Lina Papadopoulou

Lina Papadopoulou

Professor

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Triantafyllia Lina Papadopoulou is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, holder of a Jean Monnet Chair for “European Constitutional Law and Culture”, and previously Academic Co-ordinator of the AUTh Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on “European Constitutionalism and Religion(s)” (2018-22). Her main teaching at the Law School includes Greek and European Constitutional Law, Greek and European Human Rights Law, as well as Law in its interrelationship with Religion, Bioethics and Gender. She also teaches at the Master programmes “Bioethics and Medical Law” and “Religion, Geopolitics and International Security”.
Lina studied Law at AUTh (Bachelor 1993), Trier (LLM 1994) and Hannover (PhD 1998) as well as Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE, MSc 1999). She was a Post-doc ‘Marie Curie’ Fellow in the field of European Constitutional Law at the LSE (2000 and 2001) and AUTh (2001/02) and co-ordinator in multiple projects of funded research at AUTH.
Her primary areas of expertise include national, comparative and European constitutional issues and human rights, focusing on democracy and political parties, economy and the constitution, equality and non-discrimination, religion and the state, and bioethical issues. Her publications include monographs, handbooks as well as approx. 100 articles in Greek, English and German.