Anastasia Grammaticaki-Alexiou

Dr. Anastasia Grammaticaki-Alexiou, is Professor Emerita of the Law School, University of Thessaloniki. Private international law has been her main teaching and research field in both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. In 2019, she taught at the summer programme of the Hague Academy of International Law.

As a visiting professor she has taught at several American law schools for many years and at the inter-university Master on Human Rights and Democratization in Venice, Italy. For a number of years, she taught art law transactions and cultural property protection at the MA in Art, Law and Economy of the International Hellenic University. In addition, she taught private international law at the Greek National School for the Judiciary and at the Law School of Neapolis University in Paphos, Cyprus. She has offered classes and lectures in American law schools and research centers, and also at law schools in Australia, Bulgaria and Istanbul.

For many years, she was responsible for selecting and preparing students from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki to participate in the world’s most important and prestigious international law moot court competition, the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, where her teams achieved significant distinctions.

With a scholarship from the British Council, she attended introductory courses in English law at King’s College, followed by a traineeship at a firm of solicitors and a barrister’s chambers.

She has participated in legislative work both in Greece and at the EU level. She has served as a judge in the Special Supreme Court of Greece. She is the President of the Committee of Private International Law of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. She has published widely, including monographs and articles in legal periodicals and Festschriften, both in Greece and abroad.

Dr Grammaticaki-Alexiou has extensive teaching experience. Her teaching and research at undergraduate and postgraduate levels have always focused on private international law. In the summer of 2019, she taught at the summer courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. As a visiting professor, she has taught for many years at American law schools and in the inter-university European Master Program on Human Rights and Democratization in Venice. She taught the course Art Transactions and Protection of Cultural Property in the postgraduate department of Art, Law, and Economics at the International University of Greece. She taught private international law at the Greek National School for the Judiciary and at the Law School of Neapolis University in Paphos. She has offered courses and lectures in Greece, and as a visiting professor at American law schools and research centers, and also at universities in Australia, Bulgaria, and Istanbul.

At the York Europe Campus Law School, she teaches the modules Private International Law and Comparative Law as part of the undergraduate program titled “Greek Law with Common Law” and the module “Private International Law for Businesses” as part of the postgraduate program titled “LLM in European and International Business Law.”

Her professional interests include human rights, the protection of cultural property, the Internet and biotechnology, always in the context of private international law.

A. Monographs
1. Best Interests of the Child in Private International Law, Offprint from the Recueil des Cours, Vol. 412, 2020 (Brill/Nijhoff), (in English) 257-434 p.
2. Collection of Basic Legislation of Private International Law, (Greek legislation, international conventions, EU Regulations, Case-Law, Bibliography, Sakkoulas Publications, (in Greek) 2009, 685 p.
3. Μaterials and Hypotheticals of Conflict of Laws (with Z. Papassiopi-Passia and E. Vassilakakis), Sakkoulas Publications, 2017 6 th ed., (in Greek) 155 p.
4. International Trade of Cultural Property and Private International Law, Sakkoulas Publications, (2002) (in Greek, with English Summary) 370 p.
5. Conflict of Laws (with Z. Papassiopi-Passia and E. Vassilakakis), 6 th ed. 2017, Sakkoulas Publications, (in Greek) 572 p.
6. Licit and Illicit Trade in Cultural Goods, Under the Prism of International, Community and Greek Law (with A. Strati, E. Mouameletzi, D. Anagnostopoulou), 2001, A. Sakkoulas Publishers, (in Greek), 251 p.
7. International Child Abduction According to the Hague Convention of 1980, 1996, Sakkoulas Publications, (in Greek, with English summary), 368 p.
8. The Law Applicable to Employment Contracts According to the EEC Convention of 1980 on Contractual Obligations, 1984, A. Sakkoulas Publishers, (in Greek) 169 p.
9. The Domicile of Natural Persons in Private International Law, 1980, Sfakianakis Publications, (in Greek, with English summary) 275 p.

B. Selected Articles in Law Reviews or Chapters in Books
1. Migrant and Refugee Children: Issues of Private International Law, in Evrigenis Yearbook of International and European Law, 2021 (in English), p. 11-18.
2. The Private International Law of Contractual Obligations, Art 25 CC, Interpretation of Reg. 593/2008 and of the Rome Convention of 1980, in Georgiades/Stathopoulos, Civil Code, General Principles, v. Ia , P.N. Sakkoulas, 2016, p. 455-521.
3. The Private International Law of Extra-Contractual Obligations. Art. 26 and Interpretation of Reg. 864/2007, in Georgiades/Stathopoulos, Civil Code, General Principles, t. Ia , P.N. Sakkoulas, p. 522-582.
4. Occupation and Property Rights, in Georgiades/Stathopoulos, Civil Code, General Principles, v. Ia , P.N. Sakkoulas, p. 578-572.
5. Marriage and Cohabitation Agreement of Same-Sex Persons in Conflict of Laws: An Initial Approach, In Memoriam of H. Krispis, 2015, p. 47.
6. Cross Border Medically Assisted Reproduction: What Are the Challenges Conflict of Laws is Facing? In Medically Assisted Reproduction in Europe: Social, Moral and Legal Issues, Sakkoulas Publications, 2015, p. 427-441.
7. Same-Sex Unions and Conflict of Laws: An Overview, Essays in Honour of Professsor Elias Krispis, 2014, (in English) p. 241-254.
8. Applicable Law and International Jurisdiction in International Tourist Transactions. Contracts and Torts, in The International and European Dimension of Tourism, Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2012, p. 59.
9. The European Small Claims Procedure and Private International Law. An International Commerce Perspective (with N. Davrados) in: N. Neuwahl & S. Hammamoun (Eds.), The Philosophy of Small Change: Transnational Litigation in the EU and Beyond, Montreal: Éditions Thémis 2013 (in English)
10. Protection of Cultural Heritage from the Viewpoint of Human Rights, in Protection and Return of Cultural Property, Sakkoulas Publications, 2011, p. 43.