Prof. Demetra Sorvatzioti  is a Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Criminology, and currently serves as Vice-Rector for International Academic Affairs and Research / Chair of the Department of Law. She holds dual doctorates: a PhD in Law (Queen’s University, Canada) on International Criminal Evidence and a PhD in Criminology (Panteion University, Greece) on Criminal Procedure and Evidence, Fair Trial and Poverty. Furthermore, she has an MA in Criminology from the Sociology Department of Panteion University, Greece, and an LLB from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. She has over 15 years of academic experience, has coordinated several projects, and has participated in numerous research initiatives, resulting in significant published work. Her research focuses on international criminal law, comparative evidence and sentencing, crime and addiction, and human rights. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and books in English and Greek, with forthcoming work at Brill. In parallel with her academic career, she has practiced law since 1990 in Greece and Cyprus and served as legal expert for the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and as a TrialWatch® Expert with the Clooney Foundation for Justice. An invited speaker at leading international conferences, Dr. Sorvatzioti combines scholarship, practice, and policy-making to advance fair trial rights and criminal justice reform. 

Dr Dimitrios Kourtis is the Vice-Chair of the Department of Law and is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Limassol. He holds a PhD in Public International Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he currently works as a post-doctoral researcher and adjunct lecturer at the School of Law. He holds a Law Degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in International Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In addition, he is an assistant professor at the Higher Joint War School of the Hellenic Armed Forces. His teaching portfolio covers a wide range of advanced courses in international law, including International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law, International Law of the Sea and Public International Law, delivered in both Greek and English. Furthermore, because of his research activities, he has also dealt with issues of criminal law. He is also a post-doctoral researcher at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the research subject “The Right to Exist: The Case of National and Ethnic Minorities”. He has participated in various research projects. He is the author of the monograph Genocide and the Right to Exist: An International Criminal Law Account” (TMC Asser/Springer Press, 2024) and has also published a number of articles and chapters in journals and collective volumes. In addition, he is an accredited mediator of public policy disputes and a national expert on restorative justice issues. Worked with the Cross-Party Parliamentary Committee on Reparations B’. He has also worked as an expert on compensation issues with the Council of Europe for the Registry of Damages caused by the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.

Dr Petros Konstantinidis is a lawyer and a member of the academic staff of the University of Limassol. He holds a law degree (LLB) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He also holds a Master’s degree (LLM) in European Law and Integration from the University of Leicester and a second Master’s degree (LLM) in Human Rights and Social Justice from the University of Nicosia. He also holds a PhD in Law at the same University. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Nicosia teaching, among others, the courses of Constitutional Law, Human Rights Law, Legal System and Method. From 2010 to 2019 he was a practicing lawyer and has appeared before all jurisdictions and levels of the Courts of the Republic of Cyprus. From 2019 until 2023 he worked as an officer for legal affairs at the Cyprus University of Technology. He was a lawyer and legal advisor, among others, to Public Law Entities and Banking Institutions. He has been invited to give lectures before lawyers on constitutional law issues. He is a member of the Cyprus Bar Association and the Limassol Bar Association.

Dr Kriton Dionysiou is a Lecturer of Civil and Commercial Law at the University of Limassol. He is a practicing lawyer and founder of his own law firm, specialising in civil and commercial disputes, and also participates in arbitration proceedings.

He has held teaching and research positions at the University of Nicosia, the University of Cyprus, and the University of Manchester. He completed his law studies in Nottingham, United Kingdom, before obtaining a Master’s in European Law from Leiden University in the Netherlands and an LL.M. from the University of Law in the United Kingdom. He later earned a PhD in Law from the University of Manchester, where he also lectured. His doctoral dissertation, “CETA’s Investment Chapter – A Rule of Law Perspective”, was published by Springer.

He is the author of “Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Cyprus” (in Greek) and a co-author of “Cypriot Civil Procedure”, a comprehensive Greek-language reference on the procedural rules governing civil litigation in Cyprus.

Dr Dionysiou is a founding member of the Institute for Political and Democracy Studies and serves as Vice-President of the International and European Law Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association. He is certified as a human rights trainer by the Council of Europe, has served on the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Branch of the International Law Organisation, and has received specialised arbitration training from the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

Dr Nikolas Ioannidis is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Limassol. He holds a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Bristol (2017). In the academic period 2017-2018, he was a Nippon Foundation Fellow at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg. He teaches Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law at the University of Cyprus and International and European Law at the Hellenic Open University. He graduated from the School of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2010 and received a master’s degree (LLM) in Public International Law from the University of Bristol in 2012. In 2019, he was awarded by the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations for the best doctoral thesis by a Greek student in international law for the years 2017-2019. In 2020, he received the ‘Daniel Vignes’ award from the International Union for the Law of the Sea for his academic article in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly in relation to activities in undermarketed maritime areas. In 2020, his monograph entitled “Maritime Claims and Boundary Delimitation: Tensions and Trends in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea” was published by the publishing house Routledge. He was President of the International and European Law Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association. He is currently on leave from the University after serving as Deputy Minister of Immigration and International Protection of the Republic of Cyprus

Dr Athina Moraiti is a legal scholar and practitioner specializing in EU law, energy law, environmental law, and external relations law. She is currently serving as a Legal Officer at the Council of Europe (Department of Social Rights, September 2024–October 2025) and has extensive academic experience, having taught European law and policies, administrative law, public administration, and ethics at European University Cyprus (2022–2025). From 2017 to 2022, she lectured in constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, energy law, and environmental law at City Unity College Law School, and from 2018 to 2025 she taught European external relations and energy law in the LLM programme at Panteion University.

Dr. Moraiti holds a PhD in Public, Administrative, and Energy Law, with legal studies completed in Greece and France. She has authored among others: European Energy Law (2025) and EU External Relations Law (2020, in Greek). A member of the Athens Bar Association for over a decade, she previously served as a Legal Officer at the Greek Ministry of Finance (2018–2022). She is fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German, with basic knowledge of Arabic and Chinese.

Dr Venetia Argyropoulou brings 13 years of teaching experience across several academic institutions, including the University of Cyprus, the University of West London, the University of South Wales, the International Hellenic University, the European University Cyprus, Lund University, and the Cyprus Institute of Marketing.

She has designed and taught both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Cypriot and European law, covering subjects such as Legal Science, Corporate Law, Tax Law, Trust Law, Maritime Law, Capital Markets Law, M&A Law, EU Competition Law, EU Trademark Law, and Economic Law.

Her research is equally extensive, with numerous publications in international journals and involvement in major research projects. She has collaborated as a research associate with the University of Oxford, Sorbonne University, and the University of Paris-Nanterre. In 2019, she received the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation’s “Best Researcher in the Humanities” award.

Dr Argyropoulou has also worked with international organisations, including the World Bank and the OECD, serving as Cyprus’s national correspondent on issues related to tax law and gender equality.

Dr Christos Stylianidis is a Lecturer in European Law and Private Law at the University of Limassol. He is a lawyer with an emphasis on commercial and banking law. He holds a law degree from the University of Sheffield, graduating with a scholarship in 2002 and was subsequently recognised as a barrister of England and Wales by the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn in 2003. He holds a diploma and a postgraduate degree in European Union law from King’s College London. He also holds a PhD, his thesis being on judicial review and the rights of individuals in EU law. He is also a fully qualified insolvency practitioner, having achieved 3rd place in the Insolvency Service’s professional qualification exams in November 2015. Finally, he is a co-author of the book “Cypriot Banking Law” (Law Library, 2021).