Curriculum Vitae
Professor
of Civil Procedure at Athens University School of Law (since 1982);
Director of the Hellenic Institute of International and Foreign Law (since
1990), which provides to foreign courts official information on Greek
legal issues and to Greek courts official information on foreign legal
systems; Member of the Athens Bar.
Born
in Thessaloniki, 1937, he studied law in Thessaloniki (1955-60) and Berlin
(1960-62), Ph.D. in Law: Free University of Berlin (1962). Assistant of
Civil Law at Thessaloniki University (1965-67), where he was elected
lecturer (1967-71) and then full professor of Civil Procedure (1971-82)
and Dean of the Law School (1979-80). Dr. iur. h.c., University of Hamburg
(1993);
Dr. iur. h.c., University of Paris II (2000).
Academic activities
He
taught and examined, during twelve academic terms, American and German
Civil Procedure, Comparative Law and Comparative Civil Procedure, European
Community Law, Introduction to French Law, and International Business
Transactions at foreign Law Schools (Berlin University, Hamburg
University, Université de Paris II, Louisiana State University, Ohio
State University, Tulane University, Chuo University) and gave guest
lectures at over seventy European, American and Japanese Universities. In
May 1993 he presented a paper on international jurisdiction in delictual
matters to the French Association of Private International Law. In July
1997 he taught at the Hague Academy of International Law (“Enforcement
in the International Context”). Since 1993 member of the Board of the
International Association of Legal Science. Since 1994 Member of the
Academia Europaea (London). Since 1995 member of the Board of the
International Association of Procedural Law. Since 1998 President of the
International Academy of Comparative Law (Paris).
Since
1986 he has been the Greek member of the Commission on the harmonization
of European Contract Law, and since 1993 of the Commission on the
harmonization of European Tort Law; Member of the Greek Constitutional
Court (1976-1977), and of the European Commission on the harmonization of
Civil Procedure (1988-1993).
Greek
delegate to the Council of Cultural Cooperation of the Council of Europe
(1975-79); in the negotiations toward the accession of Greece to the
Brussels Convention (1981-82); to the Diplomatic Conference on the Lugano
Convention (1988); co-author of the Official Report published in the
Official Journal of the European Communities on the accession of Greece to
the Brussels Convention (OJ C 298/1, 24 Nov. 1986).
For
several years he was in charge of all programs of European cooperation at
both the Law School and the University of Athens as a whole. He also
served as President of the Greek Scholarships Foundation (IKY, 1992-1995).
Affiliations
President
of ACA (Academic Cooperation Association) in Brussels since November 1996,
reelected in 1999; ACA coordinates and supervises teachers’ and students’
exchange programs operated by national (British Council, Deutscher
Akademischer Autauschdienst, Office des Universités suisses, etc.) and
Community institutions.
General
or national reporter to numerous international congresses, e.g. on the
enforcement of foreign judgments (International Congress of Procedural Law,
Utrecht 1987), or on provisional measures in transnational litigation
(International Congress of Procedural Law, Taormina 1995), or on public
policy and civil procedure (Journées franco-libanaises, Beyrouth 1998).
President of the XIVth International Congress of Comparative
Law (Athens 1994) and editor of the General Reports (Sakkoulas/Kluwer,
1996). Member of the Study Group on a European Civil Code.
Professional activities
Member
of the Greek Bar since 1964. He pleaded several cases before the Greek
Supreme Court, including its Full Bench. Arbitrator in many international
and some domestic cases. Since 2000 he is the President of the Greek
Arbitration Association; and since 1986 the Vice-President of the Greek
Association of Civil Procedure. Since 1992 General Counsel of the National
Bank of Greece. Expert witness on Greek law, including procedural and
maritime law, before foreign courts and international arbitral tribunals.
Membership of academic associations
Hellenic
Society of International Law and International Relations; Hellenic
Association of European Law; Society of Judicial Studies; International
Law Association; American Society of International Law; International
Society on Family Law; International Association of Procedural Law; Gesellschaft für internationales Verfahrensrecht,
Verfahrensrechtsvergleichung und Schiedsgerichtswesen.
Major
publications
His
publications include a two-volume treatise on Greek civil procedure (1st
vol., 2d ed. 1983, 2d vol. 1986), a German monograph on Expert
Evidence (1963), two Greek monographs on Res Judicata and Incidental Questions (1967) and on
Standing
to Take an Appeal (1968), three volumes of various procedural,
comparative and substantive studies (I: 1980, II: 1994, III: 1995)
totaling about 2.700 pages, a Commentary on the Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement
(with G. Kremlis and H. Tagaras, 1989; Supplement
published in 1996), an Introduction
to Greek Law (co-edited with Professor P.J. Kozyris, 2d ed., Kluwer,
1993), the 1997 Hague
Lectures on enforcement in the international context, and a two-volume
Commentary on the Greek Code of Civil Procedure (co-editor, 2000). He also
wrote the chapter on enforcement proceedings for the International
Encyclopedia of Comparative Law.
Personal details
Married
to Marilena Sarris-Kerameus, an attorney in Athens. They have two children,
a 24-year old boy and a 20-year old girl, both students of law.
April
2001
