SCHOOL OF LAW

Academic Title: Associate Professor of Labor Law

Office Location: Solonos 57, 3rd Floor (next to Saripolon Lecture Hall)

Email Address: dladas@law.uoa.gr

Office Hours: Tuesdays at 15:00 (by appointment only)

PROFILE

Dimitrios N. Ladas was born in Tripolis (Arcadia/ Greece) in 1965 and lived there until the age of 18 when he graduated from High School. He studied in Athens and received his law degree in 1988 from the Law Faculty of the University of Athens. He obtained his PhD (Dr. Jur.) at the Free University of Berlin in 1993. Upon completion of his doctoral studies he served his military service as a reserve officer.

He joined the Law School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in July 2011 as a Lecturer in Law. Since January 2019 he was an Assistant Professor. Since June 2023 is Associate Professor.

Dimitrios teaches Individual Labor law, Collective Labor Law, Law of the Enterprise, Seminar of Labor Law and several Erasmus Program Lessons at the undergraduate level, as well as Special subjects of the enterprise law, Maritime Labor Law and Special matters of general transaction terms at the postgraduate level. In European Law School Network teaches European Labor Law.

Since 2012 and every year he participates in the annual National Congress of Labor Law. In 2013 and 2016 he also participated in the Congress of the Association of Commerce Law.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Dimitrios is the author of various monographs and articles (published in Greek and German Law Journals), while he has also participated in collective works. His main publications include:

• The Effect of the declaration of intent across from language ignorant (1993, in German);
• The application of the law 2251/1994 (Law for the Consumer Protection) at the work relationship (2007, in Greek);
• The Boycott of the Trade Unions and Consumer Associations (2010, in Greek);
• The Banking Transactions (2016) (Collective book/ publisher, in Greek);
• Out of Court Debt Restructuring (Law No. 4469/2017), (2018 Collective book/ publisher, in Greek);
• Personality rights of employees, (2018in Greek);
• Labour Disputes Procedural Issues (2019, Collective book/ publisher, in Greek);
• Elements of Civil and Commerce Law (2019, in Greek);
• The law of the enterprise (2021, in Greek)

PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN LANGUAGE

• Arbeitnehmer oder freier Mitarbeiter? Eine Abgrenzung nach griechischem und nach deutschem Recht, in Europas Universale rechtsordnungspolitische Aufgabe im Recht des dritten Jahrtausends, Festschrift für Alfred Söllner zum 70. Geburtstag, München 2/2000, S. 79. In Cooperation with Prof. Dr. Klaus Adomeit.
• Der Arbeitnehmer als Verbraucher nach griechischem Recht, NZA Beilage. 52/2019 S. 48.
• Das Wirken von Klaus Adomeit in Griechenland. Oder: Die humanistische Denkweise von Klaus Adomeit, in Rechtstheorie 2019, S. 257.
• Crowdworking als Arbeitsleistungsphänomen nach griechischem Recht, EuZA 2021 S. 25.
• Das Heuerverhältnis nach dem Seearbeitsgesetz 2013, Besprechung Ricarda Müller: Das Heuerverhältnis nach dem Seearbeitsgesetz 2013 (Studien zum deutschen und europäischen Arbeitsrecht 71, Diss. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2019., 394 S.), EuZA  2021, S. 257.
• Teleworking and Crowdworking in the Employment Relationship, EuZA 2025 (in January 2025)

ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES            

Dimitrios is a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1990 and currently a Barrister at Areios Pagos (Supreme Court of Greece). Since 9.5.1996 he was an attorney at law at the legal department of the National Bank and Director Attorney at law of the legal department of the National Insurance S.A. until 31.8.2023

His practicing areas include Company Law, Labor Law,Banking law, Private Security Law, Commerce Law and Civil Law

He has been teaching (and examining) Civil and Commerce Law at the Institute of Education of Certified Public Accountants since 2000.

He speaks Greek (native), German and English.

He is married and has one daughter.