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Cosmopolitan legal education: From Irnerius and the Westphalian paradigm to the modern law school (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Platsas, A. E. (2022). Cosmopolitan legal education: From Irnerius and the Westphalian paradigm to the modern law school. In The European Conference on Education 2022: Official Conference Proceedings (295–304). https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1162.2022.26

The law school has not always been one that would be predominantly engaged with national legal matter. The subject of law, as a field of learning, has for a number of centuries been the toy of national educational systems, because law has been the to... Read More about Cosmopolitan legal education: From Irnerius and the Westphalian paradigm to the modern law school.

Comparing and contrasting the EU and the US approach in competition law: So close but so far (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Platsas, A. E. (2022). Comparing and contrasting the EU and the US approach in competition law: So close but so far. In V. Šmejkal (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference held in Prague on January 24-25, 2022 (481-493)

It is of great academic interest that the two main representatives of the Western world, the EU and the USA, have developed antitrust and competition law approaches and policies that have certain significant similarities but also quite a few crucial... Read More about Comparing and contrasting the EU and the US approach in competition law: So close but so far.

European legal responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Post-apocalyptic at best (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Platsas, A. E. (2021, December). European legal responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Post-apocalyptic at best. Presented at ephemera and AlterEcos Workshop 2021, Copenhagen, Denmark

The purpose of this paper is to assess, on an indicative basis, European legal responses to the pandemic. Such responses have been generally slow and not always well-calculated. At other times, responses were clearly spasmodic and uncoordinated. O... Read More about European legal responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Post-apocalyptic at best.

A comparison of online pedagogic guidelines: Cambridge vs Harvard (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Platsas, A. E. (2021, July). A comparison of online pedagogic guidelines: Cambridge vs Harvard. Presented at Education and Student Experience Conference 2021, Brighton, UK

The paper offers a direct comparison of the latest online pedagogic guidelines from the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. As such, it compares Harvard's Best Practice: Online Pedagogy with the relevant guidelines from Cambridge's Centr... Read More about A comparison of online pedagogic guidelines: Cambridge vs Harvard.

A world of pedagogic principles: The idea of principles in academic education (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Platsas, A. E. (2021, July). A world of pedagogic principles: The idea of principles in academic education. Presented at 11th International Conference the Future of Education, Florence, Italy

Principles are by definition abstract notions and, as such, their precise identification may be an onerous task, especially when it comes to them acting as indicators of the inherent pedagogic value of proposed or applied educational models and appro... Read More about A world of pedagogic principles: The idea of principles in academic education.

A world of pedagogic principles: The idea of principles in academic pedagogy (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Platsas, A. E. (2021). A world of pedagogic principles: The idea of principles in academic pedagogy. In The Future of Education 11th Edition 2021 (18-23)

Principles are by definition abstract notions and, as such, their precise identification may be an onerous task, especially when it comes to them acting as indicators of the inherent pedagogic value of proposed or applied educational models and appro... Read More about A world of pedagogic principles: The idea of principles in academic pedagogy.

At the crossroads of law and ideology: The ideology of law as a reflection of social ontology? (2017)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2017). At the crossroads of law and ideology: The ideology of law as a reflection of social ontology?. Wroclaw Review of Law, Administration and Economics, 7(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1515/wrlae-2018-0013

The paper examines the link between ideology in law and social ontology. Whereas academic enquiries have thus far mainly concentrated on the link between law per se and social reality, the question of the relationship of the ideology of law and socia... Read More about At the crossroads of law and ideology: The ideology of law as a reflection of social ontology?.

The Harmonisation of National Legal Systems: Strategic Models and Factors (2017)
Book
Platsas, A. E. (2017). The Harmonisation of National Legal Systems: Strategic Models and Factors. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433299

This book offers a novel perspective on the leading concept of harmonisation, advocating the mutual benefits and practical utility of harmonised law. Theoretical models and factors for harmonisation are explored in detail. The author acknowledges a r... Read More about The Harmonisation of National Legal Systems: Strategic Models and Factors.

Law as an enabling device (2017)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2017). Law as an enabling device. International Journal of Law and Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, 3(2), 25-33

To many, law may be perceived as nothing more than a restrictive device. To the legal scholar, however, law may be perceived as an enabling device, even where it restricts. Nonetheless, it would not be appropriate to maintain that every restrictive n... Read More about Law as an enabling device.

Law as an enabling device (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Platsas, A. E. (2017). Law as an enabling device. In International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Science Studies ICISSS 2017 (Boston) Conference Poceedings 24th-26th April 2017 (35-43)

To many, law may be perceived as nothing more than a restrictive device. To the legal scholar, however, law may be perceived as an enabling device, even where it restricts. Nonetheless, it would not be appropriate to maintain that every restrictive n... Read More about Law as an enabling device.

The Cambridge handbook of human dignity: Interdisciplinary perspectives (2017)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2017). The Cambridge handbook of human dignity: Interdisciplinary perspectives. International Journal of Human Rights, 21(5), 650-651. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2017.1298090

The academic examination of the concept of dignity in the theoretical disciplines is certainly one which has not been as thorough as one may have anticipated. Considering the concept’s centrality for human existence, it would seem that the exploratio... Read More about The Cambridge handbook of human dignity: Interdisciplinary perspectives.

A cosmopolitan ethos for our future lawyers (2015)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2015). A cosmopolitan ethos for our future lawyers. Law Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 1, 150-168

This article advocates the strengthening of the spirit of cosmopolitanism in modern legal education. In contrast to the epistemic environment of predominantly domestic and nation-oriented discourses across law schools and faculties around the world,... Read More about A cosmopolitan ethos for our future lawyers.

Law in the spirit of our age: Between modernism and post-modernism? (2015)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2015). Law in the spirit of our age: Between modernism and post-modernism?. Juridiskā Zinātne, 8, 198-213

The paper examines the epistemic position of the subject of law vis-à-vis modernity, postmodernity and the related themes of modernism and postmodernism, taking Western jurisprudence as the analytical paradigm. Western jurisprudence is given a wider... Read More about Law in the spirit of our age: Between modernism and post-modernism?.

Comparative human rights law: A comparative overview of ECHR v ACHR v ACHPR (2014)
Book Chapter
Platsas, A. E. (2014). Comparative human rights law: A comparative overview of ECHR v ACHR v ACHPR. In Essays on Human Rights: A Celebration of the Life of Dr Janusz Kochanowski (321-345). Ius et Lex Foundation

This paper offers a direct comparison between the three leading regional instruments of human rights protection in the world, namely the European Convention on Human Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights and the African Charter on Peoples”... Read More about Comparative human rights law: A comparative overview of ECHR v ACHR v ACHPR.

The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note (2013)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2013). The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note. Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice, 2013(2), 333-337

The Rule of Law as a concept in contemporary Europe is not one which has the exact same connotations as the connotations which the concept used to have decades ago. It grew to become a significantly wider concept than traditionally perceived. Its val... Read More about The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note.

The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Platsas, A. E. (2013). The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note.

The Rule of Law as a concept in contemporary Europe is not one which has the exact same connotations as the connotations which the concept used to have decades ago. It grew to become a significantly wider concept than traditionally perceived. Its v... Read More about The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note.