Dr. Stavros-Evdokimos Pantazopoulos was a Researcher in International Law within Research Strand A: ‘In the public interest: accountability of the state and the prosecution of crimes’. He is currently a Teaching Fellow at the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He is also a postdoctoral researcher with the SustaINLaw project, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, and the Exposed project, funded by the Kone Foundation.
Previously, Stavros was a postdoctoral researcher with the Toxic Crimes project at the University of Helsinki and the Legal and Policy Analyst of the Conflict and Environment Observatory, a UK-based NGO that raises awareness of the environmental impacts of armed conflict. He is a founding member of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association and a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law.
Stavros has been a visiting researcher at the University of Michigan Law School as a Michigan Grotius Research Scholar, at iCourts, University of Copenhagen, and at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He has also held teaching positions at the Panteion University, the University of Amsterdam, and SciencesPo, Reims campus.
Stavros obtained his Ph.D. in international law from the EUI and holds three LL.M. degrees in international law from NKUA, LSE, and the EUI. His research focuses on the legal dimensions of environmental protection during and after armed conflict, including accountability for conflict-related environmental harm and the emerging debate on ecocide. He has published in the fields of international humanitarian law, international environmental law, international cultural heritage law, and autonomous weapons systems.
