Vassiliki Christou is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens since 2020. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Heidelberg Law School with honours, distinction and with a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Furthermore, she completed her postgraduate studies in Philosophy of Law and her undergraduate studies at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with honours and distinction. She has also visited as a researcher Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge, Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and the Law School of Humboldt University in Berlin. Vassiliki Christou has published three books, of which the first one in German published by NOMOS, on hate speech (2006), and the other two in Greek on the subject of ratification and adoption of administrative acts by parliamentary law (2010, Sakkoula ed.) and the right to data protection (2017, Sakkoula ed.). In addition, he has translated into Greek works of the German Professor and Judge of the Federal Court of Germany Ernst Wolfgang Böckenförde and of the American Professor and philosopher Martha Nussbaum, writing the introduction to their respective publications (2010 and 2020 respectively, Papazisis ed.). Her research fields are in the area of constitutional law and rights, constitutional theory and history, and she has also worked on comparative public law. Her recent research interests concern the principle of democracy and representative democracy, as well as the organisation of powers more broadly.

Indicative recent publications:

1. «Digitalization and the rise of a ‘private’ democracy? A defence for party representation» in Digital Technologies and the Stakes for Representative Democracy, Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, Athens, 2023, pp. 29-42.
2. «Remote togetherness. Digital human activities in the pandemic and related challenges to data privacy, equality, and democracy in Greece», Legal Policy & Pandemics. The Journal of the Global Pandemic Network – LPPJ, 2022, Vol. 2, Issue 1, ISSN 2785-2628