CURRICULUM VITAE
Victor Τsilonis
Victor.Tsilonis@intellectum.org
Victor Tsilonis is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Law of Aristotle University, an attorney-at-law (Thessaloniki, Greece) and editor-in-chief of the Intellectum interdisciplinary journal (www.intellectum.org).
Victor commenced his law studies in 1996 at the University of Central England and was awarded the Higher Diploma in Education (Law) before getting a transfer at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Consequently, he read law at Aristotle University for three years and graduated in July 2002 (ranked 7th).
In summer 2002 he was granted a D.A.A.D. scholarship to attend the MUST Summer School Programme of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and subsequently embarked upon an LL.M. Course in Human Rights/Criminal Justice at the University of Nottingham. During his LL.M. Course in Nottingham he worked at the University of Nottingham as a Greek language tutor, while his LL.M. essay "The Move to Restrict Death Penalty in International Human Rights Law and Resistance in the American Continent " received a distinction mark and was published at the Human Rights Law Review-Student Supplement of 2002-2003 (University of Nottingham, pp. 45-55).
In 2004 he became member of the Greek Bar and took up a six-month internship at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague (ICTY, Office of the Prosecutor). Following his return in Greece, he has been assigned research fellow to the Criminal Law Department of Aristotle University's School of Law during the academic years 2004-2005, 2006-2009, while in 2005 Victor completed his compulsory military service as a legal secretary at the Judicial Offices of the Greek Air Force.He has written and presented papers regarding the Milosevic and Saddam Hussein cases at the University of Nottingham and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
