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CURRICULUM VITAE

Victor Τsilonis
editor-in-chief

Victor.Tsilonis@intellectum.org

Victor Tsilonis is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Law of Aristotle University, a senior attorney-at-law in Greece and a member of the Criminal Law Experts' Association. He has legal significant legal experience not only before the Greek Courts but also before the European Court of Human Rights.

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 was assigned research fellow to the Criminal Law Department of Aristotle University's School of Law during the academic years 2004-2005 and 2006-2009, while in 2005 Victor completed his compulsory military service as a legal secretary at the Judicial Offices of the Greek Air Force in Thessaloniki.

In 2009 Victor was a member of the "Alexiadis' Research Team" which conducted research on the prisoners' rights and the living conditions in five Greek prisons in the honour of the emeritus professor Stergios Alexiadis. In 2009-2010 he was coordinator of the Bar of Thessaloniki workgroup for Commenting & Evaluating Selected Judicial Decisions, while in 2010-2011 he taught under the auspices of the Bar of Thessaloniki the module of English Legal Terminology.

Moreover, he has conducted interviews with eminent people, such as the professor of political Sciences Ulrich Beck, former chief prosecutor of ICTY, Carla Del Ponte, philosopher David S. Oderberg, forensic anthropologist Sue Black, Scottish writer Paul Johnston, poet Haris Vlavianos, professor of communication studies Richard Katula, professor of international criminal law and human rights William Schabas, writer Panos Theodorides and journalist Stelios Kouloglou.

Finally yet importantly, he has written and presented papers regarding international criminal law, the rights of prisoners as well as the Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo and Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir cases at the University of Nottingham, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, SLSA and European Foundation's Conferences.