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Dr Charilaos Nikolaidis

Senior Lecturer
Essex Law School
Dr Charilaos Nikolaidis
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    +44 (0) 1206 874804

  • Location

    4SB.5.15, Colchester Campus

  • Academic support hours

    Monday, 11.00 - 13.00

Profile

Biography

Charilaos Nikolaidis joined Essex Law School in September 2015. He holds an LLB from City, University of London, an LLM in International Business Law from University College London and a PhD in Law from King's College London. He has taught for several years at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, and has been invited to lecture in various other institutions. The main body of his research focuses on international human rights law, particularly on the theory and implementation of the right to equality. His research also extends into the relationship between law and literature. Charilaos is a published poet. He is also a lawyer and a member of the Athens Bar Association.

Research and professional activities

Research interests

Human Rights law

Equality law

Judicial Reasoning

Law and Politics

European Union law

Law and Literature

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Human Rights and the Arts (HU932)

  • Law and Literature (LT394)

  • The Protection of Human Rights in the UK (LW244)

  • Regional Human Rights Systems (LW515)

  • Final Year Research Project (LW304)

Previous supervision

Sarka Duskova
Sarka Duskova
Thesis title: Who Should We Accommodate? Opening the Grounds for Reasonable Accommodation Under the European Convention on Human Rights
Degree subject: Human Rights
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 21/6/2023
Sabina Garahan
Sabina Garahan
Thesis title: Adjudicating the Right to Liberty: The Use and Appropriateness of Discretion At the European Court of Human Rights
Degree subject: Law
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 12/1/2023

Publications

Journal articles (13)

Nikolaidis, C., (2022). The Poetry of Rights. Law and Humanities. 16 (2), 289-310

Nikolaidis, C., (2020). Rethinking likeness and comparability in equality claims brought before the European Court of Human Rights. Public Law. P.L. 2020, 448-467

Nikolaidis, C., (2018). Unravelling the knot of equality and privacy in the ECtHR and the SCOTUS: From Isonomia to Isotimia. Human Rights Law Review. 18 (4), 719-744

Nikolaidis, C., (2015). New Challenges to Democracy: Case Study. European Public Law Series. CXVI, 539-555

Nikolaidis, C., (2015). New Challenges to Democracy: Greece. European Public Law Series. CXVI, 351-362

Nikolaidis, C., (2015). Jurisprudence: The European Court of Human Rights in 2014. European Review of Public Law. Vol. 27 (2), 993-1031

Nikolaidis, C., (2014). Equality and Non-Discrimination in Europe: The Shortcomings of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the new Protocol 12. Annuaire International des Droits de l'Homme. VII, 815-843

Nikolaidis, C., (2014). Jurisprudence: The European Court of Human Rights in 2013. European Review of Public Law. 26 (2), 839-892

Nikolaidis, C., (2014). Proportionality and Protection of Bank Deposits: ECtHR, Zolotas v Greece (No. 2), Judgment of 29 January 2013. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 60, 447-452

Nikolaidis, C., (2013). Jurisprudence: The European Court of Human Rights in 2012. European Review of Public Law. 25 (2), 1013-1061

Nikolaidis, C., (2009). Terrorism, the UK Response and Derogation Mechanisms. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 44, 1265-1280

Nikolaidis, C., (2009). Is Public International Law, Law?. Public Law & Administrative Law Review (Epitheorisis Dimosiou Dikeou & Diikitikou Dikeou), 854-866

Nikolaidis, C., (2007). The Limits of Intervention of the Equity Judge in Anglosaxon Law. Public Law & Administrative Law Review (Epitheorisis Dimosiou Dikeou & Diikitikou Dikeou ). 51 (4), 845-856

Books (1)

Nikolaidis, C., (2015). The Right to Equality in European Human rights law: The Quest for Substance in the Jurisprudence of the European Courts. Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group). 9781317701378

Book chapters (1)

Nikolaidis, C., (2015). Constitutional Rights and Private Relations in Greece. In: The Influence of Contemporary Constitutions on Relations Between Individuals. Editors: Florczak-Wątor, M., . Ksiegarnia Akademicka

Other (18)

Nikolaidis, C., (2017).Book review: Yannis Papadopoulos, Democracy in Crisis? Politics, Governance and Policy, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 73

Nikolaidis, C., (2017).Book review: Michael Oakeshott, The Voice of Liberal Learning, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, 2001. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 73

Nikolaidis, C., (2016).Book review: Dominik Haider, The Pilot-Judgment Procedure of the European Court of Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston 2013. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 69

Nikolaidis, C., (2016).Book review: Silvia Borelli & Federico Lenzerini (eds), Cultural Heritage, Cultural Rights, Cultural Diversity: New Developments in International Law, Studies in Intercultural Human Rights Series, No. 4, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2012. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 69

Nikolaidis, C., (2016).Book review: Dragoljub Popović, The Emergence of the European Human Rights Law: An Essay on Judicial Creativity, Eleven International Publishing, Den Haag 2011. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 68

Nikolaidis, C., (2016).Book review: Dominika Borg Jansson, Modern Slavery: A Comparative Study of the Definition of Trafficking in Persons, International Studies in Human Rights Series, Vol. 110, Brill/Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston 2015. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 67

Nikolaidis, C., (2016).Book review: Alexandra Rengel, Privacy in the 21st Century, Studies in International Human Rights Series, No. 5, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston 2013. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 67

Nikolaidis, C., (2015).Book review: Sir James Dingemans, Can Yeginsu, Tom Cross, Hafsah Masood, The Protections for Religious Rights: Law and Practice, OUP, 2013. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 66

Nikolaidis, C., (2015).Book review: Vasiliki Kosta, Nikos Skoutaris, Vassilis Tzevelekos (eds.), The EU Accession to the ECHR, Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, Oregon 2014. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 64

Nikolaidis, C., (2015).Book review: Conor Gearty, Virginia Mantouvalou, Debating Social Rights, Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, Oregon 2011. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 64

Nikolaidis, C., (2015).Book review: Ann-Charlotte Nilsson, Children and Youth in Armed Conflict, Vol. I & II, as part of the series The Raoul Wallenberg Institute – Human Rights Library, Vol. 43/I and 43/II, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston 2013. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 64

Nikolaidis, C., (2015).Book review: Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality. How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future, W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 64

Nikolaidis, C., (2015).Book review: Jonas Christoffersen and Mikael Rask Madsen (eds.), The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics, OUP, 2nd edition, 2013. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 63

Nikolaidis, C., (2014).Book review: Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers, Republican Legal Theory: The History, Constitution and Purposes of Law in a Free State, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2003. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 60

Nikolaidis, C., (2013).Book review: Alison Kesby, The Right to Have Rights: Citizenship, Humanity, and International Law, OUP, 2012. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 58

Nikolaidis, C., (2012).Book review: Ida Elisabeth Koch, Human Rights as Indivisible Rights - the Protection of Socio-Economic Demands under the European Convention on Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 56

Nikolaidis, C., (2012).Book review: Dia Anagnostou and Evangelia Psychogiopoulou (eds.), The European Court of Human Rights and the Rights of Marginalised Individuals and Minorities in National Context, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 56

Nikolaidis, C., (2008).Book review: Jacobs & White, The European Convention on Human Rights, OUP, 4th edition, 2006. Revue Hellénique Des Droits De L' Homme. 37

Contact

hnikol@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 874804

Location:

4SB.5.15, Colchester Campus

Academic support hours:

Monday, 11.00 - 13.00