Bio

Prof. Dr. CHRISTOS MYLONOPOULOS

Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and International Criminal Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, President of the European and International Criminal Law Institute, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg), Member of the Scientific Council of the Greek Parliament.

1972-1977 : Law Studies at the University of Athens
1977-1980 : Postgraduate Studies at the University of Saabrücken (Germany)
1981: Doctor Juris of the University of Saabrücken (summa cum laude).
1985: Research Fellow at the Institute of Criminal Studies of the University of Munich-Germany (Alexander von Humboldt – Fellowship)
1991-4: Visiting Professor of International and European Criminal Law at the Law School of the University of Munich (after invitation of Professor Dr. h.c. (mult.) Claus Roxin)
Since 1996: Ordinary Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Athens
2013: Co editor of the Festschrift von Hans Heiner Kühne zum 70. Geburtstag, C. F. Müller Verlag, Heidelgerg.
Works of him have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian and Turkish.
Christos Mylonopoulos represented Greece repeatedly before the European Communities and the Council of Europe in issues of Criminal Law. He  participated as invited speaker in many national and international meetings, e.g. Montreal, Washington, Salerno, Budapest, Constantinople, and gave lectures and organized Seminars concerning Criminal Law in Frankfurt (twice), Freiburg (Max Planck Institute for International and Foreign Criminal Law), Munich (Law School), Laxemburg/Vienna (International Academy against Corruption), Law School of the Peking University, Renmin University, College of Criminal Law of the Normal Beijing University etc. He was a member of the Working Group for the International Convention for the Protection of the Financial Interests of the European Communities (known as Convention P.I.F.), member of many legislative Committees and President of three legislative Committees in Greece, among them the Scientific Committee for the elaboration of the New Greek Criminal Code. Furthermore he was a Member of the Supreme Special Court  (two shifts) and  the Supreme Disciplinary Court as well. He introduced the study of International Criminal Law into the Law School of the Athens University and wrote a book about it.

He works also as Attorney before the Supreme Court of Greece (Areios Pagos) and he taught Criminal Law at the National Magistrates School of Greece. He is co-editor of the special Criminal Review: Poinikos Logos, published in Athens, member of the Association Internationale de Droit Pénal, member of the Greek Criminal Law Society, member of the Association of Greek Criminal Lawyers, and member of the International Committee of the Hans-Sigrist Prize, in Bern (Switzerland). He was  external evaluator for the nomination of the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Intenational Criminal Law (Freiburg).

He has written 9 books on criminal law and numerous articles in the field of criminal law, criminal procedure and international criminal law.

Awards and Fellowships

1. Edward Martin Award for Best Doctor Thesis of the year 1981 of the University of Saabrücken.
2. DAAD Fellowship, 1977-1979
3. Alexander von Humboldt- Stiftung Fellowship, 1985-1987
4. Prize of the Union of the Greek Criminal Lawyers (1988).

Publications

He  published several books and works in German, Greek and English Language. The most significant of them are the following:

I. Books
I.1. In German language
1. Komparative und Dispositionsbegriffe im Strafrecht, München 1996, Lang Verlag.
2. Über das Verhältnis zwischen Handlungs- und Erfolgsunwert im Strafrecht, Köln, Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1982.

I.2. In English language
1. Alternative Systems of Crime Control, National, Transnational and International Dimensions, Schriftenreihe des Max-Planck-Instituts für Ausländisches und Internationales Strafrecht, Duncker/Humblot, Berlin 2018 (with Ulrich Sieber, Valsamis Mitsilegas, Emmanouil Billis und Nandor Knust co-eds.)

I.3. In Spanish language
1. Dogmatica penal en un contexto internacional. Estudios z Debates en Derecho Penal No 14, Montevideo-Buenos Aires, εκδόσεις Faira, 2017.

1.4. In Greek language
1. Criminal Law. The General Part, 1st. Ed. Bd I, Athens 2007, 750 pp., Bd II Athens 2008, 400 pp. , 2nd ed. 2020.
2. Criminal Law. The Special Part . 2nd ed. 2006 (760 pp.), 3rd ed. 2016, 904 pp.
3. Offences concerning Documents, Athens 2005, 150 pp.
4. Applications of Criminal Law, Athens 1997.
5. International Criminal Law, 2. ed. Athens 1993, 3rd. ed. 2020.
6. Computers and Criminal Law, Athens 1988.
7. Die Erfolgsqualifizierten Delikte. Dogmatische Grundlegung, Athens 1984, 400 pp.
8. International Criminal Law and Contemporary reality. Proceeds of the 1st International Congress of the European and International Criminal Law Institute, Athens 2017 (ed.).

II. Articles
II.1. In German language
1. „Das Bedürfnis einer allgemeinen Strafrechtstheorie zur Ausgestaltung effektiver und gerechter internationalen Strafnormen“, in: Festschrift für Ulfrid Neumann, C.F. Müller 2017, pp. 669-688.
2. Zur Strafbarkeit der Leugnung historischer Tatsachen, in Kühl-Festschrift, 2014, pp. 553 et seq.
3. Vorsatz als Dispositionsbegriff, in Frisch-Festschrift 2013, pp. 218 et seq.
4. Strafrechtliche Ermittlungen gegen Banken und deren AngestelltenSpring Symposium of the Banking and Capital Market Law Branch (= Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht) of the German Bar Association in Athens 3rd May 2019
5. Zur Möglichkeit einer theoretischen Begründung des plea bargaining, in: Kühne-Festschrift, 2013, p. 259 et seq.
6. Die „Vernunft des rechtstreuen Bürgers“ als Freiwilligkeitskriterium beim Rücktritt vom unbeendeten Versuch, σε: Imme Roxin Festschr. 2012, pp. 165 et seq.
7. Strafrechtsdogmatik in Europa nach dem Vertrag von Lissabon – Zur materiellen Legitimation des Europäischen Strafrechts, ZStW 123 (2011), pp. 633 et seq.
8. H. H. Jescheck und die griechische Strafrechtswissenschaft in: Strafrecht in einer globalen Welt– Internationales Kolloquium zum Gedenken an Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Heinrich Jescheck – Freiburg 2011 p. 129 et seq.
9. Versuchsbeginn und Mittäterschaft, Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht 2011, pp. 462 et seq.
10. Telekommunikationsüberwachung nach Griechischem Strafrecht, Fasikül 2010, pp. 13 et seq. ( in German and turkish translation)
11. Internationalisierung des Strafrechts und Strafrechtdogmatik Legitimationsdefizit und Anarchie als Hauptcharakteristika der Strafrechtsnormen mit internationalem Einschlag, ZStW 121 (2009) Heft 1, pp. 68 et seq.
12. Die Endgültigkeit der Enteigung als Merkmal des Unterschlagungstatbestandes, in: Roxin Festschrift 2001, pp. 917 et seq.
13. Dogmatische Grunderfordernisse eines Allgemeinen Teils aus griechischer Sicht, in: Hirsch (ed.), Krise des Strafrechts und der Kriminalwissenschaften?, Berlin 2001, p. 174 et seq.
14. Das Verhältnis von Vorsatz und Fahrlässigkeit und der Grundsatz in dubio pro reo, ZStW 1987, p. 700 et seq.

 II.2. In English and French

15. Is the possession of the Parthenon Sculptures by the British Museum a criminal offense according to English Law? in: Festschrift f. Ulrich Sieber, 2020, pp. .

17. The Contribution of Fuzzy Logic and Comparative Concepts to the Rational Application of Proportionality in the Narrow Sense, in: Billis/Knust/Rui (eds.), The Principle of Proportionality in Crime Control and Criminal Justice, Hart Publishing 2020, pp. .

18. Bargain Practices and the Fundamental Values of the ECHR, in: Sieber/Mitsilegas/Mylonopoulos/Billis/Knust (eds.), Alternative Systems of Crime Control. National, Transnational and International Dimensions, Schriftenreihe des Max-Planck-Instituts für Ausländisches und Internationales Strafrecht, Duncker/Humblot, Berlin 2018, pp. 89-105.
19. Contemporary Problems οf International Criminal Law, Peking University Law Journal, Volume 3, 2015, pp. 285-287.
20. The Greek legislation against corruption (lecture given on may 16, 2014 in Laxemburg bei Wien).
21. Corporate Criminal Liability and Greek Law, Révue Hellénique de Droit International 2010, p. 471 et seq. (in English).
22. Criminal Protection of the Intellectual property in Greece, in: Protection of International Property through Criminal Law in the Context of Internationalization, The Τhird International Forum of Contemporary Criminal Law, Bangkok, 2009, pp. 145 et seq. (also translated in Chinese ).
23. Computer- related crimes in Greece. Substantive Law aspects in: RHDI 1994, p. 121 et seq. (in English).
24. The Greek Criminal Procedure, in: Christine van den Wyngaert (ed.) in : European Criminal Procedures. 1994, p. 163 et seq. (in English).
25. L’ιnfluence du droit communautaire sur le droit pénal grec, in : La protection juridique des interêts financiers de la Communauté, Bruxelles 1989 p. 251 et seq. (in French).

II.3. In Greek language
1. Issues concerning the attempt according to the new Penal Code, Poinika Chronika 2020, p. 375 et seq.
2. The application of art. 86 of the Constitution (with Prof. Phlippos Spyropoulos , in: www.constitutionalism .gr, 2018.
1. Is extradition to the US permitted in case of crypto currency laundering? Poinika Chronika 2018, pp. 177 et seq.
2. The need of a general theory of criminal Law for the formation of effective and just international criminal rules, Poinika Chronika 2017, pp. 401 et seq.
3. Can causation of death during running of a leisure boat be qualified as a disturbance of public transport security qualified by death result? Poiniki Dikaiosini 2017, pp. 697 et seq.
4. Alternative modes of a trial termination in Germany (Einstellen des Verfahrens, Verständigung) and their importance for the Greek legal order , Poiniki Dikaiosini 2015, pp. 433 et seq.

5. The institution of plea bargaining. Theoretical foundation and practical functioning, Poinka Chronika 2013, pp. 81 et seq.
6. Purchase, possession and cultivation of drugs for own use, Article 29 of Law 4139/2013 on drugs, Poiniki Dikaiosini 2013, pp. 209.
7. Can the ne bis in idem principle be applied if criminal prosecution in Germany was concluded according to para 153 II German Code of Criminal Procedure? Poinika Chronika 2012, vol. 2, p. 406.
8. The European Criminal Law after the Lisbon Treaty. Substantive legitimization of European Criminal Law and the importance of criminal law theory for its formation, Poinika Chronika 2011, pp. 1 et seq. .
9. Duration of detention in view of extradition, Poinika Chronika 2010, pp. 503 et seq.
10. Attempt in co-activity, in: Anna Benakis Festschrift 2008, pp. 385 et seq.
11. European criminal law and the general principles of the criminal law, in: Poinika Chronika 2008, p. 206 et seq.
12. Criminal dogmatic and internationalization of criminal justice Progress or regression? in: Poinika Chronika 2004, p. 265.
13. Report on the bill concerning the European arrest warrant for the Greek Parliament, in: Reports of the Scientific Commision of the Parliament 2004, p. 1 et seq.
14. The endangerment of human rights in the new international environment in: Νomiko Vima 2004, p. 769 et seq.
15. The fraud against the European Communities, in: Poinikos Logos 2004, p. 7 et seq.
16. Eventual intention and fuzzy logic. An attempt of dispositional analysis, in: Poinikos Logos 2003, p. 451 et seq.
17. The European Warrant of Arrest : Poinikos Logos 2003, p. 2259 et seq.
18. The Extradition Convention between the USA and the European Union in: Poinikos Logos 2003.
19. Theory, practice and legal ethics, in: Poinikos Logos 2002, p. 87 et seq.
20. Act, omission and acceptance as elements of the actus reus of the extortion in: Poinikos Logos 2001, p. 241 et seq.
21. The ne bis in idem principle and article 13 para 7 of the international treaty of human and political rights, in: Poinikos Logos 2001, p. 1157 et seq.
22. Τ.Ι.R convention and attempt of smuggling in: Baumann – Spinellis (ed), Mangakis – Fest 1999, p. 361 et seq.
23. Robbery against the public sector and fraud committed by omission . Poinika Chronika 1997, p. 1105 et seq.
24. Foreign criminal decision and ne bis in idem principle, in: Poinika Chronika 1996, p. 727 et seq.
25. Report on the bill concerning the money laundering for the Greek Parliament, 1995, in: reports of the scientific Commission of Parliament, p. 227.
26. The contribution of the decision theory to the assessment of the pecuniary damage in criminal law, in: Poinika Chronika 1994, p. 705 et seq.
27. The criminal protection of the environment in Greek Criminal Law in: Law and Nature 1994, p. 423 et seq.
28. The motivation of the criminal decision by the court and the criminal in: Poinika Chronika 1994, p. 433 et seq.
29. Dispositional concepts and criminal law, in: Yperaspisi 1993, p. 243 ff
30. The principal of speciality in extradition. Poinika Chronika 1993, p.117 et seq.
31. The warding of the criminal rule and the true intention of the historical legislator, in: Poinika Chronika 1993, p. 353 et seq.
32. The summoning of the president of the Polytecnique School in: Yperaspisi 1992, p. 439 et seq.
33. The influence of community law in Greek criminal law. Yperaspisi 1991, p. 1061et seq.
34. Embezzlement as co-punished post offence, in: Poinika Chronika 1989, p. 284 et seq.
35. Facts and personal assessments as objects of the testimony in the criminal trial. in: Poinika Chronika 1989 , p. 673 et seq.
36. The possibility of legal consequences as element of the actus reus of forgery, in: Poinika Chronika 1989, p. 268 et seq.
37. The criminal protection of software in greek criminal law, in: Poinika Chronika 1988, p. 3 et seq.
38. The place of the Commission of the offence as a problem of the international Criminal Law, in: Νomiko Vima 1988, p. 285 et seq.
39. The problem of the victims contributory fault in the fraud, in: Poinika Chronika 1986, p. 561.
40. On the problem of the subjective elements of justification, in: Poinika Chronika 1978, p. 561 et seq.