Accepting applications from PhD students.
Email: k.serdaris@soton.ac.uk
Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)
Dr Konstantinos Serdaris is a Lecturer in Law within the Law School of the University of Southampton since October 2021.
Konstantinos is an EU Qualified lawyer, admitted to the Athens Bar Association since 2015. Konstantinos is a native Greek speaker, fluent in English and Italian and comfortable with German and French.
Konstantinos specialises in EU financial law, with particular focus on capital markets law, corporate finance and corporate governance. He is also particularly interested in regulatory theory, especially with reference to EU law and its integration processes. Moreover, he has conducted research and published papers on various issues of tort and contract law.
Konstantinos welcomes proposals for postgraduate supervision in the fields of financial market regulation, corporate law and corporate governance, and tort law (especially directors’ liability for breach of duty).
Konstantinos teaches Law of Torts (LAWS2045), Remedies in Contracts and Torts (LAWS2044) and Company Law (LAWS3172) at the undergraduate level. He also teaches Corporate Governance (LAWS6160) at the graduate level.
Konstantinos completed his undergraduate studies at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2013) and obtained an LL.M. in Civil Law (with distinction) from the same University (2015). He also holds an LL.M. degree in Comparative, European and International Laws from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (2018). In December 2021, Konstantinos was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws of the European University Institute following the successful defence of his thesis entitled “Primary Market Law in the EU’s Capital Markets Union: Between Unity and Differentiation”. His PhD research was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. phil. Stefan Grundmann and was fully funded by the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) and the EUI.
Konstantinos is also an EU Qualified lawyer, admitted to the Athens Bar Association since 2015. He has worked as associate lawyer in top-tier law firms in Athens, while he has served as legal advisor in the Cabinet of the Minister of Environment & Energy and later of the Minister of Interior of the Hellenic Republic.