Yannis Ktistakis is professor of Public International Law at the Demokritus University of Thrace, and at the faculty of Political Science and International Relations, at the Boğaziçi University. He holds the title of Supreme Court Attorney at Law and he practices in the areas of public (international and domestic) law and human rights.
He has defended successfully 47 cases before the European Court of Human Rights (Chamber and Grand Chamber). Since 2009 he is the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s legal advisor. He studied law at the University of Thrace and continued his postgraduate studies at the University of Strasbourg-Robert Schumann and at the European Academy of Theory of Law in Brussels in the field of International Law, Political Science and Theory of Law.
In 2006 he was elected Lecturer of Public International Law at the Law Faculty of Thrace University. He teaches human rights in the Political Science’s Faculty of Athens University and in the academic year 2008-2009 he has taught the law of international organizations in the Political Science’s Faculty of the University of Bogazici (Istanbul). He has published books, articles and comments of jurisprudence in Greek, English, and French.