Vouleftiko - Lecture by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic, June 8th 2018
Within the Events Series 2018 entitled "Leadership and Humanitarian Values", which are under the auspices of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS GR) based in Nafplio, presents a lecture by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos, entitled: "The crisis of the rule of law as a crisis of democratic legitimacy of Leadership" on Friday, June 8, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. The lecture will be delivered at the Vouleftiko Hall in Nafplio, with the support of the Municipality of Nafplio and the Municipal Organization of Culture, Environment, Sports and Tourism (D.O.P.P.A.T.)
Synopsis of the lecture
A fundamental principle of the rule-governed state is that through complete rules of law – i.e., rules whose infringement incurs specific sanctions – the competence of every type of state organ is delimited, especially in the case of the bodies of the executive power. On the one hand, the phenomenon of “deregulation” – i.e., the drastic reduction of the field of social and economic reality, which was traditionally governed by rules of law of state origin – implies that the competence of state organs loses much of its regulatory power. On the other hand, this leads to a profound diminution of the democratic legitimacy of state institutions, especially of those at the top of the hierarchy.
Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos’s brief resume
Prokopios Pavlopoulos was born in Kalamata in 1950, where he graduated from high school. He graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens in 1973 and continued his postgraduate studies in Paris. In 1977, he was awarded a doctorate (Doctorat d’ État) at Paris II, where he later taught as Visiting Professor (1986). In 1982 he was appointed Lecturer at the Law School of the University of Athens and after serving as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, he was elected Professor of the same School in 1989. His extensive publications comprise books, papers and articles, including “La directive en droit administratif”, Paris, 1978; “The Constitutional Safeguard of the Μotion for Annulment: A Modern View of the Rule of Law”, 1982; “Lessons in Administrative Science”, 1983; “The Civil Liability of the State”, vol. I, 1986, vol. II, 1989; “Guarantees of the right to judicial protection in European Community Law”, 1993; “The Contract for the Execution of Public Works”, 1997; “Printed Words: Articles 1987-2003”, 2003; the collective work (in collaboration with Professors A. Gerontas, S. Lytra, Gl. Siouti and S. Flogaiti) “Administrative Law”, 2nd edition, 2010; “The Revision of the Constitution – In the light of Parliamentary Experience”, 2010; “The Twilight of Political Leaders: Cause or Effect of the Economic Crisis?”, 2011, etc. In the sphere of politics, in 1974-1975 he was Secretary to the first (provisional) President of the Hellenic Republic, Michail Stasinopoulos. He was a member of the coalition government under X. Zolotas (1989-1990), serving as Deputy Minister of the Presidency and Spokesman. From 1990 to 1995 he was Chief Legal Counsel to the President of the Hellenic Republic, Konstantinos Karamanlis. Between 1995 and 1996 he served as the Spokesman for the New Democracy Party. In 1996 he was elected State Deputy with the New Democracy Party, and until 2000 he was Deputy Head of Public Administration, Public Order, and Justice. Since 2000 he has continuously been elected Member of Parliament, representing the 1st Athens constituency. Between 2000-2004 he served as the Parliamentary Spokesman for the New Democracy Party. Between 2004 and 2009 he was Minister of the Interior in the two consecutive terms of the government of K. Karamanlis.
Starting time
19:00
End of entry 18:50
Entrance
Free
Information
Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University
Philhellene Square and King Otto Street, 211 00 Nafplion
Τ +30 27520 47030, F +30 27520 47039, mail: chsnafplion@chs.harvard.edu
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The Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS GR) is a Harvard international Center that unites the humanistic pursuits of the CHS in Washington D.C. with the homeland of Hellenism.
The Center’s main mission is to support and promote the Hellenic civilization, and to bring together scholars studying these subjects, while it functions as a base of operations for scholars, students and researchers from Harvard as well as other academic institutions from the U.S., Greece, and elsewhere.
