Nikitas D. Aliprantis

Nikitas Aliprantis was born in 1941 in Sparta. He studied at the Faculty of Law at the University of Athens and subsequently at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences at the same university. He pursued postgraduate studies at the Institute of Advanced European Studies in Strasbourg and then (1967-1970) at the Universities of Cologne and Tübingen. He is a distinguished Ph.D. graduate of the University of Strasbourg, where he was appointed as a full professor in 1988. Since 2000, he has been an emeritus professor at the same university. However, he remains a member of the Social Law Laboratory and continues to supervise doctoral theses. In 1982, Nikitas Aliprantis was elected as a professor at the Democritus University of Thrace, where he taught Labor Law (Greek and International), Social Security Law, and Sociology of Law. At his initiative, the Laboratory of Comparative and European Labor Law was established at this university. From 1996 to 2008, he served as an independent expert and was a member (vice president from 2001-2006) of the European Committee of Social Rights of the Council of Europe. In this capacity, he participated in various missions to European countries aimed at resolving issues related to the non-ratification or non-implementation (or incomplete implementation) of provisions of the European Social Charter. As an independent expert, he has also participated in research committees of the European Union. Since 2004, he has been part of the Franco-German group of academics organizing postgraduate seminars in social sciences in African (sub-Saharan) countries. He is a founding member of the European Academy of Labor Law and is also a member of the Greek and French Labor Law and Social Security societies, the Greek Society of International Law, the German Society of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, the German Society of Sociology of Law, the French Society of Comparative Legislation, among others. He has authored numerous studies related to the hierarchical structure of law, the sociological examination of developments in the field of collective bargaining in Western European countries, the empirical research of the phenomenon of home-based work and its degree of protection, and more generally, theoretical sociology and the theory of law. He has also written studies on individual and collective labor relations as well as broader social rights.