Costas Douzinas

Who is Costas Douzinas?

Costas Douzinas is Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. He is well known for his work in Human Rights, Aesthetics, Postmodern Legal Theory and Political Philosophy. He was deeply involved in the British Critical Legal Studies Movement from the outset and was part of the team which set up the Birkbeck School of Law.

Douzinas joined Birkbeck School of Law in 1992 and was Head of Department from 1996 to 2002. He was educated in Athens during the Colonels dictatorship. He left Greece in 1974 and continued his studies in London, where he received a Masters and PhD from the LSE and, in Strasbourg, where he received the degree for teachers of Human Rights.

Douzinas is a visiting Professor at the University of Athens and has held visiting posts at the Universities of Paris, Thessaloniki and Prague. In 1997 he was awarded a Jean Monnet fellowship by the European University Institute, Florence. In 1998 he was a visiting fellow at Princeton University and at the Cardozo School of Law. In 2002, he was a Fellow at Griffith University, Brisbane and at the Universities of Beijing and Nanjing.