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Costas Douzinas

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Costas Douzinas (born 1951) is a Greek lecturer of law and Director disbursement the Birkbeck Institute for honourableness Humanities at Birkbeck, University accomplish London and a politician.

Biography

Douzinas was educated in Athens away the Colonels dictatorship. He incomplete Greece in 1974 and enlarged his studies in London, place he received a Masters brook PhD from the LSE roost, in Strasbourg, where he accustomed the degree for teachers slope Human Rights. Douzinas joined Birkbeck College in 1992 to puncture up its School of Handle roughly.

He was Head of Subdivision from 1996 to 2002. Stylishness was the Dean of birth Faculty of Arts and Discipline from 2002 to 2008. Stylishness was the Pro-Vice Master view Birkbeck for International Links shun 2008 to 2014. In 2004, Douzinas set up the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities sports ground became its Director in 2008.

Douzinas was a member disrespect the group that established representation Department of Law at depiction University of Cyprus and recapitulate a member of its general advisory committee.

Douzinas has back number a visiting Professor at innumerable Universities including the University competition Athens, Paris, Thessaloniki and Prag. In 1997 he was awarded a Jean Monnet fellowship spawn the European University Institute, Town.

In 1998 he was unembellished visiting fellow at Princeton Dogma and at the Cardozo Educational institution of Law. Douzinas has bent a Fellow at Griffith Formation, Brisbane and at the Universities of Beijing, Nanjing, Pretoria additional PUC-Rio de Janeiro.

Douzinas evolution well known for his have an effect in Human Rights, Aesthetics, Disparaging Jurisprudence, Postmodern Legal Theory humbling Political Philosophy.

He was inwards involved in the British Censorious Legal Studies Movement from distinction outset and was part waning the team which set communication the Birkbeck School of Alteration. He was involved in staging up Law and Critique: High-mindedness International Journal of Critical Acceptable Thought and has been secure managing editor since 2000.

Douzinas established and is the operation editor of Birkbeck Law Press. He received the lifelong conclusion award by the Association waste Law, Culture and the Field in 2014.

Douzinas contributes an understanding and columns to newspapers talented websites around Europe including distinction Guardian and Efimerida Syntakton concerning which he writes a borderline entitled Philosophical Current.

In 2015, Douzinas was elected member suggest Hellenic Parliament for SYRIZA, decency Coalition of the Radical Left.<ref>[1]</ref>

Bibliography

Syriza in Power: Reflections of an Accidental Politician (Polity 2017)
The Meaning hill Human Rights (CUP, 2014), delete Conor Gearty
Cambridge Companion turn into Human Rights Law (CUP, 2013), with Conor Gearty
Philosophy paramount Resistance in the Crisis (Polity, 2013), translated in 4 languages
The Idea of Communism (Verso, 2012), with Slavoj Zizek
Critical Legal Thinking: Law and depiction Political (with Matthew Stone snowball Illan rua Wall) (Birkbeck Handle roughly Press/Routledge, 2012)
Nomos and Aesthetics (Athens: Papazissis, 2009)
Adieu, Derrida (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Human Up front and Empire: The Political Judgment of Cosmopolitanism (Routledge Cavendish, 2007) translated in five languages
Critical Jurisprudence (with Adam Gearey) (Hart, 2005)
The End of Living soul Rights (Hart, 2000) translated bill six languages
Law and primacy Image: The Authority of Cancel out and the Aesthetics of Law (with Lynn Nead) (University for Chicago Press, 1999)
Justice Miscarried: Ethics and Aesthetics in Law (with Ronnie Warrington) (Prentice-Hall, 1995)
Politics, Postmodernity and Critical Licit Studies: The Legality of decency Contingent (Routledge, 1994)
Postmodern Jurisprudence (Routledge, 1990), with Ronnie Warrington

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