Lina Papadopoulou

Lina Papadopoulou is Professor of Constitutional Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holder of a Jean Monnet Chair for European Constitutional Law and Culture. She studied Law (Bachelor’s degree from AUTh in 1993 and LLM from Trier, Germany, in 1994) and Political Theory (MSc from the London School of Economics in 1999), and completed her PhD in European Constitutional Law in Hanover, on a Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung scholarship (1996-98).

Within the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, she is deputy director of the Laboratory for the Research of Medical Law and Bioethics. She was also the academic co-ordinator of the AUTh Jean Monnet Center of Excellence on “European Constitutionalism and Religion(s)” (2018-2022), and President of the European Consortium for Church and State Research (2020-22).

Her scientific interests and publications mainly concern Greek, comparative, and European constitutional law (democracy and political parties, relation between national and European law), fundamental rights (equality and prohibition of negative discrimination, family life), religion and law (religious freedom), bioethics and rights (assisted reproduction and euthanasia).