Achilles Skordas is Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Athens. He is member of the Odysseus Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum Law in Europe and member of the Department of Studies of the Greek Parliament. He has written extensively on immigration and refugee law.

Recent articles

People movement is released by globalisation but must still be accommodated within institutional norms and fundamental values. In a vigorous counter-proposal to the People Flow document, Achilles Skordas argues that making the European Union an accessible space for new migrants requires a policy built around two axes: the market and human rights.

The use of nuclear weapons, the ultimate nightmare of contemporary warfare, has never been properly judged as lawful or not in international law. This ‘gap’ is the starting point for a subtle, provocative and challenging argument: could a right to use nuclear weapons in law be the best defence against their use in practice?

Islamic fundamentalism isn’t the real problem. The trouble arises from the existential clash of liberal and authoritarian political cultures. So now is the time for a militant liberal culture.