School of Law

Panos Kapotas

Dr Panos Kapotas

Lecturer in Law

Portsmouth Business School

Richmond Building
Portland Street
Portsmouth PO1 3DE

panos.kapotas@port.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Panos Kapotas LLB (Athens), LLM (UCL), PhD (LSE)

Panos joined the School of Law in January 2013, having worked as a Fellow at LSE and SOAS and as a Visiting Lecturer at City University London and the University of Essex. He has extensive teaching experience in the field of EU Law and Human Rights Law and he is currently teaching EU Competition Law, EU Law and Private International Law at the School. His research focuses primarily on equality and non-discrimination in Europe, with his PhD thesis examining the normative relationship between positive action and the notion of ‘full equality’ within the framework of EU Law and the European Convention of Human Rights. He has published in the area of gender equality and he is contributing to edited volumes on aspects of European Human Rights Law that will be published in early 2014. He is a regular invited speaker in the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier, as an expert on positive action and gender equality. He has presented papers in a number of national and international conferences and workshops, most recently in Sheffield, Brussels, Leeds, Sussex and Modena. 

Panos is Level 5 Tutor for 2012-2013 and he is supervising undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.

Current Teaching (2012-1013):

U21701                 International & European Business Law

U21700                 International Private Law

U21691                 Private International Law

U20465                 European Union Law

Membership of Professional Bodies:

  • Member of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)
  • Member of the Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA)
  • Member of the Discrimination Law Association (DLA)
  • Member of the Athens Bar Association (DSA), Greece
  • Associate Member of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Publications:

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • Published: Kapotas, P. (2010) ‘Gender Quotas in Politics: The Greek System in the Light of EU Law’ European Law Journal, 16(1), pp. 29-46. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0386.2009.00495.x
  • Revise and Resubmit: ‘Positive Action as a Means to Achieve Full Equality in Employment’ at the Industrial Law Journal
  • In Preparation: ‘A Taxonomy of European Equality Law’target journal: Law Quarterly Review
  • In Preparation: ‘Diversity on the Bench: Quotas and descriptive representation’ target journal: Journal of Law and Society

 

BOOK CHAPTERS
  • 2014: ‘A Tale of Two Cities: Positive action as ‘full equality’ in Luxembourg and Strasbourg’ chapter in edited volume A Europe of Rights: the EU and the ECHR, Routledge, forthcoming in early 2014.
  • 2014: ‘Towards a Taxonomy of European Equality Law’ chapter in edited volume EU Accession to the ECHR, Hart, forthcoming in early 2014.

 

NON-ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS
  • Kapotas, P. (2008) ‘Putting the finger into the print’: Vehement Criticism of the Press and Freedom of Expression, Public Law Review (EDD), (Sakkoulas publ., Athens-Thessaloniki), April, pp. 506 - 517. (In Greek)
  • Kapotas, P. (2007) ‘Parliamentary Immunity: Democratic Imperative or Necessary Evil?’, Public Law Review (EDD) (Sakkoulas publ., Athens-Thessaloniki), July, pp. 21 - 30. (In Greek)
  • Kapotas, P. (2006) ‘The right to private and family life and the right to property: Continuing violation of Convention rights due to the ongoing military occupation of Cyprus’, Public Law Review (EDD) (Sakkoulas publ., Athens-Thessaloniki), April, pp. 491-494. (In Greek)