Dr Maria Tzanakopoulou

Overview

Biography

Maria is a lecturer at the School of Law, Birkbeck. She studied law in Athens (National and Kapodistrian University) and London (UCL) during which time she also became a member of the Athens Bar Association. She has previously taught European Law and Human Rights Law at King’s College London and University College London. Maria specialises in Public Law and European Public Law and has published mainly in the area of constitutional law and constitutionalism in the state and beyond.

Research

Research overview

Maria’s main research areas include constitutional law and constitutional theory in a national, regional and global setting. She is interested in theories of power and the state and their internal contradictions. Maria has also researched in the area of European law, focusing mainly on the European Union’s road to constitutionalism. Other research interests include labour law domestically and regionally.

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

1

Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

• ATHENA MICHALAKEA

  Nature of supervision:

  Joint Principal Supervisor, Dec 2019

  Title of thesis:

  Regulating Sexual Labour in Modern and Contemporary Greece: State, governance feminism(s) and the sex workers' movement

  Awarded:

  2024

Teaching

Teaching modules

• Constitutional and Administrative Law (LADD033S4)
• Constitutional and Administrative Law (Senior Status) (LADD060S6)
• Labour Law (level 5) (LALW034H5)
• Labour, law and technology (LALW061S7)
• Public Law (GDL) (LALW113H6)

Publications