Nikos Chatzinikolaou

Dr Nikos Chatzinikolaou was born in 1974 and was raised in the island of Kos, Greece. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1997), where he successfully obtained his PhD “with honors” (2005) after the unanimous decision of a seven-member committee. He practices as a criminal lawyer since 1999. He is a member of Bar Association of Thessaloniki, appointed as a lawyer in Courts of First Instance, Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Greece. He is also a member of the Northern Greece Bar Association, the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association, a regular academic associate at the Research Institute of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for Transparency, Corruption and Financial Crime and an elected member of European Law Institute’s (ELI) Committee for 2017-2018.

He attended his master and Doctoral degree after he participated successfully in a Pan-Hellenic written competition, administered by the Greek State of Scholarships Foundation, which nominated him as a scholar in the discipline of substantive criminal law and criminal procedural law. As a criminal lawyer, he continued being a post-doctoral scholar of the same institution and the Research Committee of Aristotle University.

During 1999-2017 he participated in teaching the undergraduate courses of the general part of Criminal Law, Penology, Criminal Procedure, Special Criminal Laws and Synthesis of Criminal Law and criminal Procedure in the Law Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Conduction of tutorials, designation of case studies and participation in organizing thematic seminars, were some of his main duties while collaborating with National School of Judges, Center of Treatment of the Addicted, Balkan Institute of Public Administration, Bar Association of Thessaloniki, Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government, School of Further Education and Training of the Hellenic Police, Supreme Joint War College etc.

He has participated in the elaboration of numerous Greek and European research projects (ECLAN, excellence project of the Greek Ministry of Education etc.).

1. Legal Interest (από κοινού με M. Kaiafa-Gbandi/Ath. Sachoulidou), in Caeiro/Gless/Mitsilegas/Costa (Eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice, Elgar Publishing, 2023

2. Greek Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, (από κοινού με M. Kaiafa-Gbandi/Ath. Sachoulidou), in Caeiro/Gless/Mitsilegas/Costa (Eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice, Elgar Publishing, 2022

3. Crimmigration in Greece: A Story of Exceptional Derogations from the Rule of Law within a Permanent Situation of Emergency, in Gatta/Mitsilegas/Ziroulia (Eds), Controlling Immigration Through Criminal Law, Hart Publishing, 2020

4. Mixes Courts, Lay Participation in Greek Criminal Procedure, Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2020, pp XVI+238

5. Criminal Law – Special Part, Traffic crimes, telecommunication crimes and crimes against critical infrastructures (articles 290-298 of the Greek Penal Code), P. N. Sakkoulas Publications, 2017, pp XX + 217

6. From L 3386/2006 towards Immigration Code in Zaikos (Ed), Immigration and Law, Anikoula Publishing, 2017, pp 105-119

7. The criminal suppression of money laundering, in Prof. M. Kaiafa-Gbandi (ed.), Financial Crime and Corruption in the Public Sector, v. 1, P. N. Sakkoulas Publications, 2014, pp 745-862

8. The Money Laundering field and the goal of asset recovery, in Prof. M. Kaiafa-Gbandi (ed.), Financial Crime and Corruption in the Public Sector, v. 3, P. N. Sakkoulas Publications, 2015, pp 592-598, 618-621

9. Financial Crime and Corruption in the Public Sector, v. 2, 3, P. N. Sakkoulas Publications, 2014-2015 [in collaboration with Prof. M. Kaiafa-Gbandi (ed.), A. Zachariades, Th. Papakyriakou, K. Chatzikostas, A. Kazanas, I. Naziris]

10. Country Report “Greece” (co-authored with Papakyriakou/Zachariadis/Kaiafa-Gbandi) in Böse/Meyer/Schneider (eds.), Conflicts of Jurisdiction in Criminal Matters in the European Union, v. I, National Reports and Comparative Analysis, Nomos Verlag, 2013, pp 187-257

11. Country Report Greece (co-authored with Antonopoulou), in Apostolou (Ed.), Drug Policy and Drug Legislation in South East Europe, Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2013, pp 177-212

12. Mixed Courts – Interpretation of Articles 377-408 of the Greek Code of Criminal Procedure, in L. Margaritis (Ed.), Interpretation of the Greek Code of Criminal Procedure, Nomiki Vivliothiki Publications, v. II, 2012, pp 1626-1827.

13. The criminal suppression of the illegal immigration, Nomiki Vivliothiki Publications (ed. L. X. Margaritis), 2009, pp XX+353

14. Practice in Criminal Law, Sakkoulas Publications, Athens- Thessaloniki, 2009 (in collaboration with N. Paraskevopoulos, G. Nouskalis, K. Chatzikostas)

15. The framework decision on combating trafficking in human beings. Evaluating its fundamental attributes as well as its transposition in Greek criminal law, in A. Weyembergh/V. Santamaria (Eds.), The Evaluation of European criminal law, Editions de l’ Université de Bruxelles, 2009, pp 131-196 (in collaboration with M. Kaiafa-Gbandi, A.Giannakoula, Th. Papakyriakou)

16. The abuse of the position of vulnerability in trafficking in human beings, Poinika Chronika, 2009, pp 492-500

17. Special Criminal Acts, Nomiki Vivliothiki Publications (M. Kaiafa- Gbandi/E. Symeonidou Kastanidou, eds.), 2009

18. The criminal suppression of the illegal immigration and the human trafficking in the Greek legal order, Poiniki Dikaiosyni 2008, pp 213-230

19. The expulsion of an alien as a sanction of criminal law (article 74 Criminal Code), Sakkoulas Publications, Athens- Thessaloniki, 2006, pp XIV+598

20. Public Limited Company’s representation in the criminal trial, Poiniki Dikaiosyni, 2002, pp 762-771

21. Comments on Decision 5878/2001 of the District Court of Thessaloniki, Armenopoulos 2001, pp 1115-1116

22. The crime of defrauding secured creditors (article 397 Criminal Code), Armenopoulos 2000, pp 1344-1363

23. Comments on Decision 51/2000 of the District Court of Thessaloniki, Yperaspissi, 2000, pp 1029-1045

24. Comments on Decision 755/1999 of the Court of Appeals of Thessaloniki, Yperaspissi, 2000, pp 563-566

25. Comments on Decision 306/2000 of the Court of Appeals of Peiraus, Yperaspissi, pp 1237-1239

Other Publications

26. 2nd Conference in Memoriam I. Manoledakis, The Criminal Code of the Manoledakis Comity, Sakkoulas, 2013, pp 156-158

27. Problematic Legal Framework, Makedonia Newspaper, 18.12.2009

28. DNA in criminal procedure, Eleftherotipia Newspaper, 20.10.2013

Presentations

1. Criminal Liability of transporters, National School of Judges, 2009

2. Special duties on criminal investigation, Ministry of Domestic Affairs, 2009

3. Financial Crime, ELSA Greece

4. Immigration and Law, Koufa Foundation, 2017

5. The new Code of Criminal Procedure, Kos Bar Association, 2019

6. Introduction in Criminal Bank Law, e-Themis, 2016

7. Discrimination in Criminal Procedure, Aristotle University and Greek Union for Human Rights

8. The new Criminal Codes, ELSA Thessaloniki, 2019

9. Confiscation and freezing of assets, National School of Judges, 2020