Professor Achilles Skordas has taught international law and migration law at the Universities of Athens, Bristol, Copenhagen and Frankfurt-am-Main. He is now Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and his current research focuses on international law and geopolitics. He has widely published in the area of international law and migration law and co-edited the following books: Koutrakos/Skordas (eds), The Law and Practice of Piracy at Sea – European and International Perspectives, Bloomsbury, 2014; Skordas/Halmai/Mardikian (eds), Economic Constitutionalism in a Turbulent World, Elgar Publ., forthcoming 2023; Skordas/Mardikian (eds), Research Handbook on the International Court of Justice, Elgar Publ., forthcoming 2023. He has also commented Articles 5 and 7 of the Refugee Convention in the Zimmermann Commentary on the 1951 Convention, Oxford University Press, 2011 (2nd edition forthcoming) and he has commented the Temporary Protection Directive in Thym/Hailbronner (eds), EU Immigration and Asylum Law – Article-by-Article Commentary, Beck/Hart/Nomos, 3rd edition, 2022. Achilles is a Member of the Academic Network Odysseus on Migration and Asylum Law in Europe and served as an advisor with the Greek Parliament on international legal affairs, including on migration.

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