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• International financial markets
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• Law and economics
• Renewable energy
• Service industry

New Papers

Most of 2012 was dedicated to finishing various papers for edited volumes:a paper on transparency in the WTO decision-making, which is part of a book project on transparency in international law edited by Andrea Bianchi (Graduate Institute, Geneva) and Anne Peters (University of Basel), to be published by Cambridge University Press. You can find the abstract and the paper here; another paper on the role of the WTO Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) on public healthcare for a Research Handbook edited by Geert van Calster and Denise Prévost. You can find the abstract and the paper here; and, finally, a paper on the principle of necessity as a heuristic device in the GATS, as part of a book edited by Hoe Lim and Bart de Meester, to be published by Cambridge University Press.

My highlight for 2012, though, is my two papers on financial innovation, focusing on Basel III and transparency, respectively. This is the result of an interdisciplinary project that we completed with Wolf Wagner this year. The first paper was published in December 2012 in the Journal of World Trade and the second is published in the Journal of International Economic Law in March 2013. Great start into 2013! Previous versions of the papers are available in my ssrn website. Now finishing the last paper of the series relating to subsidies and financial innovation, a highly topical matter. An early version can be found here.

Recent presentations in Conferences

In November 2012, I presented at EUI in Florence my contribution on transnational private regulation in professional services for a project financed by the Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law (HiiL) and coordinated by Profs Cafaggi (EUI), Linda Senden (Utrecht) and Colin Scott (UC Dublin). My study can be found here. Check the publications and events of this very exciting project here.

In July 2012, I was in Singapore for the biennial conference of the society of international economic law to present my paper on financial innovation and transparency. Very good comments by the financial law interest group! That draft is available here.

Still working on services regulation and the GATS! I recently posted an ASIL Insight on the recent WTO Panel Report on China's measures relating to the supply of electronic payment services.

Oct 02-Feb 06 Ph.D. in Law, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, SWITZERLAND (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Petros Mavroidis; Title awarded in June 2006)

Sept-Dec 03 Visiting Research Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, GERMANY

Oct 00-Sep 01 LL.M. in European Law, Institute of European Studies, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, GERMANY

Sep 96-July 00 LL.B. in Law (lic.iur.), Democritus University of Thrace Law School, Komotini, GREECE. Scholarship from the Foundation of State Scholarships (IKY)

Since Sep 2011: Director, Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Tilburg University, THE NETHERLANDS

Feb-June 2011: Guest Professor, teaching "Public International Law" and "International Economic Law", University of Lausanne, SWITZERLAND

Since Dec 2010: Associate Professor of Law and TILEC, Tilburg University, THE NETHERLANDS

Feb-June 10: Guest Professor, teaching "WTO Law" and "EU External Relations", University of Neuchâtel, SWITZERLAND

Feb 08-Nov 10: Assistant Professor of Law and TILEC (tenure track), Tilburg University, THE NETHERLANDS

Since March 06: Senior Research Fellow and MILE International Faculty; World Trade Institute (WTI), Berne, SWITZERLAND

Nov 04-April 05: Intern with the Appellate Body Secretariat, World Trade Organisation (WTO), Geneva, SWITZERLAND

Nov 04-Feb 06: Legal Researcher at the International Center for Sports Studies (Centre International d'Etude du Sport; 50%), Neuchâtel, SWITZERLAND

Feb 03: Attorney-at-Law, Member of the Lawyers' Bar (on leave since August 2008), Thessaloniki, GREECE

Oct 02-June 06: Research and Teaching Assistant (50%), Chair of European, Public International & WTO Law, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, SWITZERLAND

2010-2011: Project on trade liberalization of business services between Switzerland and the EU (jointly with Pierre Sauvé, World Trade Institute, Switzerland).

Since Sep 2009: Project on Transnational Private Regulation (European University Institute, Florence; Tilburg University; University College Dublin) financed by the Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law (HiiL); sub-project on transnational private regulation in professional services.

2009-2012: Project on 'The Law, Economics and Policy of Financial Innovation: Selected Topics' (jointly with Wolf Wagner, Tilburg University).

2008-2010: Co-ordinating the final report of the first phase of the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) on International Trade Regulation, Berne, SWITZERLAND

2008: Lectures during a Specialized Training Programme in preparing, drafting and negotiating FTAs for legal officers of the Attorney-General's Chambers of Malaysia. Module 1 (with Dr. Christian Pitschas): 'Dispute Settlement'; Module 2 (with Pierre Sauvé): 'Drafting FTAs and Trade in Services'. Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA

2007-2008: Senior legal expert leading a team tasked with the preparation of a report on trade in legal services between EU and India commissioned by the Indian Ministry of Commerce in the context of the bilateral negotiations for an India-EU Trade and Investment Agreement, New Delhi, INDIA

2007: Lecture on 'Trade in Services and WTO Case Law' during a Multilateral Trade Assistance Project - Vietnam II (MUTRAP II); Trade in Services in the WTO and case law; World Trade Institute, Berne, SWITZERLAND

2006: Junior expert in the preparation of a World Bank project aiming at the creation of a WTO Dispute Settlement Database. Coordinators: Henrik Horn and Petros Mavroidis, Geneva, SWITZERLAND

2002: Legal Consultant for the UNCTAD Technical Cooperation Project on Market Access, Trade Laws and Preferences - Assisting the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries in their preparations for the GATS negotiations, Geneva, SWITZERLAND

Feb-June 2011: Guest Professor (non-resident) teaching 'Public International Law' and 'International Economic Law' (in French), University of Lausanne, SWITZERLAND

Jan-July 2010: Guest Professor (non-resident) teaching 'WTO law' and 'EU External Relations' (in French), University of Neuchâtel, SWITZERLAND

Since 2008: Collaboration within the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) on 'International Trade Regulation', hosted by the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern, SWITZERLAND

• 'Transnational Private Regulation in Professional Services - A Case Study', Workshop on 'Comparing Transnational Private Regulation', European University Institute, Florence, ITALY
• 'Transparent Financial Innovation in a Post-Crisis Environment', Bi-annual conference of the Soceity of International Economic Law (SIEL), SINGAPORE
• 'Transparency in the WTO Decision-Making', Conference on 'Transparency in International Law', organized by Andrea Bianchi and Anne Peters, Thun, SWITZERLAND
• 'Financial Innovation and Prudential Regulation', Conference on 'Post-Crisis International Financial Regulation: Fragmentation, Harmonization and Coordination' organized by the Americal Society of International Law, December 2011, Boston, USA
• 'Protecting Public Morals in a Digital Era: Revisiting the WTO Rulings in US - Gambling and China - Audiovisual Products', World Trade Forum 2010 on 'Trade Governance in a Digital Era', Berne, SWITZERLAND
• 'Revisiting Domestic Regulation under the GATS in the Light of the Current Financial Crisis', Conference organized by the Journal of International Economic Law, May 2010, London, UNITED KINGDOM
• 'Codes of Conduct and Harmonization of Professional Standards in the EU', Modern Law Review Workshop on 'The Regulation of Trade in Services: Trust, Distrust and Economic Integration', organized by the Centre for Law and Governance at the University College London (UCL) and the Centre for European Legal Studies in Cambridge University, July 2009, London/Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM
• 'GATS, Financial Services, and Trade in Renewable Energy Certificates - Just another Market-Based Solution to cope with the Tragedy of the Commons?', Paper presented at the World Trade Forum 2007 on 'The Role of the WTO in the Climate Change Debate', Berne, SWITZERLAND
• 'Towards a Horizontal Necessity Test for Services - A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action, Please!', Paper presented at the World Trade Forum 2006, Berne, SWITZERLAND
• 'Domestic Regulations in Services Trade and Regulatory Diversity', NCCR Annual Conference, Berne, SWITZERLAND

P. Delimatsis teaches the following subjects:

• Trade and WTO Law (600277) Further information
• International Law (+language skills) (10 ECTS) (610045) Further information
• EU external Relations (610069) Further information
• Internal Market Law (620064) Further information
• European Union Law: Current Issues I (The EU External Relations) (620072) Further information
• International Law (620228) Further information

• Regular peer reviewer for Oxford University Press and the World Trade Review (Cambridge University Press)
• Peer reviewer for the Austrian Science Foundation
• Consultant of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) on issues relating to trade in services and EU-Swiss bilateral relations
• Consultant of the Indian Ministry of Commerce through the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
• Consultant of the Swiss Football Association on the mutual recognition of diplomas of football trainers between the EU and Switzerland in the light of the EU-Swiss bilateral agreements