Practice Profile 

• Barrister in England and Wales (Lincoln's Inn). Called 2006
• Areas of Practice: European Union Law, Public Procurement, Human Rights  
• Member of the Bar European Group, Procurement Lawyers' Association, Constitutional and Administrative  Law Bar Association, JUSTICE

Academic Profile

• University Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (since 2003)
• Fellow and Tutor in Law, Mansfield College, Oxford (since 2003)
• Areas of expertise: EU law, public law

Degrees, Previous Appointments and Prizes

• BA, University of Athens, 1990
• LLM, University of Cambridge, 1991
• PhD, University of Cambridge, 1995
• MA, University of Oxford, 2003
• Visiting Professor in European Economic Law, Columbia Law School, 2001
• Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics, 1998-2003.
• Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1995-1998.
• Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School, 1995
• Bodossaki Prize for Law 2005 (20,500 Euros), Bodossaki Prizes in the sciences and the social sciences are awarded every few years to an academic under 40 years of age, of Greek nationality or descent, ‘for exceptional achievements in his/her field'

Representative Cases 2008-2010

PUBLIC LAW

Mortell, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Community and Local Government & Ors  [2009] EWCA Civ 1274 (29 October 2009) (Junior to Robert MacCracken QC, instructed by Public Interest Lawyers).

EUROPEAN UNION LAW

Case C-182/09 Seaport v Department of the Environment, European Court of Justice. Written Observations to a preliminary reference from High Court of Northern Ireland (Junior to Gregory Jones, instructed by Carson & McDowell)

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

Instructed by a firm of surveyors in a dispute with NHS Trust on public procurement in services (Written Opinion)

Advised a Local Authority on the application of public procurement Directives on development agreement (Written Opinion).

Advised two firms of surveyors regarding a Framework Agreement on Services (Written Opinion).

Instructed a number of times by a Local Authority regarding the application of public procurement law on a s.106 Agreement (Written Opinion and Two Supplementary Opinions)

COMPETITION LAW

Drafted a complaint to the Office of Fair Trading on behalf of private clients, regarding anti-competitive practices of a trade association (Junior to Gregory Jones)

Other Activities

• In the process of completing training in education law by IPSEA with a view to taking cases (on a pro bono basis) to the Special Educational Needs Tribunal.
• Member of the Council, JUSTICE
• Member of the Athens Bar
• Member of the Bar Pro Bono Unit

Selected Publications

• Managing Editor of the leading practitioner publication in EU Law:
• David Vaughan QC and Aidan Robertson QC (eds.), The Law of the EU, vols. 1-6 looseleaf (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007-2010)
• ‘The Institutions' in David Vaughan QC and Aidan Robertson QC (eds.), The Law of the EU, vols. 1-6, looseleaf (Oxford: Oxford University Press,  forthcoming 2010)
• ‘The Structure of European Union Law' Cambridge Yearbook of European Law (forthcoming 2010)
• ‘On Rights and Responsibilities' Public Law (2010)
• ‘Development Agreements and Public Procurement' Solicitors Journal 3 November 2009.
•  ‘Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Constitution' Canadian Journal  of Law and Jurisprudence 2009
• Legal Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
•  ‘Environmental Rights in the EC Legal Order' 27 Yearbook of European Law 2007
•  ‘The Idea of a European Constitution', 27 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2007) 1-21.
• ‘After Aarhus' European Advocate (2006)

Languages

• Fluent in Greek, working knowledge of German and French.

 

Clerk

James Kemp
Email: james.kemp@ftb.eu.com
DDI: 020 7427 1846