CV of Georges VALLINDAS, PhD & LLM in EU Law

Working experience

Since 2013
Référendaire / Law Clerck at the Court of justice of the European Union, at the Office of Judge Prof. Siniša RODIN.

President, European Law Moot Court Society, organising association of the most important moot court competition in EU Law, supported by the CJEU since 1992.

2008-2013
Référendaire / Law Clerck at the General Court of the European Union (Luxembourg), at the Office of Judge Santiago SOLDEVILA FRAGOSO.

2008
Traineeship at the Office of the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg), Judge Prof. Vassilios SKOURIS.

2005 - 2008
Teaching and Research Attaché (ATER)
Aix en Provence Faculty of law, Aix - Marseille University,.
CERIC Center for Studies & Research in International & European Law, CNRS UMR XXXX.

2002 - 2005
Teaching & Research Assistant (Allocataire de recherches & Moniteur de l'Enseignement supérieur), 
Aix en Provence Faculty of law, Aix - Marseille University, CERIC.

Summer 1998 & 1999
Internship at an Athenian Law Firm,
Case law research & draft submissions in two cases related to private international law & procedural rights protection.

Teaching Activities


Since 2016-2017
Lyon III University, LLM in European & International Business Law

Professor of EU Constitutional & Institutional Law (18h)

February 2018
Thessaloniki Aristote University, LLM in EU Law

2h Conference on the internal decision making procedure of the CJEU

January 2018
Athens NK University, LLM in EU Law

2h Conference on the CJEU's Rules of procedure
2h Conference on Recent EU Competition Case law

November 2017
Aix en Provence Faculty of Law, Aix-Marseille University

Grands Témoins 2h Conference: An internal & actual analysis of the CJEU functionning

June 2017
The Hague University of Applied Sciences,

Conference on Health & recent CJEU Case Law 

July 2016 & 2017
Maastricht University, Faculty of Law
Septfontaines Summer School of EU Law

The Life of a Case at the CJEU

Spanish Competition Authority Congress,
Competition Sanctions at the CJEU, published.

2015
Madrid San Pablo CEU University,
Recents developments at the CJEU

2014
Portuguese School of Judges
Competition Law Seminar on decentralized application of articles 101 & 102 TFEU

Harvard Law School
EU Law Association Conference

2009
Mises Institute Conference, Italy
EU Competition Law & Economics theory

Since 2008
at the Court of Justice of the European Union
during study visits of Academic & Judicial Groups (eg Greek School of Judges, Judicial & Administrative Sections, Members of the Chinese Bar, Thailand's Supreme Administrative Court, LLMs etc...)
Conferences on the role & functionning of the Court & the General Court in EU's Legal Order, Rules of Procedure, Recent Case law on Digital law, Competition law, Public procurement, social rights, access to documents etc...


2007-2008

Lectures for the 'Master degree in EU law' at the European Institute of Public Administration, European Centre for Judges and Lawyers, Luxembourg.

  • 'The EU Judicial System and Legal Remedies'
  • ' The protection of fundamental rights in the EU's Legal Order'

At the Aix en Provence Faculty of Law

  • 'EU Litigation', in Master I "Business law", with Professor Jean VERGES.
  • 'Public economic law', in Master I "Public Law", with Professor Jean-Yves CHÉROT.
  • Member of the team of Aurélie DUFFY, senior lecturer at the University Paris II, during her 24-hour Agregation Lecture, in Paris 5-6 May, 2008 (Subject in EU & European law: solidarity).

2006 - 2007

  • Team Coach of Aix en Provence, the ' Master I international and European law', participating in the European Law Moot Court competition, winners of the Zagreb Regional Final  (Croatia, 8-11 February 2007). In presence of Columbia university, Georgetown (United States), Bayreuth (Germany), Leiden, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Lucerne (Switzerland), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). Qualified for the European final at the Luxembourg on 16 March 2007, against Harvard University and the College of Europe in Bruges. (Intensive work on the case law of the Court of justice and the Court of first instance of the European communities, Supervising of written submissions request/defense and preparation to oral pleadings). European Award for Best Commission Agent after the Final decided by 11 Judges of the EU Court of Justice.
  • Public economic law, in Master I "Public Law", with Professor Jean-Yves CHEROT.
  • Fundamental freedoms Law (constitutional, conventional and EU Human Rights Protection), in Licence III, with Professor Guy SCOFFONI.
  • EU Litigation, in Master I "International and European law", with Professor Jean VERGES.
  • EU Institutional Law, in license II, with Professor Jean-Yves CHEROT.
  • Tutoring internship reports of 6 students, in Public law  Master I.

2005 - 2006

  • Coach of the Aix en Provence Team, of ' Master I International law and European ', participating in the international competition European Law Moot Court, finalists at the regional stage of Ljubljana. (Slovenia, 2-5 February 2006).
  • Public economic law, in Master I "Public Law", with Professor Jean-Yves CHEROT.
  • Fundamental freedoms Law (constitutional, conventional and EU Human Rights Protection), in Licence III, with Professor Guy SCOFFONI.
  • EU Litigation, in Master I "International and European law", with Professor Jean VERGES.
  • EU Institutional Law, in license II, with Professor Jean-Yves CHEROT.
  • Tutoring of reports of 8 students, under Master I law.
  • Member of the team of Didier RIBES, today an Professor and researcher at the Institut Louis FAVOREU (GERJC) during his 24 hour of the contest of aggregation, Paris on 25 and 26 April 2006.


2004 - 2005

  • Fundamental freedoms Law (constitutional, conventional and EU Human Rights Protection), in Licence III, with professors André BALDOUS and Guy SCOFFONI
  • EU Institutional Law, in license II, with Professor Jean-Yves CHEROT.
  • EU Internal Market Law,  license III, with Frédéric BUY
  • Coach of the team of ' Master I international and European law', participating in international competition European law Moot Court, qualified at the regional stage in Istanbul, finalists and second best representative of the Commission (Turkey, 10-13 February 2005)
  • 5 students Tutoring internship reports, in the context of the Master I in Public law (related to the Administrative Tribunal of Marseille, la Communauté urbaine de Marseille...)
  • Organization of the study visits of the Master II Research (LLM) in EU Law and of the Master II in legal European engineering, at the European institutions, Luxembourg and Brussels from 28 February to 5 March 2005 (EUCJ, EIB, Commission, Parliament, libraries).

2003 - 2004

  • Coach of the 'master of international and European law', participating in the international competition Community law European law Moot Court, qualified at the regional stage of Vilnius (Lithuania, 25-28 February 2004)
  • Introduction to law, legal philosophy & methodology, in 1st year DEUG, with Professor Joseph PINI.
  • Member of the team of Nathalie JACQUINOT, now a Professor associate at the University of Toulouse, during her 24 hours lecture for the Agrégation, Paris 23 and 24 March 2004 (subject: the right to the protection of the home in EU & European law).

2002 - 2003

  • Coach of the team of the 'master of international and European law', participating in the international competition European law Moot Court : finalists at the regional final in Helsinki (Finland, February 2003)
  • Introduction to law, legal philosophy & methodology, in 1st year DEUG, with Professor Joseph PINI.
  • Oral examinations of Fundamental freedoms Law in Licence, with Professor Guy SCOFONI.
  • Oral examinations of EU institutional law in 2nd year of DEUG, with Professor Christian JOLY.

Education

  • Thèse de Doctorat en Droit (Ph.D./S.J.D.)

Mention très honorable avec les Félicitations unanimes du Jury,
autorisation de publication en l'état et autorisation de concourir à un prix.
Prix de la meilleure Thèse en droit européen de la
Faculté de Droit d' Aix en Provence, Aix - Marseille Université
:
intitulée "Essai sur la rationalité du droit communautaire des concentrations", sous la direction de M. le Professeur Jacques BOURRINET (Président honoraire de la CEDECE), et
soutenue publiquement le 30 janvier 2009 au Pavillon de Lanfant à Aix en Provence devant un Jury composé de six membres.

2001 - 2002

  • DEA / LLM de droit de l'Union européenne, Mention Bien

Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales et Communautaires
(CERIC, CNRS UMR 7318), Faculté de Droit d' Aix en Provence, Aix - Marseille Université.

Mémoire (Master Thesis) intitulé :
" Quel avenir pour la politique communautaire de concurrence ? ",
sous la direction de M. le Professeur Jacques BOURRINET (soutenance devant M. le Professeur Louis DUBOUIS)

Six Rapports de Recherche :
° " La directive communautaire : l'obligation d'interprétation conforme ", pour M. le Professeur Rostane MEHDI (contentieux communautaire)
° " La politique agricole commune et l'élargissement ", pour M. le Professeur Jacques BOURRINET (politiques économiques communautaires)
° " Le rôle des partenaires sociaux dans l'élaboration du droit social communautaire ", pour Mme Dominique NAZET-ALLOUCHE, Ingénieur de recherches CNRS (droit social communautaire)
° " Les aides fiscales aux entreprises ", pour M. le Juge Jean-Christophe DUCHON-DORIS, Président de Chambre à la Cour administrative d'appel de Marseille (droit fiscal européen)
° " L'Europe et la préparation des forces africaines ", pour Mme le professeur Marie-José DOMESTICI-MET (relations extérieures de l'UE)
° " Les Communautés européennes et la mise en œuvre des décisions de l'Organe d'appel de l'OMC ", pour M. le Professeur Francis SNYDER (droit commercial européen)

2000 - 2001

  • Maîtrise en droit international et européen, Mention Assez Bien

Faculté de droit et de science politique d' Aix en Provence, Aix - Marseille Université.

Préparation du concours international de procès simulé en droit communautaire European Law Moot Court en tant que plaideur de l'équipe d' Aix en Provence.

1999 - 2000

  • Licence en droit, (notamment avec les Professeurs Cathérine PRIETO, Claude IMPERIALI, Roland DEBBASCH)

Faculté de droit et de science politique d' Aix en Provence, Aix - Marseille Université.

1997 - 1999

  • DEUG en droit, (première et deuxième années, notamment avec les Professeurs André ROUX, Jean-Marie PONTIER, Christian ATIAS, Jean-Louis BERGEL, Gilbert ORSONI, Jean-Yves CHEROT)

Faculté de droit et de science politique d' Aix en Provence, Aix - Marseille Université.

1996 - 1997

  • Baccalauréat série Economique et Sociale (ES), Mention Assez Bien

Lycée Franco-Hellénique d'Athènes Eugène Delacroix, Académie Paris-Créteil-Versailles.

Georges Vallindas teaching at the Centro de estudios judiciarios, in Lisbon

Publications & Interventions

  • "EU Architecture Facing Alternative Competition Law Enforcement: Is a Triple Cheeseburger Easy to Eat?", Harvard European Law Association Conference, March 24th 2014, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachussets, USA.

Publication de ma Thèse de Doctorat qui a obtenu le Prix de la meilleure Thèse en droit européen de la Faculté de Droit d' Aix en Provence.

  • "Chronique de jurisprudence de la Cour de justice de l'Union Européenne (année 2011) - III. Concurrence", (avec les Professeurs E. Neframi et P-Y. Monjal), RHDI, Vol. 65, 2012, pp. 289-344.
  • "Chronique de jurisprudence de la Cour de justice de l'Union Européenne (année 2010) - III. Concurrence", (avec les Professeurs E. Neframi et P-Y. Monjal), RHDI, Vol. 64, 2011, pp. 325-370.

Article présenté lors du panel "Social Justice" présidé par Mme Imelda MAHER, Professeur à la London School of Economics, au deuxième Workshop for International Young Scholars, organisé par M. le Professeur SNYDER, Faculté de droit et de science politique, Université Paul Cézanne, Aix en Provence, les 18 et 19 novembre 2005.
Article notamment cité par Stephen WILKS, membre de la UK Competition Commission, Professeur à l'Université d'Exeter, et, par Marc LAPERROUZA dans le cadre du cours de Politiques économiques et sociales - Politique de concurrence, de l'Université de Fribourg.

° French Administrative Courts apply the ECJ's preliminary ruling qualifying a tax on meat purchases as a State aid (GEMO, Nevers viandes, Lianoudis, Sobledis, Uni service Distribution, Honfleur, Picard surgelés), 23 March 2005, e-Competitions, N°14038.

° The French Supreme Administrative Court considered that a tax exemption for "private use" copyrights did not qualified as State aid (Syndicat des Industries de Matériels Audiovisuels Electroniques), 6 February 2004, e-Competitions, N°13358.

° The French Supreme Administrative Court held that the over-compensation paid to health establishements for medical equipment does not constitute State aid (Syndicat National de l'Industrie des Technologies Médicales), 16 January 2004, e-Competitions, N°13365.

° The French Administrative Supreme Court concluded to absence of State aid in case of an open and non-discriminatory tendering privatisation procedure (CIC/SG-BNP-CCF), 18 December 1998, e-Competitions, No13364.

  • Discutant du panel " Concurrence - Régulation " au Workshop for International Young Scholars, sous la direction du Professeur Francis SNYDER, Faculté de droit et de science politique, Université Paul Cézanne, Aix en Provence, les 24 et 25 septembre 2004.
  • " L'avenir de la politique communautaire de concurrence", Intervention pour le colloque de l'Ecole Doctorale d'Aix en Provence " Droit et Prospective " du 16 mai 2002, publiée dans les Actes du colloque sous la direction de M. le Professeur Jean-Marie PONTIER, Quel Droit pour le XXIème siècle?, PUAM 2003, pp. 135-146.

  • Dans le cadre de séminaires / conférences pour la Formation continue au sein d'entreprises et de collectivités publiques:

° Les Services d'intérêts économique général (SIEG)
° Le Service public de l'énergie et le droit de l'Union européenne
° Le Service public hospitalier et le droit de l'Union européenne

Spoken Languages

  • French: bilingual
  • Anglais : courant (lu, écrit, parlé)
  • Italien : bon niveau (lu, écrit, parlé)
  • Grec : langue maternelle, diplôme de maîtrise de la langue grecque (European Consortium for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Languages), Université Aristote de Thessalonique.

Informatique

  • Software: Word, Powerpoint, Excel, creating internet sites.
  • Use of the internet as a comprehensive research tool.

Civil Society activities

Hobbies

  • Natation, football, course à pied, basket-ball.
  • Voyages, jeu des échecs.

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Georges Vallindas with AG Lenz

Georges VALLINDAS, PhD, LLM, in EU Law

Residing currently in

Luxembourg, EU