Dimitris Christopoulos

Dimitris Christopoulos is a Greek scholar, writer, and public intellectual. He is Professor of State and Legal Theory at the Panteion University of Athens, Dean of the Political Science Faculty, and former President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH 2016–19). His writings on human rights, the far right, minorities, migrants, and citizenship have appeared in Greek, English, French, Portuguese, Hebrew, Albanian, and Serbo-Croatian. His many books include Droit, Europe et minorités—Critique de la connaissance juridique (Sakkoulas, 2000), Η ετερότητα ως σχέση εξουσίας [Otherness as a power relation] (Kritiki, 2002), Ποιος είναι έλληνας πολίτης; Το καθεστώς της ελληνικής ιθαγένειας από την ίδρυση του ελληνικού κράτος στις αρχές του 21ου αιώνα [Who is a Greek citizen? The status of Greek nationality from the creation of the Greek state to the dawn of the 21st century] (Viviliorama, 2012), Στο ρίσκο της κρίσης—Στρατηγικές της αριστεράς των δικαιωμάτων [At risk in the crisis—Left human rights strategies] (Alexandreia, 2013), and H κρίση των δικαιωμάτων [The crisis of rights] (Χbooks, 2015). He is coauthor of Προσφυγικό: “θα τα καταφέρουμε”; Ένας απολογισμός διαχείρισης και προτάσεις διεξέδου [Refugees: “Will we make it?”: A management account and recommendations for a way out] (Papazisis, 2016), and 10 1 Eρωτήσεις & Απαντήσεις για το Μακεδονικό [10 1 Questions & answers on the Macedonian Question] (Polis, 2018). Christopoulos is also cofounder of the Minority Groups Research Centre (KEMO), the first Greek independent think tank on minority issues, and a regular contributor to international and Greek media and the press.