Dr Georgia Antonopoulou

Georgia joined Birmingham Law School in 2021 as a Lecturer in Law. She holds an LLB from the University of Athens, an LLM in Civil Procedure from the same university, and an LLM in German Law with a focus on Private International Law from the University of Freiburg. Georgia is a member of the Athens Bar since 2014 and has worked as an attorney at law specialising in insolvency law and debt recovery for several law firms in Athens. 

Georgia recently defended her PhD at Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focused on international commercial courts and their forum selling practices. It was part of a larger project on procedural innovations and access to justice led by Prof. Xandra Kramer and funded by the European Research Council. Georgia was a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute on Procedural Law in Luxembourg, and the Singapore Management University, School of Law. She has also worked as a teaching assistant in Research and Writing Skills at Erasmus School of Law and in International and European Law at the China-EU School of Law, China University of Political Science and Law.