Biography

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I am a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague (2025–). My research focuses on legal philosophy, collective identity, constitutional theory, and comparative legal philosophy. I advance comparative legal philosophy as a distinct subfield within the philosophy of law—one that examines how different cultural-philosophical traditions address shared questions of justice and legitimacy. More broadly, my research integrates legal philosophy, ethics, syllogistic logic, the philosophy of language, phenomenology, hermeneutics and cross-cultural thought to rethink normativity, rights, and justice. I teach and conduct research at the Institute for the Interregional Study of Constitutionalism and contribute to the ERC-funded project RECONCILE, which develops a new theory of identity constitutionalism.

I previously held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship jointly at Harvard University (2022-2024) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2024-2025), where I led the EU-funded project The ‘Right’ in Human Rights. The project received a 99% evaluation from the European Commission’s independent experts, placing it in the top 1% of proposals submitted in 2020. It examined Aristotelian and Neo-Confucian foundations for an EU–China dialogue on justice and rights.

I hold a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Hong Kong, an LL.M. from the Free University of Brussels, and an LL.B. from the University of Athens. My postgraduate studies were supported by the Hellenic National Scholarship.

My first monograph, Self-Determination Beyond Liberal Legalism: Ethics, Law and the Politics of Justice (Bloomsbury, 2025), offers a critical reconstruction of self-determination that moves beyond procedural and state-centric accounts. Drawing on Aristotelian corrective justice and phenomenological insights, I reframe self-determination as a normative response to deprivation and structural injustice, oriented toward ethical repair and communal accountability. 

My second monograph, From Passion to Reason: Aristotle and the Foundations of Rights (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2026), turns to Aristotle’s Politics, Metaphysics, Poetics, and Nicomachean Ethics to offer a new foundation for rights—not as abstract individual claims, but as creative instruments shaped by deliberation (phronesis), civic friendship, and the pursuit of the common good. 

I am co-editor of The Phenomenology of Law and Normativity (Springer, 2024) and of the upcoming volume Foundations of Justice: Chinese and Western Perspectives on Law, Ethics, and Governance (forthcoming 2027). 

Before entering academia full-time, I worked for seven years as a senior human rights lawyer at the Greek National Commission for Human Rights, where I led institutional responses to the Greek financial and refugee crises, representing the GNCHR before the Hellenic Parliament, the EU, and the United Nations.

I have taught jurisprudence and human rights at institutions including the University of London International LL.B. Program and Ca’ Foscari University. My work has been published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Springer, Global Jurist and others, and I have presented at Harvard, Peking University, Tsinghua, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Milan, the Council of Europe and more.

I am co-Editor-in-Chief of the China: History and Civilization series (Crete University Press), co-founder of the Chinese-Greek Philosophy Forum and the Hellenic Association for Chinese Studies, and serve on the editorial boards of the Africa Journal of Comparative Constitutional Law and Rivista di Diritto dell’Asia Orientale. I work in Greek, English, French, and Italian, converse in Mandarin, and have working competence in Ancient Greek, Latin, and Classical Chinese. I have also recently begun learning Czech.

Across research, teaching, and public engagement, I advocate for a philosophically grounded, ethically responsible, and globally informed approach to law and politics.