ΦΙΛΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΣΜΟΣ

Professor Aristides Hatzis was born in Thessaloniki Greece in 1967. He completed his basic legal studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He studied Sociology, Philosophy, History and Economic Analysis of Law at the graduate level at the Aristotle University Law School (LL.B., LL.M.) and at the University of Chicago Law School (LL.M., J.S.D.) In 1999, he received his doctorate on the economics of contract law, under the supervision of Richard A. Posner (chair), Frank Easterbrook and William Landes. He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law and Institutions' Theory at the School of Methodology, History and Theory of Science of the Athens Kapodistirian University. He is elected member of the steering committee of the European Association of Law and Economics, Associate Fellow of the Center for Free Enterprise in Seoul and member of the Advisory Board of the Society of European Contract Law, the Steering Committee of the European Network for Better Regulation and the Editorial Board of the European Review of Contract Law. He is the recipient of several fellowships and awards and the author of many academic papers and newspaper op-eds. He is also member of the Greek and the American Bar Association, the American Economic Associationand many others. His areas of interest include law & economics, contract law, philosophy of law, bioethics, rational choice theory.