Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos

Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos will be joining the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights as a Research Visitor for Hilary and Trinity 2025 terms. He will be working on his next book that undertakes a contextual study of populism and human rights in the UK, exploring how we can more effectively secure the ECHR from future populist challenges.

Giannoulopoulos holds the Inaugural Chair in Law and is the Head of the Department of Law at Goldsmiths University of London, where he designed the undergraduate and postgraduate law programmes and the Department of Law with an emphasis on cosmopolitan law, human rights, social justice, experiential learning and learning beyond the classroom, in legal, political and cultural London. Giannoulopoulos is an Academic Bencher at the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and an Associate Tenant at Garden Court Chambers. He is a Visiting Professor at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens since 2021 and was recently appointed a Global Law Professor at the Faculty of Law and Criminology at the University of Leuven for the academic year 2024-25. In 2023-24, he was a Visiting Professor at the Institut de sciences criminelles at the Université de Poitiers.

Giannoulopoulos has internationally leading expertise in how human rights norms are applied in domestic criminal justice systems. In recent years, he has developed a strong interest in the impact of Euroscepticism, populism and Brexit on human rights. He was the founder and director of the academic thinktank, Britain in Europe (between 2016 and 2020) and founded and directed (2017-2020) the Knowing Our Rights research/public engagement project (funded by the Open Society Foundations). He was a co-lead in the Human Rights in Action project (2021) and is a trustee of the human rights charity EachOther (since October 2022).

Giannoulopoulos’ work on Brexit and European human rights has featured in key news outlets including the Guardian, the Times, the Financial Times, Politico, the Prospect magazine, LBC, La Libération, Euronews, France 24, Le Parisien, while he regularly appears on national radio and television in Greece. He also writes a column for the main broadsheet in Greece (Ta Nea) providing commentary on current legal, political and cultural developments in the UK.

Giannoulopoulos’ latest book (with Prof Yvonne McDermott) Judicial Independence Under Threat (OUP, 2022) was published in the ‘Proceedings of the British Academy’ series and explores challenges to judicial independence in their legal, philosophical, political and historical contexts.