Vassilios skouris biography examples

Greek judge

Vassilios Skouris (Greek: Βασίλειος Σκουρής; born 6 March 1948) is a Greek judge who was President of the European Court of Justice from 2003 to 2015.

A European legal scholar, he served briefly in the government of Greece as Minister of the Interior in 1989 and again in 1996. He is professor at the Law School of the Aristotle University and at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.^[1]

Early years and education

Skouris was born on 6 March 1948 in Thessaloniki, Greece.^[2]

He graduated with a degree in law from the Free University of Berlin in 1970, and was subsequently awarded doctorate in constitutional and administrative law at the University of Hamburg in 1973.^[3] In 1978 he was a professor of Public Law at Bielefeld University and in 1982 a professor of Public Law at the University of Thessaloniki.^[4] During the period of 1972 to 1977 he was lecturing law at the University of Hamburg.^[5]