Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis

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Dr Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis

LLB (Athens), LLM (Athens), DEA (Paris X-Nanterre), PhD (Paris X-Nanterre)

Senior Lecturer

Dr Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis is a Senior Lecturer in Law at York Law School (University of York), where he has taught and convened modules across EU law, constitutional law and constitutional theory, legal theory and law and AI. He previously taught at the University of Sheffield and has longstanding practice experience as an attorney-at-law in Athens, with work spanning EU law, European human rights and administrative law.

His research sits at the intersection of public law, legal and constitutional theory, human rights, AI and bioethics. A central strand of his recent work develops a realist approach to constitutional and public law—asking how constitutional norms, institutional roles, and judicial practices can be explained in light of the beliefs, incentives, and constraints that shape legal decision-making.

In parallel, he has published on the European Convention on Human Rights and political judgment, and he maintains an active interdisciplinary interest in law and AI, including work on natural language processing applied to ECtHR case law and the ethical limits of computational legal analysis. His most recent outputs include pieces on legal realism in public law and constitutional theory, and a forthcoming article in Lisbon Law Review on realism in constitutional theory.