Prof. Epaminondas Spiliotopoulos, Member of the Academy of Athens, Professor Emeritus of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, gave a lecture on “The Future of Administrative Law in Greece” as the guest speaker of the 9th John Anastopoulos International Lecture on June 3, 2011, at the EPLO Headquarters in Athens.
The lecture began with welcoming speeches by the Director of the European Public Law Organization, Professor Spyridon Flogaitis, and Professor Theodore Fortsakis, President of the Faculty of Law, National & Capodistrian University of Athens, and greetings by the Minister of Regional Development and Competitiveness, Mr. Dinos Rovlias, and the former Minister of Interior of Greece, Professor Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
The event, at which the widow of John Anastopoulos Mrs. Françoise Anastopoulou, was present, was attended by academics, judges, Ambassadors, rectors, professors, politicians, lawyers and many of the students of Prof. Spiliotopoulos.
The EPLO, together with the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens, launched the John Anastopoulos International Lecture Series in the memory of the late Professor John Anastopoulos in 1998 with Professor Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister and former Minister of Interior of Italy, as the first guest speaker.
Professor Anastopoulos (1942-1997), a distinguished individual of the political and academic world of Greece, was a full Professor of Public Law at the University of Athens and a visiting Professor at the University of Paris II, the Aix-en-Provence University and the Strasbourg University, while he served as Secretary General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Secretary General of the Center of International and European Law of Thessaloniki, as well as Advisor to the Ministry of Coordination during the negotiations on Greece’s accession to the European Community on the legal and institutional aspects. In 1991 Professor Anastopoulos was awarded the distinction of Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur of the French Republic.
Past speakers of the series include:
The late Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank, Ibrahim Shihata, the former President of the European Court of Human Rights, Mr. Jean-Paul Costa, the President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Thailand, Mr. Ackaratorn Chularat, the former Congressman of the US Congress and former President of New York University, Mr. John Brademas, and Professor Toma Birmontiene, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania.
