Nikoletta Karaliota

Dr. Nikoletta Karaliota holds a PhD in Law from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). Her doctoral dissertation, titled “Confiscation in criminal law and the contemporary broadening of its scope”, was unanimously graded “Excellent” in 2023. She was awarded a scholarship for her doctoral studies by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) and the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI). She holds a Master’s Degree in Criminal Law and Criminology from AUTh, for which she received a scholarship by the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) (2015, “Excellent” – 9.67/10), as well as a Law Degree from the same institution (2010, “Very Good” – 8.24/10 – 1st in graduation cohort). Since July 2025, she has been carrying out postdoctoral research on Artificial Intelligence and criminal procedure at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Nikoletta Karaliota has been an affiliated member of the Research Institute for Transparency, Corruption and Financial Crime – Law School AUTh since its establishment in 2016 and a member of the Greek Society of Criminal Law since 2019. Her academic activities include participation in research projects, training programmes, and national and international academic conferences.

She is a qualified Attorney-at-Law has been a member of the Thessaloniki Bar Association since 2012.

Nikoletta Karaliota has delivered a lecture entitled “EU legislation on confiscation and the presumption of innocence” as part of the course “European Criminal Law (ELE 9)” at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki during the Winter Semester of the academic year 2025–2026. She has also delivered a lecture entitled “Confiscation and the presumption of innocence: Key issues in ECtHR case-law considering the contemporary broadening of confiscation’s scope” at the Summer School “Current developments on financial crime, corruption and money laundering: European and international perspectives” (30 June – 5 July 2025; date of lecture: 3 July 2025).

At the York Europe Campus Law School, she teaches the undergraduate modules “Criminal Law I (General Part)”, “Criminal Law II (Special Part)”, “Specific Sections of Criminal Law and Economic Criminal Law”, and “Composite Applications in Criminal Law”, as part of the the undergraduate programme “Greek Law with Common  Law”, the module “Economic Criminal Law of Business – Prevention and Control Corruption in Business” as part of the Postgraduate Programme titled “Business Law” and the module “European Economic Criminal Law” as part of the postgraduate programme “LLM in European and International Business Law”.

Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Confiscation, Asset Recovery, Financial Crime, Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Law, Terrorist Offences, Terrorism Financing.

A. Monographs

1. Confiscation in criminal law: Contemporary aspects of its expansion, Nomiki Vivliothiki, Athens 2025 [in Greek]

B. Selected Articles in Law Reviews or Chapters in Books 

1. Directive (EU) 2024/1260 on asset recovery and confiscation: A critical presentation of the main changes in the field of asset recovery and confiscation, Poiniki Dikaiosyni  8-9/2024, 907-919 [in Greek]
2. Confiscation and the Presumption of Innocence: Key Issues in ECtHR Case-law Considering the Contemporary Broadening of Confiscation’s Scope, European Criminal Law Review 14(1), 57 – 77 (2024) DOI:  doi.org/10.5771/2193-5505-2024-1-57
3. Karaliota N., Kompatsiari E., Lampakis C., & Kaiafa-Gbandi, M. (2020). The New EU Counter-Terrorism Offences and the Complementary Mechanism of Controlling Terrorist Financing as Challenges for the Rule of Law. Brill Research Perspectives in Transnational Crime, 3(1), 1-80. https://doi.org/10.1163/24680931-12340011