Dr Anna Tsiftsoglou holds a PhD in Law (honors) from the University of Athens, Greece. She is also a practicing lawyer specialized in public law. Anna pursued graduate law studies at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. (LL.M.), and held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University, U.S.A. (Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies), the London School of Economics, U.K. (LSE- Hellenic Observatory) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece School of Law. She is also the recipient of a visiting research fellowship by the Academy of Finland, a PhD research grant co-funded by the European Social Fund and a European Commission legal traineeship scholarship. Dr Tsiftsoglou has taught public and European law at undergraduate and graduate levels inter alia at the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) headquarters in Athens, the National School of Judiciary in Thessaloniki and since 2020 she has been an adjunct professor – collaborating scientific staff (S.E.P.) at the Hellenic Open University (EAP). Her scientific work includes invited talks and participation in major national and international conferences and events, as well as her books “Public Security and Privacy” (Sakkoulas, 2015), “Democracy after Covid” (Springer, 2022) (co-ed. with K.Chrysogonos) and “The Judge in Crisis” (Sakkoulas, 2026, forthcoming).
Can Party Bans be allowed in Greece? A rather neglected provision, that of article 29.1 of the Greek Constitution, concerning the right to found and join political parties, has been in vogue during the past decade in Greece. The original cause of such revival was the infamous case of the far-right Golden Dawn party … →
