Education:
Ph.D., LL.M., Girton College, University of Cambridge
LL.B., University of Athens

Professor Takis Tridimas holds a joint appointment as a professor of law at Penn State and as the Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law at the University of London’s Queen Mary College. A native of Athens, Greece, Professor Tridimas served as senior legal advisor to the 2003 European Union (EU) presidency and chaired the committee responsible for conducting the legal negotiations and drafting the Treaty of Accession to the EU of the Central and Eastern European States.

Professor Tridimas is the co-editor of the Yearbook of European Law, a member of the Editorial Board of The Company Lawyer, a member of the Advisory Board of the European Financial Services Law Review, and a prolific scholar in the areas of financial services, trade and comparative constitutional law. He previously taught as a Fellow of St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and as a professor of European law at the University of Southampton School of Law in London.

An active member of the European legal community, Tridimas is a barrister in England and Wales (Middle Temple), an advocate of the Bar of Athens, Greece, and, from 1992-1995, served as a law clerk for the European Court of Justice.

At Penn State Dickinson, Professor Tridimas is conducting the seminar Comparative Judicial Law Making in the U.S. and the European Union. He also teaches or has taught EU Law, Securities Regulation, Commercial Law of the EU, Law of the Internal Market, EC Competition Law and Judicial Remedies in the EU, to name a few.

Contact Information:
Email: put3@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-8975

Publications:
The General Principles of EU Law, 2nd ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

The General Principles of EC Law, 2nd ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

“The European Court of Justice and Judicial Federalism,” in Patterns of Regionalism and Federalism: Lessons for the UK, J. Fedtke and B.S. Markezinis, eds., Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006.

“The EU Constitutional Treaty and the Member States: Reflections on a Quasi-Federal Polity,” in Nordic and Other European Constitutional Traditions, J. Nergelius, ed., Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.

EU Law for the Twenty-First Century: Rethinking The New Legal Order, with P. Nebbia, ed., Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004.

“National Courts and the European Court of Justice: A Public Choice Analysis of the Preliminary Reference Procedure,” with G. Tridimas, International Review of Law and Economics, 2004.

“Knocking on Heaven's Door: Fragmentation, Efficiency and Defiance in the Preliminary Reference Procedure,” Common Market Law Review, 2003.

“Black, White, and Shades of Grey: Horizontality of Directives Revisited,” Yearbook of European Law, 2002.

“The European Court of Justice and the Annulment of the Tobacco Advertisement Directive: Friend of National Sovereignty or Foe of Public Health?,” with G. Tridimas, European Journal of Law and Economics, 2002.

"Liability for Breach of Community Law: Growing Up and Mellowing Down?” Common Market Law Review, 2001.

The General Principles of EC Law, European Law Library, Oxford University Press, 2000.

New Directions in European Public Law, with J. Beatson, ed., Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1997.