MODERN GREEK STUDIESMODERN GREEK STUDIESTensions over the delimitation of maritime zones in the Aegean Sea have persisted between Greece and Turkey for decades, recently spilling out into the Eastern Mediterranean. In light of the recently agreed roadmap for normalizing future bilateral relations, is the time ripe for a solution? This presentation sets out the background of the maritime dispute between Greece and Turkey and discusses possible avenues for a peaceful resolution.
Photini Pazartzis, the Constantine G. Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and European Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and Professor of Public International Law at the Law Faculty of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and Director of the Athens Public International Law Center.
From 2015 to 2022 she was member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (ICCPR), serving as its Vice-Chairperson (2018-2020) and Chairperson (2020-2022). She completed her undergraduate studies in the University of Athens (1983) and her graduate studies at the University of Paris-II Panthéon-Assas (DEA, 1984; Doctorat d’Etat,1992, Prix Paul Guggenheim). She has been Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law and at Wolfson College Cambridge (1998, 2017-2018), and has lectured in various universities and institutions, including the Universities of Paris-I, Paris-II (Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales), Bordeaux, Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, Sheffield, Oslo, the European University Institute, the Xiamen Academy of International Law, the Singapore Academy of International Law and The Hague Academy of International Law.
She is the author and editor of many books on international law, including La jurisprudence de la Cour internationale de justice (Paris, Pedone, 2008), The Judicial Function in International Law (Athens, Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2015), and Permutations of Responsibility in International Law (Leiden, Brill, 2019), which she co-edited with Panos Merkouris.
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