ELIAS KASTANAS

Graduate of the Faculty of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Ph.D., Faculty of Law, University of Geneva; Senior Legal Counselor, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic. Among his main tasks are the drafting of legal opinions on public international law issues, including international human rights law; the drafting, and participation in the presentation, of Greece’s national reports submitted to international human rights bodies; the participation in meetings of the United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, in intergovernmental negotiations of international human rights instruments, as well as in committees, working groups and meetings of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the OSCE. He is the author of monographs, articles and chapters in collective works, including:
-« Unité et diversité: notions autonomes et marge d’appréciation des Etats dans la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme», Editions Bruylant, Bruxelles, 1996 (in French) ;
-Contribution to the collective volume: L.-A. Sicilianos (ed.), “The European Convention of Human Rights. Commentary article-by-article”, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2nd Edition, Athens, 2017 (in Greek).
He also participates in colloquia and seminars in the field of international human rights law.

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