Nikos Alivizatos

Nikos K. Alivizatos was born in Athens in 1949, though his family hails from Kefalonia and Chios. He studied at the Faculty of Law at the University of Athens and earned his doctorate from the University of Paris V. Since 1980, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Law at the University of Athens, where he was appointed Professor of Constitutional Law in 1992. He was a regular contributor to "To Vima" from 1986 to 2000 and currently writes for "Ta Nea." He practices law at the Council of State and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He is a board member of the Hellenic League for Human Rights. Among his works are: "Political Institutions in Crisis: Aspects of the Greek Experience, 1922-1974" (Themelio, 1983, 3rd ed. 1996), "The Uncertain Modernization and the Ambiguous Constitutional Revision" (Polis, 2001), "The Royal Property in Strasbourg" (A. Sakkoulas, 2003), and "Beyond Article 16: The Before and After" (Athens: Metaichmio, 2007).