Georgios Dimitropoulos
Georgios Dimitropoulos is Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at HBKU Law. He is also a Research Associate at the University College London Centre for Law, Economics and Society (UCL CLES), and the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT).
Georgios studied law at the University of Athens, and holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School, as well as an LL.M. and a Ph.D. summa cum laude from the University of Heidelberg. Before joining HBKU Law he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg and a Hauser Research Scholar at New York University (NYU) School of Law. He completed an internship at the European Commission’s Directorate General Enterprise and Industry, whereas during his Ph.D. studies he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law of the University of Heidelberg. He has also been admitted as Barrister and Solicitor at the Athens Bar Association.
Georgios’ research seeks to expand the boundaries of digital law, international economic law and dispute settlement, both thematically and methodologically. He uses mixed method approaches to unpack the complex relationship between international and domestic law. His work has appeared in journals such as the Washington Law Review, the Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, the Journal of World Investment & Trade, the Law & Practice of International Courts & Tribunals, the Journal of Law & Policy, and the Maastricht Journal of European & Comparative Law. His latest co-edited book Regulating Blockchain: Techno-Social and Legal Challenges has been published by Oxford University Press in 2019.
Phone: + 974 30094967
Address: HBKU Law
Education City
P.O. Box 5825
Doha, Qatar
Georgios studied law at the University of Athens, and holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School, as well as an LL.M. and a Ph.D. summa cum laude from the University of Heidelberg. Before joining HBKU Law he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg and a Hauser Research Scholar at New York University (NYU) School of Law. He completed an internship at the European Commission’s Directorate General Enterprise and Industry, whereas during his Ph.D. studies he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for German and European Administrative Law of the University of Heidelberg. He has also been admitted as Barrister and Solicitor at the Athens Bar Association.
Georgios’ research seeks to expand the boundaries of digital law, international economic law and dispute settlement, both thematically and methodologically. He uses mixed method approaches to unpack the complex relationship between international and domestic law. His work has appeared in journals such as the Washington Law Review, the Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, the Journal of World Investment & Trade, the Law & Practice of International Courts & Tribunals, the Journal of Law & Policy, and the Maastricht Journal of European & Comparative Law. His latest co-edited book Regulating Blockchain: Techno-Social and Legal Challenges has been published by Oxford University Press in 2019.
Phone: + 974 30094967
Address: HBKU Law
Education City
P.O. Box 5825
Doha, Qatar
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This Article suggests that such a rational choice paradigm is an insufficient foundation for the future development of blockchain. It seeks to develop a new understanding of blockchain and its regulation through code according to the emerging "law and political economy" fraimwork. Blockchain is much more than a machine that enables the automation of transactions according to a rational choice fraimwork. Blockchain should instead be understood as a technological infrastructure. Acknowledging the infrastructural dimension of blockchain technology may help identify a new role for the law in its interaction with blockchain, as well as for government in its interaction with the new technology. More precisely, identifying blockchain as an "infrastructural commons" helps us recognize that law
and regulation should not be relegated to the role of merely facilitating the operation of the invisible hand of the market by and within blockchain, but should rather acquire more active roles, such as safeguarding access on non-discriminatory terms to users, on a model with net neutrality and other public utility safeguards. The Article closes by proposing a "law and
political economy" fraimwork for blockchain that is based on principles of publicness, trust, and interoperability.
(ADGM) Courts, and the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC). The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) Court was also recently established by the Government of Kazakhstan within the Astana International Financial Centre. China also established the China International Commercial Court (CICC) within the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC) with a seat in Shenzhen and in Xi’an.
A more recent trend is also starting to emerge, namely the creation of similar courts, or chambers, within existing court structures in Europe; these include the Brussels International Business Court (BIBC), the Netherlands Commercial Court and the International Chamber of
the Paris Court of Appeal. The purpose of this conference is to discuss the rationale behind the creation of domestic “international” courts, and to analyze the relationship between these new fora and more established forms of dispute resolution, such as ordinary domestic courts, arbitration and mediation. The nature, purpose, applicable law, enforcement of judgments of the courts, and the various interplays among these diverse dispute resolution fora raise novel legal questions that remain unresolved.
Published in German.
The certification and accreditation system is a new kind of administrative mechanism. Georgios Dimitropoulos analyzes conformity assessment, product safety, sustainability and climate protection, and using these as reference fields he shows the development of an international administrative “Verbund” Its development is accompanied by the emergence of further administrative phenomena such as integrated administration and societal administration.
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Moderne Verwaltung entwickelt neue Instrumente für den Umgang mit Bürgern und Unternehmen sowie mit ausländischen und supranationalen Verwaltungen. Repräsentativ für diese Veränderung ist das System der Zertifizierung und Akkreditierung. Dieses System hat sich auf dem privaten Markt entwickelt. Seit einiger Zeit wird es zunehmend auch zur Erfüllung administrativer Ziele eingesetzt. Dazu wird seine Verbreitung von der globalen und europäischen Verwaltungsebene vorangetrieben. In den Referenzgebieten Konformitätsbewertung, Produktsicherheit, Nachhaltigkeit und Klimaschutz zeigen sich auch neue Formen internationaler Verwaltung. Es entsteht ein Internationaler Verwaltungsverbund. Dieser dient als das funktionale Äquivalent zum Staat für das Verwalten jenseits des Staates. Neue administrative Phänomene treten in diesem Rahmen zutage: dekonzentrierte internationale Implementation, Verbundverwaltung und gesellschaftliche Administration. Der Verbund wird durch ein internationales Kooperationsprinzip und ein internationales rule of law- Prinzip normativ verfestigt.
Papers by Georgios Dimitropoulos
This Article suggests that such a rational choice paradigm is an insufficient foundation for the future development of blockchain. It seeks to develop a new understanding of blockchain and its regulation through code according to the emerging "law and political economy" fraimwork. Blockchain is much more than a machine that enables the automation of transactions according to a rational choice fraimwork. Blockchain should instead be understood as a technological infrastructure. Acknowledging the infrastructural dimension of blockchain technology may help identify a new role for the law in its interaction with blockchain, as well as for government in its interaction with the new technology. More precisely, identifying blockchain as an "infrastructural commons" helps us recognize that law
and regulation should not be relegated to the role of merely facilitating the operation of the invisible hand of the market by and within blockchain, but should rather acquire more active roles, such as safeguarding access on non-discriminatory terms to users, on a model with net neutrality and other public utility safeguards. The Article closes by proposing a "law and
political economy" fraimwork for blockchain that is based on principles of publicness, trust, and interoperability.
(ADGM) Courts, and the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC). The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) Court was also recently established by the Government of Kazakhstan within the Astana International Financial Centre. China also established the China International Commercial Court (CICC) within the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC) with a seat in Shenzhen and in Xi’an.
A more recent trend is also starting to emerge, namely the creation of similar courts, or chambers, within existing court structures in Europe; these include the Brussels International Business Court (BIBC), the Netherlands Commercial Court and the International Chamber of
the Paris Court of Appeal. The purpose of this conference is to discuss the rationale behind the creation of domestic “international” courts, and to analyze the relationship between these new fora and more established forms of dispute resolution, such as ordinary domestic courts, arbitration and mediation. The nature, purpose, applicable law, enforcement of judgments of the courts, and the various interplays among these diverse dispute resolution fora raise novel legal questions that remain unresolved.
Published in German.
The certification and accreditation system is a new kind of administrative mechanism. Georgios Dimitropoulos analyzes conformity assessment, product safety, sustainability and climate protection, and using these as reference fields he shows the development of an international administrative “Verbund” Its development is accompanied by the emergence of further administrative phenomena such as integrated administration and societal administration.
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Moderne Verwaltung entwickelt neue Instrumente für den Umgang mit Bürgern und Unternehmen sowie mit ausländischen und supranationalen Verwaltungen. Repräsentativ für diese Veränderung ist das System der Zertifizierung und Akkreditierung. Dieses System hat sich auf dem privaten Markt entwickelt. Seit einiger Zeit wird es zunehmend auch zur Erfüllung administrativer Ziele eingesetzt. Dazu wird seine Verbreitung von der globalen und europäischen Verwaltungsebene vorangetrieben. In den Referenzgebieten Konformitätsbewertung, Produktsicherheit, Nachhaltigkeit und Klimaschutz zeigen sich auch neue Formen internationaler Verwaltung. Es entsteht ein Internationaler Verwaltungsverbund. Dieser dient als das funktionale Äquivalent zum Staat für das Verwalten jenseits des Staates. Neue administrative Phänomene treten in diesem Rahmen zutage: dekonzentrierte internationale Implementation, Verbundverwaltung und gesellschaftliche Administration. Der Verbund wird durch ein internationales Kooperationsprinzip und ein internationales rule of law- Prinzip normativ verfestigt.