SOTIRIOS-IOANNIS LEKKAS

Sotirios-Ioannis Lekkas is Lecturer in International Law at the School of Law of the University of Sheffield. His expertise lies in the field of general international law and, specifically, the law of international responsibility and interpretation. He has also conducted research in various specialised fields of international law including the law of the sea, international criminal law, and international investment law. 

Prior to joining Sheffield, he was lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands and postdoctoral researcher for an ERC-funded project. He has also worked as a judicial fellow at the International Court of Justice and taught public international law for the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford. Other prior engagements include research positions at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the University of Athens.  

Sotirios completed his doctoral dissertation on the intersections between the law of state responsibility and international criminal law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford for which he received the Tenekides Prize by the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations. He has studied law at the University of Athens (LLB; LLM) and University College London (LLM), where he was awarded the Schwarzenberger Prize in International Law by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He is also a member of the Bar in Athens, Greece.