Constitutionalist
and international lawyer, Professor of Public Law and member of the Executive
Council (Symvoulio) of Demokritos University of Thrace,
Member of the European Parliament.
George Katrougalos was born in Athens in 1963.
He is married to Iris Adamopoulou, with whom he has two little daughters, Chloe and Avghi. He has obtained his Law Diploma
from AthensUniversity
(1985) and his master (D.E.A -1986-) and Doctorate in
Public Law from the University Paris I-Sorbonne (1990). His thesis (summa cum
laude) had as theme The legitimation crisis of the
Administration. The case of Greece
(Paris I-Sorbonne, Paris, 1990, SakkoulasBrs. Publishers, 1994, Athens).In 1994-1995 he has been visiting professor
at Roskilde University, Denmark, under a fellowship of the DanishResearchAcademy.
In 1998-2000 he taught public law at the University of Orleans, France, branch
in Athens. In
2007 and 2012 he has been visiting the Law School of New York University, as an
Emile Noel fellow and a Senior Emile Noel fellow, respectively. He has lectured
as invited speaker at Columbia, Humboldt, Tilburg University and the London
School of Economics.
He has been
the first President and CEO of Vocational Training S.A (2002-2003), a public organisation of the Greek
Ministry of Labour and Social Security, and member of the Management Board of
the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP), the EU agency specialized in vocational training
policy, Vice-President of the Centre for Educational Research (2011-2012) and
Chair of the Department of Social Administration of Democritus University.
He has worked on research projects of the
Council of Europe, the American Bar Association (CEELI
Project), theEuropean Foundation for
the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the French National Center of Research (C.N.R.S.),
the Institute of Greek Constitutional History and Constitutional Law, and the
University Research Center of Social Security, Health
and Assistance of the Law School of Athens (deputy member of its council of
administration 1995-1996). He has worked, as international expert,in various projects of institutional building
in Uzbekistan
(1997, 2005), FYROM (2000), Slovakia
(2004), Syria
(2003), Armenia
(2004). In 1998 and
1999 he has offered
legal consulting to the Albanian Parliament for the drafting of the new
Albanian Constitution and in 2000 was Coordinator of the Stability Pact
Programme Institutional Support to the countries of Southern
Europe of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs-CECL.He has worked
as special legal advisor to the Greek Minister of Education (1994, 1997-2002).
He has represented Greece
as legal advisor to the 3d Committee of the General Assembly of the United
Nations (2000-2003) and was member of the advising group of the Greek Ministry
of Foreign Affairs for the drafting of the Convention on the Draft Constitution
of the European Union (2003-2004).
He is the
writer of many books and articles in the legal press of Greece, France,
USA, Germany, Russiaand Mexico. He is also editor (with Pr
D. Tsatsos) of thepresentation of the Albanian Constitution in Greek. Among his monographs
are the following: Crisis and Way-out,
Livanis, Athens, 2012 (in Greek), Social Policy and Social Rights at national
and international levels, Law Library, Athens,
2009 (in Greek), Fundamental Social
Rights, A. Sakkoulas, Athens, 2006 (in Greek), Southern European Welfare States (with
G. Lazaridis), Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003, The social state in post-modern era, A. Sakkoulas, Athens, 1998 (in Greek), Constitution, Law and Rights in the Welfare State ... and beyond,
first edition ForlagetSamfundsokonomi
& Plaenlaegning, Roskilde, 1995, second edition
A. Sakkoulas, Athens, 1998, The Right to live the and the Right to die, Athens, Ed. Ant. N. Sakkoulas, 1993. He has also published many articles
in Greek, American and European legal journals, among which:
Foundamental Social Rights, (with P. Ο' Connell) in M. Tushnet et al. (Eds),
Routledge Handook of Constitutional Law, Routledge, London and New York,USA
and social states, an Ocean apart?, European Constitutional Law Review, 4,
2, 2008, The
dim perspectives of the European social citizenship, NYU Jean Monnet Paper
7 2007, Rights in the Welfare State, Jahrbuch des oeffentlichenRechts, 1995, The
implementation of social rights in Europe, Columbia Journal of European Law,
Summer 1996, The
rights of foreigners in Europe, Web Journal of Current Legal Issues 5, 1995,
The principle of legitimate expectations, Review of the Administrative Judges, DioikhtikhDikh, 4/1993.Press here for some other publications.
The last
years is writing critically on the legal issues of Greek Debt and challenges
before domestic and international courts the austerity measures and their
impact on human rights and the social state. In the same framework, he has been
a founding member of the Initiative for a Public Audit Control of Greek Public
Debt.
Press here for an analytical CV.
