Dr Grigoris Bacharis
Grigoris Bacharis is a Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Edinburgh and an Academic Year Lead for third-year LLB students. He teaches private law, primarily delict and contract.
Grigoris’ research interests lie broadly in private law (across both civil and common law jurisdictions), competition law, EU law, and legal theory. His current work focuses on (1) the interaction between competition damages claims and tort law from the perspective of private law theory, (2) private law theory in the European context, with a focus on the private enforcement of public policies, and (3) EU and US competition law.
He has served as an editor of the European Journal of Legal Studies, coordinator of the EUI Private Law Working Group, and visiting researcher at Columbia Law School, King’s College London, and Humboldt University Berlin. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, he worked as a lawyer in Greece, as a trainee at the European Commission, and as a Fellow in Law at LSE Law School.
Grigoris obtained an LLM degree (with distinction) from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and holds a Bachelor of Law (first in year) and a Master’s degree in Private, Labour, and Civil Procedural Law (with distinction) from the University of Thessaloniki.
He is currently working on a book project based on his PhD research, and his latest article, co-authored with Szymon Osmola, titled ‘Bridging the Gap(s): The Importance of Private Law Theory in the EU Context’ is forthcoming in the Common Market Law Review (October 2024).
