Lina Papadopoulou, Professor, Holder of the Jean Monnet Chair
Lina Papadopoulou is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
She has been awarded by the European Commission with a Jean Monnet Chair for "European Constitutional Law and Culture" (2012-2015 and 2020-24).
Lina Papadopoulou studied Law in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th., Bachelor 1993), Trier (LLM 1994) and Hannover (PhD 1998) and also Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE, MSc 1999). She was a Post-doc ‘Marie Curie’ Fellow at the LSE (2000-2001 and A.U.Th. (2001/02). She now continues her studies with a Master in Educational Studies at the Hellenic Open University.
She has worked as a lecturer in European Studies and Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Political Science of A.U.Th. (2002/03) and she has been teaching as Lecturer (2004-2009), Assistant Professor (2009-2014), and now as Associate Professor for Constitutional Law at the Law School of A.U.Th. She has also taught in several Universities as a guest teacher or through Erasmus programme (Agder-Norway; Bahçeşehir and Kultur Istanbul, Turkey; Humboldt, Berlin, Germany; Open University, Germany; Perugia Italy et al).
Her main research interests include: European, Hellenic and Comparative Constitutional and Human Rights, Bioethics and Human Rights, Theory of the State. She speaks Greek (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), French (fair).
She is a Member of the Interdisciplinary Network of Research on “Medical Acts, Biomedicine, Law & Ethics”, Faculties of Medicine, Law and Theology, and she also teaches within the framework of the relevant Master. She is also a Member of the "European Consortium for Church and State Research".