EVLAMPIA TSOLAKI

Evlampia Tsolaki (linkedin: Evlampia Tsolaki 1st)

-Attorney at law qualified at the Thessaloniki Bar Association

-Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

-LL.M. in Transnational and European Commercial Law, Mediation, Arbitration and Energy Law, School of Economics, Business Administration & Legal Studies of International Hellenic University (IHU, Thessaloniki)

-LL.M. in Civil, Civil Procedural and Labour Law at the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Articles published at LegalPost.eu

The partim occupation of business’ premises in strike through the lens of a recent judgment of the German Federal Labour Court

Anti-discrimination Directive on the occasion of the ECJ’s judgment of 10th February 2022

The horizontal effect of Directives 

The legal basis of measures adopted by the Eurosystem to deal with sovereign debt-crisis in the Europe

Basic Attributes of Transnational Law and CISG

The Paradigm of Hellenic Civil Code

Questions upon confidentiality in international arbitration

The right to disconnect: EU lost in translation?

The principle of the most favourable rule as a basic principle of Greek Labour Law

The concept of worker

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