Aristides Hatzis

Aristides Hatzis

Professor

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Aristides Hatzis is a Professor of Philosophy of Law and Theory of Institutions and the Director of the Laboratory for Political and Institutional Theory and the History of Ideas at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with a doctorate on Law & Economics from the University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Research in Economics and Fiscal Issues/Paris, a member of the Advisory Board of the Society of European Contract Law/Munich, the Steering Committee of the European Network for Better Regulation/Brussels, and the Editorial Board of the European Review of Contract Law. He is a member of the scientific boards of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy and the Institute for Justice and Growth (EPLO) and a member of the Governing Body of the Historical Archive of the University of Athens. He served (from 2014 to 2016) as a member of the National Council for Research & Technology, the supreme advisory body of the Greek government for the formulation of the Research, Technology, and Innovation policy, as a member (from 2020 to 2021) of the National Committee for the Bicentennial of the Greek War of Independence, and for four years (2002-2006) as a member of the steering committee of the European Association of Law & Economics. He is the recipient of several fellowships and awards and his papers have been published in major international journals and collective volumes. He has taught as Visiting Professor in Greek, European and North-American universities. He is the co-editor of Law and Economics: Philosophical Issues and Fundamental Questions (Routledge, 2015) and the author (in Greek) of Liberalism (Papadopoulos, 2017), Arguments for Liberty (Papadopoulos 2017), Institutions (Papadopoulos 2018) and (in English) The Noblest Cause: The 1821 Greek War of Independence (forthcoming, U.S.A. 2024) His op-eds have been published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the CNBC and other major international and Greek media. He has also given interviews to major international media outlets, including Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg News, Daily Telegraph, Economist, Euronews, Financial Times, Guardian, National Public Radio, New York Times, London Times , Politico, Reason, Spiegel, Voice of America, Wall Street Journal, Yomiuri Shimbun, the Australian, Belgian, Canadian, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and U.S. public TV and Radio, etc.).