Date:
Location:
Title:
The crisis of the rule of law as a crisis of democratic legitimacy of Leadership
Lecturer:
H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos
Language:
Greek
With the support of:
Municipality of Nafplio – Municipal Organization of Culture, Environment, Sports and Tourism (DOPPAT)
Synopsis of the lecture:
A fundamental principle of the rule-governed state is that through complete rules of law – i.e., rules whose infringement incurs specific sanctions – the competence of every type of state organ is delimited, especially in the case of the bodies of the executive power. On the one hand, the phenomenon of “deregulation” – i.e., the drastic reduction of the field of social and economic reality, which was traditionally governed by rules of law of state origin – implies that the competence of state organs loses much of its regulatory power. On the other hand, this leads to a profound diminution of the democratic legitimacy of state institutions, especially of those at the top of the hierarchy.
Short bio of the lecturer:
Prokopiοs Pavlopoulos was born in Kalamata in 1950, where he graduated from high school. He graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens in 1973 and continued his postgraduate studies in Paris. In 1977, he was awarded a doctorate (Doctorat d’ État) at Paris II, where he later taught as Visiting Professor (1986). In 1982 he was appointed Lecturer at the Law School of the University of Athens and after serving as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, he was elected Professor of the same School in 1989. His extensive publications comprise books, papers and articles, including “La directive en droit administratif”, Paris, 1978; “The Constitutional Safeguard of the Μotion for Annulment: A Modern View of the Rule of Law”, 1982; “Lessons in Administrative Science”, 1983; “The Civil Liability of the State”, vol. I, 1986, vol. II, 1989; “Guarantees of the right to judicial protection in European Community Law”, 1993; “The Contract for the Execution of Public Works”, 1997; “Printed Words: Articles 1987-2003”, 2003; the collective work (in collaboration with Professors A. Gerontas, S. Lytra, Gl. Siouti and S. Flogaiti) “Administrative Law”, 2nd edition, 2010; “The Revision of the Constitution – In the light of Parliamentary Experience”, 2010; “The Twilight of Political Leaders: Cause or Effect of the Economic Crisis?”, 2011, etc. In the sphere of politics, in 1974-1975 he was Secretary to the first (provisional) President of the Hellenic Republic, Michail Stasinopoulos. He was a member of the coalition government under X. Zolotas (1989-1990), serving as Deputy Minister of the Presidency and Spokesman. From 1990 to 1995 he was Chief Legal Counsel to the President of the Hellenic Republic, Constantinos Karamanlis. Between 1995 and 1996 he served as the Spokesman for the New Democracy Party. In 1996 he was elected State Deputy with the New Democracy Party, and until 2000 he was Deputy Head of Public Administration, Public Order, and Justice. Since 2000 he has continuously been elected Member of Parliament, representing the 1st Athens constituency. Between 2000-2004 he served as the Parliamentary Spokesman for the New Democracy Party. Between 2004 and 2009 he was Minister of the Interior in the two consecutive terms of the government of K. Karamanlis.
Events Series 2018 is implemented under the auspices of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos.
