Biography
Michael Papageorgiou, born in Athens and originally from the island of Rhodes, Greece, is Elected Assistant Professor of Constitutional & Administrative Law at the Law School of Democritus University of Thrace (2024), PostDoc Researcher at Law School of National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and Founder & CEO of the ‘M.Th. P. & Associates Law Firm’, Greece.
During his undergraduate studies at the Law School of Democritus University of Thrace (2008-2011) he received, for three consecutive academic years, Prizes of “Academic Achievement” by the National Scholarship Foundation (ΙΚΥ). Michael Papageorgiou holds LLM in Public Law & Political Sciences (2012-2014, with grade of Excellent) at Law School, DUTH and from 2020 he has been awarded a PhD in Public Law from the Law School at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (2020, with grade of Excellent). He has also been V. S. PhD Research Fellow/V.C.R. Associate at University of Cambridge (2016-2020, 2023) (Scholarship/Fellowship Wolfson College/Faculty of Law).
Since 2021, Michael Papageorgiou is Adj. Lecturer and Academic Associate at the LLM program in ‘Public Law & Public Policies’ at the School of Law of the University of Athens (UOA), as well as PostDoc Researcher at the same Law School.
Regarding his wider professional and scientific activity, Prof Michael Papageorgiou is Special Legal Advisor to local government organisations of Greece (in Municipalities, Regional Union of Municipalities of the South Aegean, etc.). At the same time, he has served as Scientific Associate/Legal Advisor of the Special Parliamentary Committee of the Greek Parliament for the ninth Constitutional Review of the Greek Constitution (2019) and also as a Member of Legislative Committees of the Ministry of Environment & Energy and the Ministry of Justice of the Hellenic Republic, Greece (2021-2024).
Until today he has published over 30 extensive legal articles, essays and his Monograph/HandBook in relation to Sustainable Development Law & the European Rule of Law (XXXII + 884 pages) has been co-published by EPLO (European Public Law Organization) and Sakkoulas eds.
As a Visiting Fellow at the Florence STG, with his legal research study and academic presence, wishes to highlight the importance of the modern European Rule of Law and its structural organisational institutions at the EU Member States for the sustainable interconnection between Civil Society and the common Market, in the light of the fundamental EU principles such as: the multi-level public governance, the subsidiarity and the participatory democracy.