Name: Elina (Eleni) N. Moustaira

Title: Associate Professor of Comparative Law

 

Education: 1983, Graduate of Faculty of Law, University of Athens.

1991, PhD (“summa cum laude”) from the Faculty of Law, University of Athens

 

Contact details: Akademias 45, 10672 Athens

                        Tel.: 2103688629

                   e-mail: emoustai@law.uoa.gr

 

 

Foreign Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese.

 

Academic and professional activities

 

Lawyer at the Athens Bar since 1985

 

Member:

- of the Hellenic Council of Citizenship (Ministry of Interior),

 

- of the Greek section of the International Commission on Civil Status (seat: Strasbourg, France),

 

- of the International Law Association (member of the Administrative Council of the Hellenic Section) and more specifically of the Cultural Heritage Law Committee (seat: London, England),

 

- of the International Academy of Comparative Law (seat: Paris)

 

- of the Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht (seat: Würzburg, Germany),

 

- of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists (seat: New Orleans, USA),

 

- of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cultural Property (seat: New York, USA),

 

- of the Greek Foundation Elias Krispis & Anastasia Samara-Krispis (seat: Athens),

 

- of the Hellenic Association for the Study of Technology and Construction Law, of the Research Institute of Procedural Law Studies, of the Union of Greek Proceduralists (seats: Athens)

 

 

Publications

 

Books

 

1)    The equality of creditors in private international law of bankruptcies [in Greek], Athens–Komotini 1992 (PhD).

2)    Forum Non Conveniens. The equity in the frame of legality [in Greek], Athens-Komotini 1995.

3)    The evolution of private international law in United States of America. Tradition – Revolution – Counter-revolution [in Greek], Athens 1996.

4)    Milestones in the Course of Comparative Law. Thesis and Antithesis [in Greek], Athens – Komotini 2003.

5)    Comparative Law. University Courses [in Greek], Athens – Komotini 2004.

6)    Relation of Law and Art [in Greek], Athens – Komotini 2006.

 

Articles

 

1)    “Forum Non Conveniens” (Inappropriate competent court) [in Greek], Dike 1993, p. 86-97.

2)    The case of industrial disaster in Bhopal [in Greek], Elliniki Dikaiossini 1994, p. 47-58.

3)    Parallel bankruptcies in different States [in Greek], Epitheorissi Emporikou Dikaiou 1994, p. 11-36.

4)    International Conventions on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods [in English], in: Colloquium on Privatization of State Enterprises and Contractual Obligations in Private International Law (Athens, 17th-18th September 1992), Athens 1994, p. 97-105.

5)    (joint report with Prof. P. Kargados) International Lis Alibi Pendens and Forum Non Conveniens [in English], in: Declining Jurisdiction in Private International Law, Reports to the XIV Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Oxford Press, Oxford 1995, p. (235) 247-257 & Revue Hellénique de Droit International 1994, p. 173-183.

6)    International protection of cultural objects, Judgment of a U.S. court for the mosaics of Kanakaria [in Greek], Dike 1995, p. 1123-1130.

7)    Business activity of foreign companies in Greece [in Greek], in:The legal status of foreigners in Greece, Athens 1995, p. 133-148.

8)    The theory of Forum Non Conveniens in England – Problems concerning its application in relation with Brussels Convention 1968 [in Greek], in: Volume in honor of Prof. Elias Krispis, Athens 1995, p. 255-276.

9)    Underwater cultural objects and private international law [in Greek], Elliniki Dikaiossini 1997, p. 1024-1040.

10)  Transfer of technology and Private International Law [in Greek], Elliniki Dikaiossini 1997, p. 1495-1499.

11)  Enforcement of judgments, Greece [in English], European Review of Private Law 1997, p. 321-428 (regulations in 10 States).

12)  Enforcement of judgments and Private International Law [in Greek], Dike 1998, p. 481-487.

13)  Civil liability in case of environment’s international pollution [in Greek], Nomos kai Fissi 1998, p. 29-40.

14)  GREECE [in English], in: European Case Law on the Judgments Convention (ed. Peter Kaye), John Wiley & Sons, 1998, p. 591-615.

15)  La mise en œuvre des sûretés dans le cadre d’une faillite internationale, RHDI 1998, p. 89-101.

16)  Real rights and Private International Law [in Greek], Koinodikion 1999, p. 29-47.

17)  Citizenship as exorbitant basis of international jurisdiction [in Greek], Armenopoulos 1999, p. 1348-1353.

18)  The applicable law to labor law relations in case of transfer of ownership of a ship (art. 479 Civil Code) [in Greek], Peiraiki Nomologia 1999, p. 257-266.

19)  The claim to return the Parthenon sculptures. Issues of Private International Law [ in Greek], Nomos kai Fissi 2000, p. 481-488.

20)  Construction contract: Comparative study of rights and issues of private international law [in Greek], Koinodikion 2000, p. 315-352.

21)  Convention on international interests in mobile equipment and Protocol thereto on matters specific to aircraft equipment [in Greek], Koinodikion 2001, p. 367-390.

22)  Insolvency Proceedings in the States of the European Union [in Greek], Elliniki Dikaiossini 2002, p. 1569-1578.

23)  International Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict [in English], in: International Protection of Cultural Objects. A view to the future, Athens – Komotini 2003, p. 115-128.

24)  Critical Legal Studies [in Greek], Elliniki Dikaiossini 2003, p. 1519-1525.

25)  GRECE. «Régimes Matrimoniaux, successions, et libéralités dans les relations internationales et internes», in: « Livre Bleu du Notariat Latin », 3ème éd., Bruxelles 2003, T. II, ó. 1319-1410 [in French].

26)  The Object of Art as a Text through which to explore Legal Ideas, [in Greek], in: Volume in honor of Prof. G. Koumantos, Athens – Komotini 2004, p. 805-817; [in English], Koinodikion 2002, p. 195-207.

27)  UNCITRAL’s works about insolvency proceedings [in Greek], Volume in honor of Prof. L. Kotsiris, Thessaloniki 2004, p. 719-742.

28)  Regulation 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings. Problems in its application [in Greek], Elliniki Dikaiossini 2004, p. 327-339.

29)  Nationality and Olympic Games [in Greek], Efarmoges Dimosiou Dikaiou 2004, p. 781-792, and in: Olympic Games and Law (eds. N. Klamaris-A. Bredimas-A. Malatos), Athens – Komotini 2005, p. 139-151.

30)  Las relaciones familiares y los Registros Jurídicos en los Derechos griego, español y francés: Una aproximación comparativa, BOLETIN del SERL (Servicio de Estudios Registrales de Cataluña) 2005, p. 137-152 [in Spanish].

31)  Directive 2001/24/EC on the Reorganization and Winding-Up of Credit Institutions [in Greek], Armenopoulos 2005, p. 321-333.

32)  Sports legal order and civil liability. Comparative law comments [in English], Lex sportive 2005; [In Greek], Athens – Komotini 2006.

33)  Which is the aim of comparative law? Efforts of Unification inside the European Union. Is the Unification the best solution? [in English, translated in Japanese], Osaka Law Review 2005, p. 495-512.

34)  Creditors’ rights of a debtor under insolvency procedure, according to the laws of Greece, Germany and USA [in Greek], Volume in honor of Prof. A. Georgiades, Athens – Komotini 2006, p. 1947-1963.

35)  Matrimonios del mismo sexo: Un estudio comparativo de la realidad jurídica en varios países [in spanish], in: Familia, matrimonio y divorcio en los álbores del siglo XXI (ed. C. Lasarte), Madrid 2006, p. 59-69.

36)  Law and Music as directly depended on the social context aspects of art [in Greek], in: Art and Law (eds. A.Papachristou-A. Bredimas), Athens – Komotini 2007, p. 27-42.

37)  States’ Over-indebtedness: Should there be a particular insolvency procedure? [in Greek], Dikaio epixeiriseon kai etairion 2007, p. 141-148.

38)  Separazione e Divorzio: L’esperienza greca (Famiglia e diritto: profili evolutivi di un rapporto complesso. Atti del Convegno tenutosi a Salerno il 6 e 7 ottobre 2006), Quaderni. Notariato 19 (2007), p. 57-66.

39)  International Protection of Adults of Impaired Cognitive Function: Hague Convention of 2000 [in Greek], in: Psychiatry and law: Impaired cognitive function (ed. A. Koutsouradis/K. Soldatos/M. Malliori/I. Karakostas), Athens – Komotini 2008, p. 29-42.

40)  Private International Law of Bankruptcy [in Greek], in: Private International Law of Commerce (17th Hellenic Congress of Commercial Law, Chania 2-4 November 2007), Athens 2008, p. 161-179.

41)  Comparative Law – Comparative Aesthetics [in Greek], in: Volume in Honor of Prof. M.P. Stathopoulos, Athens – Komotini 2010, p. 1673-1683.

42)  Oresteia: From the revenge of Gods to the justice of men [in Greek], in: Volume in Honor of Prof. I. Voulgaris, Athens – Komotini 2010, p. 823-827.

 

 

Many book reviews and comments on cases, in Greek and foreign law reviews.

 

Soon to be published:

 

1)    Art Objects’ Collections. Sociohistoric and Juridical Comparative Study [in Greek], in: Volume in Honor of Prof. I. Androulidaki.

2)    Comparative Law – Anthropology of Law [in Greek], in: Volume in Honor of the memory of Prof. G. Kravaritou.

3)    Publicity of Civil Acts and Private Life [in Greek], Colloquium in memory of Prof. G. Koumantos.

4)    Service and Notification in the Member States of the European Union of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commerciasl Matters [in Greek – original, in French], in: Volume in Honor of the Memory of Prof. St. Kousoulis.

5)    Dance et droit [in French], in: Melanges en honneur de la memoire du Prof. Jacques Phytilis (France).

6)    The Importance of the Return of Cultural Objects [in Greek], Akropolis Colloquium 10.12.2010 (Krispis Foundation).

7)    Recent Case Law in Common Law Countries on the Application of the Forum Non Conveniens Rule [in Greek], Lecture in the Hellenic Institute of International and Foreign Law, 17.01.2011.

8)    The Cultural Dimension of Law [in Greek], Colloquium 19.01.2011 (Krispis Foundation).

 

University Courses

 

Undergraduate studies:

Comparative Law

Law of International Transactions

Law of International Transactions: Foreign students – program Erasmus/Socrates

 

Postgraduate studies:

Comparative Law

Law of International Transactions

Specific Issues of International Procedural Law

 

Relation of Law and Art: Free Seminar.