Dr. Thomas Papadopoulos is an academic assistant at the International Hellenic University. Previously, he was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. He received his DPhil in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He received a degree of Magister Juris(MJur/LLM) and a degree of MPhil in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He also received his LLB with Distinction (ranked 1st) from the Department of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is an alumnus of the Anatolia American College of Thessaloniki.

Dr. Thomas Papadopoulos is an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Regional Economic Development, University of Central Greece. Furthermore, he is Attorney at law (Greece), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Scholar and Scholar of the A.G. Leventis Foundation, Paris. He was a part-time law lecturer at the Law School, University of Buckingham and a law tutor at the Oxford University Programme for Undergraduate Studies(OPUS), University of Oxford. He also taught at the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus. Additionally, he was Academic Student Coordinator of the Financial Law Discussion Group, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Moreover, he acted as an assistant Legal Advisor (LEGAD) for the NATO Deployable Corps Headquarter at Thessaloniki, Greece (NDC-GR). He participated in workshops of the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument (TAIEX) managed by the Directorate-General Enlargement of the European Commission.

His SSRN Author Page is: http://ssrn.com/author=939323.

Selected Publications

1) Thomas Papadopoulos ‘EU Law and the Harmonization of Takeovers in the Internal Market’, European Monographs Series, 2010, (Kluwer).

2) Thomas Papadopoulos ‘EU Regulatory Approaches to Cross-Border Mergers: Exercising the Right of Establishment’, European Law Review [2011] 71-97 (Sweet & Maxwell, London).

3) Niamh Moloney and Thomas Papadopoulos Chapter 20 ‘Company Law’, in ‘Law of the European Union’ edited by D. Vaughan, A. Robertson, P. Eleftheriadis and published by Oxford University Press, issue 24, (2008), 438 pages.

4) Thomas Papadopoulos ‘The evolution of the European Court of Justice’s Case Law on Gambling and Sports Betting: An Internal Market Perpsective’ in D. P. Panagiotopoulos (ed) ‘Sports Law: an Emerging Legal Order, Human Rights of Athletes’ (2009) 415-429 (Nomiki Vivliothiki).

5) Thomas Papadopoulos ‘The Greek legislation on strategic investments and its examination by the European Commission: the next ‘golden share’ case before the European Court of Justice?’ European Company Law [2009] 264-270 (Kluwer).

6) Thomas Papadopoulos ‘The relationship between takeover bids and mergers: implications for the internal market of the European Union’, International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal [2010] 1-19 (Cameron May, London).

7) Thomas Papadopoulos ‘The ‘Greening’ of Project Finance. Is this a viable ‘Project’?’, Icfai Journal of Banking Law [2009] 8-19 (Icfai University Press, Icfai University, India).

8) Thomas Papadopoulos ‘The European Union Directive on Takeover Bids: Directive 2004/25/EC.’, International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal [2008] 13-103 (Cameron May, London).

9) Thomas Papadopoulos ‘The mandatory provisions of the EU Takeover Bid Directive and their deficiencies’ Law and Financial Markets Review [2007] 525-533 (Hart Publishing, Oxford).

10) Thomas Papadopoulos ‘Legal Perspectives on the Scope of the Tenth Company Law Directive on Cross-Border Mergers’, European Current Law, [2008] 1-5 (Sweet & Maxwell, London).

11) Thomas Papadopoulos, Book Review of S. Grundmann and F. Moslein ‘European Company Law: Organization, Finance and Capital Markets’ Intersentia, 2007, Common Market Law Review [2009] 1019-1021 (Kluwer).