Dr Fotis Vergis
- College Associate Professor and Fellow in Law, DoS (Law Tripos II)
- Affiliated Lecturer
About
Fotis Vergis is Associate Professor and Fellow in Law at Gonville & Caius college, Cambridge.
He studied for his Law Degree and his first LLM (both With Honours) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and for his second LLM and PhD at the University of Cambridge. His PhD thesis (Collective Labour Rights after the Treaty of Lisbon as an element of the substantive constitutionalisation of EU law) was awarded the Yorke Prize and the runner-up ETUC/ETUI Bercusson Award.His PhD research was supported, inter alia, by Hughes Hall and by the Modern Law Review Scholarship.
Outputs in recent years include work on collective labour law, migrant workers, and a co-edited publication on the multi-faceted inherent crisis of the EU that has manifested in recent years, with the euro crisis as its first symptom.
Prior to joining Gonille & Caius he was Lecturer in Law at The University of Manchester law school (SoSS/Law), teaching Employment Law and EU law. While there he was also the Course Director for Employment Law between 2017-2022 and the Programme Director for the LLB Law With Politics (2019-2022). Previously he had worked as a Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, supervising for various colleges (Constitutional Law, EU Law, and Labour Law), and, briefly, as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Labour Law). Before fully committing to academia he was a practising barrister in Greece, working predominantly on labour law.
His work in Manchester was recognised with the Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, the Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Programme of the Year Award (as Programme Director) by the UoM and the Faculty of Humanities. He was also part of the team that was awarded the 'Making a Difference' Award, for ‘The Justice Hub Covid-19 Virtual Vacation Scheme’, an initiative also nominated for the LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards 2021.
He is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), the Industrial Law Society (ILS), the Manchester Industrial Relations Society (MIRS) the Academic Network on European Social Charter and Social Rights (RACSE/ANESC). He sits on the Editorial Board of the Greek Labour Law Review (ΕΕργΔ) and on the Scientific Committee of the ‘Moving Labour Collective’ (MLC), a community of academics and researchers working on labour law & related studies open to trade unionists and activists.
EDUCATION DETAILS
10/2011-Today PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
(Hughes Hall Bursary; Modern Law Review Scholarship)
7/2011 LLM, University of Cambridge (First Class) - European Law Specialisation
(E.M. Burnett Prize)
2/2009 Master's Degree in Civil Law, Civil Procedural Law and Labour Law (Labour Law Dissertation, 42,000 words in Greek: 'The distinction between sectoral and occupational collective agreements and the results of their legal declaration as universally binding'), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Summa Cum Laude, 10/10)
9/2003 Law Degree, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Summa Cum Laude, 8.72/10)
(Municipality of Kavala Scholarship)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
8/2005 - Today Registered Lawyer, Thessaloniki Bar Association
10/2004-3/2005 Apprenticeship and training, Athanassios Yanoussis Law Offices, Thessaloniki (Labour Law, Civil Procedure)
9/2003-10/2004 Apprenticeship and training,Theodoros Simopoulos Law Office, Thessaloniki (Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure)
1/2003-9/2003 Paralegal/Intern, Theodoros Simopoulos Law Office, Thessaloniki
ACADEMIC & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
10/2013-Today Supervisor - Labour Law, University of Cambridge
10/2012-Today Supervisor - Constitutional Law, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
5/2010-9/2010 T.A. - Subdivision of Labour Law, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
10/2007-11/2008 Research Assistant - Greek Civil Procedure Law and Labour Law, Prof. Kalliope Makridou, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki [see, in Greek, Makridou K., ΔικονομÃα Εργατικþν Διαφορþν (Civil Procedure of Labour Disputes), Sakkoulas, Thessaloniki, 2009]
Research
Labour Law, EU Law, Constitutional theory & Constitutional Law
Current areas of focus: digital forms of collective organisation and action; the value of collective autonomy as inherent prerequisite of systemic democratisation; elements of 'populist constitutionalism' and the constitutional nature of the EU.
Labour Law
EU Law
Constitutional Law / Constitutional Theory
Supervisor(s): Prof. Catherine Barnard, Prof. Simon Deakin
Research centres: Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS); Centre for Public Law (CPL)