-il invoquer la théorie des contre-mesures pour justifier son refus d’exécuter une résolution du Conseil de sécurité dont il allèguerait qu’elle viole le droit international (par example du fait qu’elle méconnaîtrait les droits fondamentaux) ? [with V Koutroulis] (Aix-en-Provence, France, March 2012)
- The Use of International Law in the Domestic Courts: Past, Present and Future (Scottish Public Law Group | University of Edinburgh): ‘International Law in Domestic Courts and the Aarhus Convention’ (Edinburgh, UK, February 2012)
- Developments in the Law of State Responsibility (ILA Hellenic Branch | University of Athens): ‘The Implementation of the Responsibility of International Organizations’ (Athens, Greece, February 2012)
- Transparency in International Law (University of Basel | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva): ‘Transparency in the UN Security Council’ (Thun, Switzerland, January 2012)
- McCoubrey Seminar Series (University of Hull): ‘The International Judicial Function of National Courts’ (Hull, UK, November 2011)
- International Legal Positivism in a Postmodern World (University of Freiburg | University of Amsterdam): ‘International Legal Positivism and the Use of Force’ [with CJ Tams] (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2011)
- Conference on the International Judicial Function (Project on International Courts and Tribunals | U Amsterdam | U Genève | Hebrew U Jerusalem | Loyola LA | UCL): ‘The International Judicial Function of National Courts’ (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2011)
- Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict Seminar Series (University of Oxford): ‘Access to a Court and the Security Council: Implications for Normative Hierarchy’ (Oxford, UK, November 2010)
- Workshop on the Use of International Law in Domestic Courts in West Africa (University of Amsterdam | University of Pretoria | Université d’Abomey-Calavi | West African Bar Association): ‘Key Issues in the Relationship between International Law and Municipal Law’ (summary in French); ‘Wrap-up and Closing Remarks’ (summary in French) (Cotonou, Benin, October 2010)
- State Responsibility: Latvian Tradition and Contemporary Issues (Riga Graduate School of Law): ‘Responsibility for State Reactions to Security Council Sanctions’ (Riga, Latvia, September 2010)
- International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal (ESIL 4th Biennial Conference): ‘The Domestic Court as the “Natural Judge” of International Law: A Change in Physiognomy’ (Cambridge, UK, September 2010)
- Roundtable on Application of International Law in Regional and Domestic Courts: Opportunities and Challenges (University of Amsterdam | University of Pretoria | Republic of Uganda–Judicial Studies Institute): Roundtable leader; ‘Introduction to the Issues’; ‘The Relationship between International Law and Domestic Law: an Overview’; ‘Wrap-up Session and Closing Remarks’ (Kampala, Uganda, July 2010)
- Human Rights within General International Law: Is there a Normative Hierarchy? (University of Amsterdam): ‘The UN Security Council and Human Rights’ (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2009) and (Dublin, Ireland, May 2010)
- Challenging Acts of International Organizations before National Courts (University of Vienna): ‘Domestic Court Reactions to UN Security Council Sanctions’ (Vienna, Austria, September 2009)
- Unity or Fragmentation of International Law: the Role of International and National Tribunals (University of Oslo | University of Amsterdam | ILDC): ‘Judicial Dialogue in Multi-level Governance: The Impact of the Solange Argument’ (Oslo, Norway, May 2009)
Current Teaching
Graduate
War Law (convenor)
International Human Rights Law (convenor)
PhD Supervision
Antonios welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students.