Symeon Symeonides#
| Membership Number: | 5211 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://willamette.edu/law/faculty/profiles/symeonides/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 to present Alex L. Parks Distinguished Chair in Law and Dean Emeritus, Willamette University
- 1999 - 2011 Dean and Alex L. Parks Distinguished Chair in Law, Willamette University
- 1991 - 1999 Vice Chancellor and Judge Albert Tate Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
- 1984 - 1991 Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
- 1981 - 1984 Associate Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
- 1978 - 1981 Assistant Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
- 1976 - 1978 Assistant Professor of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Visiting teaching positions:
- 2016 Fall: New York University
- 1997 Fall: Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- 1985 Spring: Tulane University
Fields of Scholarship
- Conflict of laws
- Private international law
- Comparative law
- International litigation and Arbitration
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, Federation of Cypriot Organizations of America
- 2019 Elected titular member, Institut de Droit International
- 2017 Elected Foreign Member of the Venezuelan Academy of Political and Social Sciences
- 2017 Elected Honorary Professor, East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai
- 2016 LL.D. honoris causa, Willamette University
- 2016 Robert L. Misner Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship, Willamette University
- 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society of Comparative Law
- 2015 Certificate of Merit, American Society of International Law
- 2014 Ph.D. honoris causa in Social and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Cyprus
- 2013 Courtland H. Peterson Senior Scholar Prize, American Society of Comparative Law
- 2012 LL.D. honoris causa, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- 2011 Honored by Academia Mexicana de Derecho Privado y Comparado by naming its 34th national congress after him
- 2010 Honored by Asociación Americana de Derecho Internacional Privado for “his outstanding career and exceptional contribution to the advancement of private international law”
- 2009 Recipient of Key to the City, Lythrodontas, Cyprus
- 2001 Friedrich K. Juenger Prize in Private International Law, American Society of Comparative Law
- 2000 Honored in Festschrift “A Tribute to Symeon C. Symeonides” 60 Louisiana Law Review (2000)
- 1999 Resolution of Appreciation, Association of American Law Schools Section on Conflict of Laws
