Apostolos Anthimos

Attorney at law, Thessaloniki Bar, Greece; Ph.D. in International Civil Litigation (Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece, 2002); Two masters of Laws (University of Hanover, Germany (1994) & Thessaloniki (1997). Four monographs on Civil Procedure and Conflict of Laws (in Greek); Co-editor & author of The European Service Regulation – A commentary (Edward Elgar, 2023); Author of Civil Procedure in Greece (IEL – Kluwer law International, 2023); Various publications on topics related to European & International PIL, Arbitration and Dispute resolution, EU law and Civil Procedure. Contact point, European Judicial Network in civil matters; European Judicial Training Network Instructor; Trainer of Judges, lawyers, and MoJ staff in East & Southeastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Central & Southeastern Asia, and South Pacific. UIHJ Expert [https://www.uihj.com/meet-the-experts]. Panelist at the Czech Arbitration Court [.eu ADR]. Editor for PIL, European & International Civil Procedure in the following law reviews: European Legal Forum; Thessaloniki Bar Review “Armenopoulos”; Civil Procedure Law Review (GR); Commercial Law Survey (GR). Editor in chief in: Lex & Forum – a law review on conflict of laws (GR). Co-editor, www.conflictoflaws.net / www.eapil.org/blog;

Founding, Board and Steering Committee Member of the European Association of Private International Law. Member of EU expert groups (DG JUSTICE AND CONSUMERS) on: Modernization of Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial Matters (2018); Expert Group against SLAPP [Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation] (2021). CoE expert: Legal aid ιn Armenia and Moldova (2020-2021).
Accounts: Academia.edu [https://independent.academia.edu/ApostolosAnthimos]; SSRN [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/1735857].

Democritus Faculty of law (2003-2004); International university of Greece (2013); European University of Cyprus (2015-2020); Hellenic School of Judges (2019-2021).

At the York Europe Campus Law School, he teaches the modules “Civil Procedure Law I”, “Civil Procedure Law II”, “Alternative Dispute Resolution”, “Special Procedures – Non-Contentious Proceedings” and “Composite Applications in Private Law” as part of the undergraduate program titled “Greek Law with Common Law” and the module “European and International Dispute Resolution” as part of the postgraduate program titled “LLM in European and International Business Law.”

Civil Procedure Law, Private International Law, and ADR.

ENGLISH / GERMAN / SPANISH

A .Monographs 

1. Civil Procedure in Greece, 3rd Edition, by Pelayia Yessiou-Faltsi, Apostolos Anthimos (Kluwer, 2023)
2. A Commentary on the Service Recast Regulation 2020/1784 (main editor and author of Articles 1, 14-15, 19, 22-26, 29-30, 33-27 (Edward Elgar, 2023)
3. Greek Mediation Law, in: EU Handbook on Mediation (ΟUP, 2012)
4. Greece – national report, in: Guinchard, A commentary on Rome I & II Regulations, Intersentia (2021)
5. Der prozessuale ordre public bei der Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Gerichtsentscheidungen nach deutschem und griechischem Zivilprozeßrecht und nach dem Europäischen Gerichtsstands- und Vollstreckungsübereinkommen, στο: Apostolos M. Anthimos / Marc-André Delp / Harald Harazim, Harmonisierungsprobleme im europäischen Wirtschaftsrecht, Nomos Verlag, Baden Baden, 2000, 11-153

B. Selected Articles in Law Reviews or Chapters in Books

1. Griechisch-Deutscher und Griechisch-Österreichischer Zustellungsverkehr in Zivil- und Handelssachen – Eine Bestandaufnahme der griechischen Rechtsprechung, in: Simon Laimer•Christoph Kronthaler•Bernhard A. Koch (Hrsg), Europäische und internationale Dimensionen des Privatrechts, Festschrift für Andreas Schwartze (2022), 3
2. Reconocimiento y ejecución de sentencias extranjeras según el Reglamento Bruselas I en Grecia. Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional Privado 2013, Tomo XIII, 587-607
3. Denegación del reconocimiento y la ejecución en el Reglamento Bruselas I bis, Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional Privado 2015, pp. 375-393.
4. Zum verbleibenden Wert des Deutsch-Griechischen Anerkennungs- und Vollstreckungsvertrags von 1961, IPRax 2015, 361-363