UCL Faculty of Laws

Ilias Trispiotis joined the Faculty in 2010 as a Ph.D. candidate working under the supervision of Professor Stephen Guest, Dr. George Letsas and Mr. Colm O’Cinneide. Ilias’s research focuses on freedom of religion in European human rights law. In his thesis, Ilias will defend an alternative theory of interpretation for religious freedom, based on individual autonomy. Legal theory, comparative constitutional evidence, human rights and international law will all be employed to unravel the interaction of concepts such as pluralism, State neutrality and toleration with individual autonomy, through the prism of religious freedom in a socio-legally diverse Europe. This theoretical exploration of the right to freedom of religion could also act as a vehicle to overcome certain inconsistencies in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. His research is funded by the University of Athens for 2010-2014.

Ilias holds an LL.B. from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an LL.M. in Public Law and Human Rights (distinction) from UCL. In 2012-2013 he was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. For his research project he was awarded a PhD Research and Innovation Fund from the UCL Faculty of Laws.

Ilias has worked as a Teaching Fellow at UCL Laws (2011-2012), as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the UCL Institute for Human Rights (2010-2011) and as a Visiting Lecturer at the School of Law of the University of Bedfordshire (2011). Currently he is Reporter for Oxford Law Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (Oxford University Press). In the past he has served as an Editor and Strategic Planning manager at the UCL Human Rights Review (2008-2009), while he is also qualified to practice law in Greece (Athens Bar Association). From October 2011 he is funded by the UCL Faculty of Laws to attend the professional programme in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education (Institute of Education).

He speaks English, French, Spanish and Greek.