Vagelis Papakonstantinou
SCIENTIST
Department of Law Science Technology & Society
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Belgium
Biography
Vagelis Papakonstantinou is a practicing attorney in Athens, Greece, where he has co-founded and runs MPlegal law firm, and a senior researcher at VUB LSTS. Since 2016 he is serving as a member (alternate) of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority. He has taught at the University of Patras and the University of the Aegean, and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Copyright Organisation (for two terms). Vagelis Papakonstantinou frequently consults, and represents, the Greek government on all matters found within his fields of expertise.
Research Interest
Copyright individual rights Data Privacy
Publications
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Paul de Hert/Vagelis Papakonstantinou, The EDPS as a unique stakeholder in the European data protection landscape, fulfilling the explicit and non-explicit expectations, in Data Protection anno 2014: How to Restore Trust? Contributions in honour of Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor (2004-2014), Intersentia, 2014,
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Paul de Hert/Vagelis Papakonstantinou, Google Spain: Addressing Critiques and Misunderstandings One Year Later, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Vol. 22, Issue 4 (2015),
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Paul de Hert/Vagelis Papakonstantinou, The EU institutions’ battle over data processing vs individual rights, in Policy Change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: How EU institutions matter, editors F Trauner/A Ripoll Servent, Routledge, 2015,
