AUTh: Law School bids farewell to its emeritus professor Konstantinos Kerameas

One of “her most brilliant and eminent children”, her emeritus professor Konstantinos Kerameas, is said goodbye by the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and in a resolution refers to the rich academic course of the deceased.

Konstantinos Kerameus was born in Thessaloniki on 21/4/1937. He graduated in 1960 from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received a doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1962. He was an assistant in the civil law department of the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and then a lecturer (1967). He was elected full Professor of Civil Procedure at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in September 1971 at the age of just 34 years old. In 1982 he was elected full Professor of Civil Procedure at the Law School of EKPA. He has taught civil procedure, comparative law and international procedural law in Greece and at many foreign universities (especially Berlin, Hamburg, Paris II, Tulane, Louisiana State University, Ohio State University, Ghent). He has lectured at more than 90 European, American and Japanese universities. His scientific and research work includes Greek and foreign language manuals, monographs, systematic works and article interpretations.

Konstantinos Kerameus was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universities of Hamburg (1993), Paris II Pantheon-Assas (2000), Liege (2003) and Vienna (2003). He was, among others, president of the International Academy of Comparative Law (1998-2006), director of the Hellenic Institute of International and Foreign Law (1990-2007), president of the State Scholarship Foundation (1992-1995), president of the Academic Cooperation Association (1996- 2002), full member of the European Academy (since 1994), member of the International Union of Legal Science (since 1993), member of the International Union of Procedural Law (since 1995) and president of the Hellenic Association for Arbitration. He has represented Greece in diplomatic conferences and meetings, including the Lugano Convention and the negotiations for Greece’s accession to the Brussels Convention, as well as in committees for the harmonization of contract law, torts and civil procedure. In parallel with his academic career, he participated as an arbitrator in international arbitrations, practiced law before the Supreme Court and served as Chief Legal Adviser of the National Bank of Greece.

The Dean and the Board of Directors of the Law School of AUTh express their sincere condolences to his family.

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