School of Law

Staff

Biography
Dr. Dimitrios Doukas has been a Lecturer in European Law at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast since August 2005.

He graduated with an LLB (with distinction) and a first class LLM in European and International Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and was awarded a Diploma from the Strasbourg University of Human Sciences in France, Institute of Translators, Interpreters and International Relations. He is a member of the Thessaloniki Bar in Greece, where he has practised for several years, and has worked at the Centre of International and European Economic Law in Greece as Research and Teaching Fellow in EU and Public Law under the supervision of Prof. Vassilios Skouris, present President of the European Court of Justice, and Prof. Krateros Ioannou, former Judge at the ECJ. In 2003 he was awarded the title of Doctor Iuris (magna cum laude) from the University of Hamburg in Germany after successfully completing his PhD thesis in European and Public Law under the supervision of Prof. Meinhard Hilf. While in Hamburg he delivered seminars in his specialist fields and was a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law. His monograph on restrictions on freedom of advertising and the interplay between the fundamental freedoms of the internal market and the fundamental rights to freedom of expression and communication was published in 2005 with Nomos (in German) in one of the most distinguished series entitled ‘Materials for Interdisciplinary Media Research' and edited by Prof. Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, Judge at the German Federal Constitutional Court. In 2006 Dimitrios qualified for the award of the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET) at Queen’s University Belfast. In 2008 he was confirmed in post at Queen’s School of Law. 
 
Dimitrios specialises and has published widely in European Law, including European Internal Market law, EU Constitutional law and EU Media law. He has presented on EU law issues to both academic and professional audiences in the UK and overseas. He was a visiting scholar at the Centre of European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge in 2006, and has held research fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). He has acted as legal advisor to the Greek Ministry of Interior in 1996 and to the Hellenic Republic in Cases C-120/94R Commission v. Greece [1994] ECR I-3037, and C-120/94 Commission v. Greece [1996] ECR I-1513.. Dimitrios has been Reviewer for European Public Law and for book proposals for Cambridge University Press and Routledge-Cavendish. He is a member of the UK Association for European Law  (UKAEL), the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), the Irish Society for European Law  (ISEL), the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) the (England and Wales) Law Society’s European Group  (LSEG), the Hellenic Association for European Law, the German National Committee of Comparative Law, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, the European Union Studies Association  (EUSA), the Franco-British Lawyers Society, the DAAD-Alumni, and the Germany-Alumni. He is a native speaker in Greek and fluent in English, French, German, and Italian.  

Teaching

Undergraduate
European Internal Market Law
European Constitutional Law
European Substantive Law
Supervision of final-year research dissertations in EU and Comparative law
 
Postgraduate (Taught)
European Internal Market Law
European Constitutional Law
Supervision of Master dissertations in EU law
Postgraduate (PhD Supervision)
Second supervisor to a PhD thesis on “The Scope and Limits of the Judicial Interpretative Power in the Context of Constitutional Review: A Case Study of the European Court of Justice” by Gerard Conway (2005-present)

Research
EU Internal Market Law; EU Constitutional Law;  EU Media Law; Law of the European Economic and Monetary Union; European and Comparative Public Law.

Selected Publications
“Commercial Gambling without Frontiers: When the ECJ Throws, the Dice is Loaded” (2008) 27 Yearbook of European Law (Oxford: OUP) (with J. Anderson)

“Untying the Market Access Knot: Advertising Restrictions and the Free Movement of Goods and Services” (2006-2007) 9 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (Oxford: Hart Publishing) 177-215

“The Frailty of the Stability and Growth Pact and the European Court of Justice: Much Ado about Nothing?” (2005) 32 Legal Issues of Economic Integration (The Hague: Kluwer Law International) 293-312

Werbefreiheit und Werbebeschränkungen: Eine europa- und grundrechtliche Untersuchung der Kontrollmaßstäbe für Beschränkungen der kommerziellen Kommunikation, dargestellt am EG-Recht, an der EMRK, am deutschen Grundgesetz und an der griechischen Verfassung , Materialien zur interdisziplinären Medienforschung No. 49 (2005) Baden-Baden: Nomos , 458 pp. (ISBN 3-8329-0867-6)

"The Rule of Law, Human Rights and the Role of UK Courts" ("Estado de Derecho, Derechos Humanos y la Función de los Tribunales del Reino Unido") in El Rol de la Judicatura en un Estado Gobernado por la Regla de la Ley - Alfa Dikia II Project (European Public Law Series Vol. LXXXVI, 2006, London: Esperia Publications) 145-161

“Broadcasting Services and Abuse of Law”, in R. de la Feria and S. Vogenauer (eds.), Prohibition of Abuse of Law – A New General Principle of EU Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008/09)

Administration

Module Leader in European Internal Market Law (2007-present) and European Substantive Law (2005-07)
Module Leader in Civil and Comparative Law (2005-08)
Member of the Governance Research Cluster (2005-present)
Associate Member of the Human Rights Cluster (2005-present)
Advisor of Studies, 3rd year LLB (single honours) (2008-present)