ATHANASIA DIONYSOPOULOU
Faculty of Law
Penal Sciences
Visiting address Contact Details
Akadimias 45 adionisop@law.uoa.gr
3rd Floor
PROFILE
Athanasia Dionysopoulou completed her undergraduate studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where she also pursued an LL.M in criminal law and criminal procedure law. She received her doctorate from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt.
She is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Faculty of Law), where she teaches courses both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. She also teaches as an adjunct professor at Hellenic Open University. In addition to her academic role, she serves as a Scientific Associate in the Hellenic Parliament. She is an attorney-at-law (Member of the Athens Bar Association) specialized in criminal law. She speaks English, German and French.
She has published books and various articles on criminal law and criminal procedure both at national and European level. She is the author of the books “The defendant’s right to examine the witnesses against him (Art. 6.par.3d ECHR)- How the common law perception and the jurisprudence of ECtHR affect the Greek criminal procedure”, “The evaluation of incidentally obtained evidence in criminal proceeding” and “The crime of money laundering. Analysis of the art. 261 German Penal Code”.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
a) Books
1. The defendant’s right to examine the witnesses against him (Art. 6.par.3d ECHR)- How the common law perception and the jurisprudence of ECtHR affect the Greek criminal procedure, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2017.
2. The evaluation of incidentally obtained evidence in criminal proceedings. Publishing Ant. Sakkoulas, Series: “Penal” number 79, Athens –Komotini 2009.
3. The crime of money laundering. Analysis of the art. 261 German Penal Code (Der Tatbestand der Geldwäsche. Eine Analyse der dogmatischen Grundlagen des § 261 StGB) in german, Lang Frankfurt/Main, Berlin, Bern, N. York, Paris, Wien 1999.
b) Articles and Contributions in Collective Works (indicative list)
1. ‘EU Criminal Law in the Post-Lisbon Era – Challenges for National Policy’ in Papacharalambous Charis (ed.), The Aims of Punishment Theoretical, International and Law Comparative Approaches (Nomos 2020) 113-120
2. ‘The defendant’s right to examine the witnesses against him – the recent case law of the ECtHR and article 363 of the CCP’ in the Honorary Volume I.Giannidis, Criminal law in crisis and under crisis (P.N. Sakkoulas 2020) 585-603
3. ‘The principle of proportionality and the EAW’ in European Criminal Procedure: trends and challenges (Nomiki Bibliothiki 2020)
4. ‘Articles 11-113 and 118-120 (limitation by time) of the Penal Code’ in A. Charalapakis, The New Penal Code - Interpretation per article (Nomiki Bibliothiki 2020)
5. Das Konfrontationsrecht des Beschuldigten in der jüngsten Rechtsprechung des EGMR nach dem Urteil Schatschaschwili gegen Deutschland, ZIS, 10/2017, S. 629.
6. ‘Admissibility and confidentiality of communications- The example of incidentally obtained evidence’, in Papacharalambous Charis (ed.), Exclusionary rule in criminal procedure (Sakkoulas pub. 2015) 111 et seq.
7. Prognostic decisions in criminal procedural law, The example of temporary detention due to the risk of new offenses, Poinika Chronika 2013, p.14 et seq.
ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES
Athanasia Dionysopoulou is a member of the Advisory Board of Journal “Poinika Chronika” and she was also a member of the Advisory Board of Journal “Nomiko Vima” published by the Athens Bar Association. She participated at the Central Advisory Scientific Council for penitentiary institutions at the Ministry of Justice and represented Greece at various European meetings. She was a member of a team responsible for the preparation of national risk assessment report (NRA report) of money laundering and financing of terrorism risk assessment and currently a member of a working group evaluating certain aspects of mutual recognition of judgments and judicial decisions. She participated as a legal expert and Project leader at several IPA Twinning Projects in Serbia and Albania.
