[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Lecture: November 19, 2015

[Dimitri H. Gondicas]

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies



Lecture


LGBT Rights in Times of Crisis:
Another "War" Between Greece and Europe?

Nicos Alivizatos
University of Athens




Through an act of Parliament in 2008, Greece recognized for the first time an alternative union to marriage, the so-called "civil union." The latter's ambit, however, was restricted exclusively to men and women.  Five same-sex couples reacted to their exclusion by filing an application to the Strasbourg Court, which, subsequently condemned Greece for discriminating against members of the LGBT community. Since then Greece has not complied with the Court's ruling. The lecture will focus on the reasons behind this non-compliance, in particular, the role of the Church and forces of populism.

Nicos Alivizatos is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Athens.  He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Princeton and Oxford. A former member of the Greek National Broadcasting Authority, the Data Protection Authority, and the European Group of Ethics, he serves on the Legal Council of the Bank of Greece and was Interim Minister of the Interior for the general elections of March 2004.   His monographs include Les institutions politiques de la Grèce à travers les crises, 1922-1977, Paris, LGDJ, 1979 (also in Greek, 1996), The Constitutional Status of the Armed Forces (in Greek, 1987; 1992), Uncertain Modernization (in Greek, 2001), The Royal Property in Strasbourg (in Greek, 2003), Beyond Article 16 (in Greek, 2007), and Beyond the Crisis; What Democracy? (in Greek, 2014). He has published more than 65 articles and legal opinions in Greek, English and French journals and edited volumes.  He is a founding member and first General Secretary of the Union of Greek Constitutional Law Scholars, as well as member of the Board and former President of the Hellenic League of Human Rights. Alivizatos practices law in Athens and specializes in public law litigation, in particular property law, media law, law of education, environmental law and minority rights. He pleads regularly before the Council of State (Greece's Supreme Administrative Law Court) and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.


Thursday, November 19, 2015

4:30 p.m.

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103









Supported the by Paul S. Sarbanes '54 Fund for Hellenism and Public Service

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