Vassilios Skouris#
| Membership Number: | 3929 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | LUXEMBOURG |
| Homepage(s): | http://curia.europa.eu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 - 2015 President of the Court of Justice of the European Union
- 1999 - Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Communities
- 1997 - Member of the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Greece)
- 1982 - Professor, Faculty of Law, Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
- 1980 - Professor at Bielefeld University (Germany)
- 1977- Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Law, Dimokriteio University of Thrace (Greece)
- 1978 - Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law by the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg (Germany)
- 1973 - Degree of Doctor of Law
Fields of Scholarship
- European Union Law
- Greek and German Law
Honours and Awards
- Awarded honorary doctorates by: the Dimokriteio University of Thrace, the University of Vilnius (Lithuania), the Verwaltungshochschule of Speyer (Germany), the University of Münster (Germany), the University of Panthéon – ASSAS (Paris II), the University of Masaryk (Brno), the University of Panteion (Athens), of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität (Heidelberg), the University of Athens and the University of Bucarest
- Honorific distinctions by the Greek, Italian, Cypriot, Romanian, Austrian and French governments
- Rank of Commander in the Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur of the French Republic
- Corresponding member of the Academy of Athens
