Vasiliki Christou

graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens (2001) and earned her doctorate from the University of Heidelberg (2006) with a dissertation on the constitutional dimensions of legal approaches to hate speech in Germany, the USA, and Greece. She visited as a researcher the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2007, 2012), as well as Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (2018). In 2019, she was elected assistant professor of constitutional law at the Law School of the UOA. Her main research interests include freedom of expression, personal data, privacy and confidentiality, the separation of powers, representative democracy and referendums, as well as modern political philosophy, with an emphasis on the works of John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum.

Manolis Koumas graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens in 2002. He completed his postgraduate studies in the same department and at the London School of Economics. In 2008, he earned his doctorate in History from the UOA. He has taught at Panteion University, the University of Cyprus, the University of the Peloponnese, the Hellenic Open University, and the Open University of Cyprus. From 2014 to 2021, he taught in the International Baccalaureate program at Psychico College. In 2021, he was elected assistant professor of History of International Relations (19th-20th centuries) at the Department of History and Archaeology of the UOA. His research interests include Greek foreign policy, perceptions of the international system, Greece's policy in the Middle East, and the history of the League of Nations.