Elisavet Symeonidou-Kastanidou

Elisavet Symeonidou-Kastanidou

 

 

 

 

 

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Symeonidou-Kastanidou
Surname: Elisavet
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EDUCATION

  • Graduate of the Law Faculty of the Aristotle University / Thessaloniki (1978)
  • Ph. D. of the Law Faculty of the Aristotle University / Thessaloniki (1982)
  • Scholarships: Scholar of the National Association of Scholarships of Greece.

Current position

Professor of Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

  • English
  • German
  • French

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 Professional activities

  •  Professor of Criminal Law at the National Academy for Judges.
  •  Professor of Criminal Law at the Open University of Thessaloniki.
  •  Member of the Special Court of Art. 99 of the Greek Constitution (2004- 2006)
  •  Member of the editorial committee of the legal periodicals “Yperaspissi” and “Poiniki Dikaiossini”.
  •  Co-ordinator of the University Network “Contemporary Medical Praxis, biomedicine and law”.
  •  Scientific responsible (in common with Prof. M. Kaiafa-Gbandi and A. Pitsela) of the project “Diodos” which is held in the juvenile prison in Diavata with the participation of students of the Law Faculty of AUTH.
  •  Member of the working team of the programme for European Criminal Justice, directed by Prof. B. Schünemann (2005 – 2006).

Member of the following scientific associations:

  • Greek Society of Criminal Law
  • Association of European Members of Legal Professions
  • Society of Members of Legal Professions in Northern Greece
  • Society of Greek Penologists
  • Society for the Study of Medical Law and Bioethics

Participant in many greek, foreign and international congresses (indicatively mentioned):

  • 2002, International Congress of Unesco on “Trafficking in human beings”: Trafficking in human beings as a problem of criminal law, Thessaloniki/Greece.
  • 2002, European Congress of the Research Institute of Procedural Studies on “Trafficking in human organs”: Criminal Law and trafficking in human organs, Thessaloniki/Greece.
  • 2002, Greek / German Congress on “Internationalisation of Criminal Law”: The jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, Thessaloniki/Greece.
  • 2003, International Congress of the Society of Greek Penologists on the “European Convention of Human Rights”: Police Violence and fundamental rights, Hania /Greece.
  • 2003, 2nd European Jurists Forum on “The EU initiatives on organised crime”: The new criminal provisions on organised crime, Athens/ Greece.
  • 2003, Congress of the Centre of International and European Economic Law on “The EU initiatives on criminal law”: The EU initiatives in combating terrorism and organised crime, Thessaloniki/Greece.
  • 2004, Congress of the Bar Association of Patra on “Terrorism and the European Arrest Warrant”: The terrorist crime, Patra/Greece
  • 2005, Congress of the National Centre of Public Administration, the Society of administrative Judges and the International Organization of Immigration on “The role of Public Administration and judicial system on the fight against discriminations and trafficking in human beings”: The new criminal provisions on trafficking in human beings, Corfu/Greece.
  • 2006, Greek / German Congress on “Internationalisation of Criminal Law”: Towards a new definition of organized crime, Frankfurt am Main/Germany
  • 2006, Congress of the Bar Association of Thessaloniki on “Justice and mass media”: journalism and protection of private life, Thessaloniki/Greece
  • 2006, XVII Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law: National Report on Euthanasia in the domestic legal system of Greece, Utrecht/The Netherlands.
  • 2006, 4th Congress of the Society of Greek Penologists on “Money laundering”: The new provisions on money laundering in Greek criminal law, Thessaloniki/Greece
  • 2007, Congress of the Society of Greek Judges for democracy and fundamental freedoms, the Institute for Biological Research, the National Research Foundation and the National Committee on Bioethics on “Law and Bioethics”: Euthanasia as a problem of criminal law, Athens/Greece.
  • 2007, Congress of the Bar Association of Thessaloniki on “Sexual harassment at workplace”: Sexual harassment as a problem of criminal law, Thessaloniki/Greece.
  • 2008, Congress of the Society of Members of Legal Professions in Northern Greece on “Offences against privacy”: The offences against privacy as a problem of the substantive criminal law, Thessaloniki/Greece.
  • 2008, Seminar of the Medical Association of Thessaloniki on “Medical Confidentiality”: Medical confidentiality and criminal law, Thessaloniki/Greece.

Administrative Activities

  •  1985 -1994 member of the Council of the University Library
  • 1993 – 1995 / 2003 – 2004 Director of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Law Faculty
  • Member of the General Assembly of the Law Faculty (many times)
  • Director of the Workshop for European Criminal Law of the AUTH since 2003
  • Member of the Research Committee of AUTH since 2007
  • Member of the Committee of Ethics on Research of the AUTH since 2008

 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Crimes against political institutions in Greek criminal law, Thessaloniki, 1982 (Dissertation- 264 pages)
  • The abortion as a problem of criminal law, Athens, 1984 (318 pages)
  • Crimes against the Constitution, (Art. 134 – 137 Gr. P.C.), Thessaloniki, 1988 (374 pages).
  • Crimes committed by profession and out of habit, Thessaloniki,1990 (214 pages)
  • Crimes against life (Art. 299 – 307 Gr. P. C.), Thessaloniki, 1st ed. 1995 (944 pages), 2nd ed. 2001 (950 pages).
  • Criminal Law, Special Part, 1st Ed. Thessaloniki, 1996, 2nd ed. Thessaloniki 1997, 3rd Ed. Athens/ Komotini 1998, 4th ed. Athens/ Komotini 1999 (260 pages).
  • Studies on substantive Criminal Law, Athens, 2003, (780 pages).
  • Organized Crime and Terrorism. Contemporary developments in European and Greek legal order, 1st Ed., Thessaloniki, 2005 (260 pages), 2nd ed. Thessaloniki 2007 (400 pages).
  • Offences against personal legal values, Athens, 2006 (402 pages)

Articles

More than 180 articles and essays published in legal periodicals and congress minutes in Greece or abroad.

Collective works

  • Special Criminal Laws-Drugs, Athens, 1998 (A collection of all relevant legal texts (national or international) and judicial decisions published in law reviews. Yearly updated. Work in common with the colleague M. Kaiafa-Gbandi).
  • Special Criminal Laws-Guns and explosives, Athens, 1998 (the same description as above).
  • Special Criminal Laws-Intellectual Property, Athens, 1998 (the same description as above).
  • Special Criminal Laws-Smuggling, Athens, 1998 (the same description as above).
  • Special Criminal Laws- Foreigners, Athens, 2001 (the same description as above).
  • Criminal Law, General Part, Athens, 2005 (Work in common with the colleague M. Kaiafa-Gbandi).
  • War crimes: the international obligations of Greece, Athens 2006 (Work in common with the colleagues N. Bitzilekis, M. Kaiafa-Gbandi, A. Papadamakis, Th. Papakiriakou, G. Nouskalis, I. Naziris).
  • Euthanasia in International and Comparative Perspective, The Netherlands, 2006 (Collective Work edited by Prof. M. Groenhuijsen and F. van Laanen).
  • A Programme for European Criminal Justice, Germany, 2006, (Collective Work edited by Prof. B. Schünemann).