Overview
Dimitris Xenos is a senior lecturer in law at the Cardiff School of Management. He also acts as a legal consultant for law offices and private and public bodies.
Dr Xenos’s research interests and expertise lie in the intersection between public and private laws, e.g. human rights law and substantive economic law such as industrial and intellectual property, and the interface of these areas with constitutional law and democratic governance. He has actively been involved in the workings of an international academic network of IP law scholars who advocate democratic safeguards in the development and operation of the patent system in Europe.
His first monograph, The Positive Obligations of the State under the European Convention of Human Rights, has dealt with human rights violations by non-state actors and the indirect responsibility of public authorities (i.e. a civil law duty of care influenced by public law), including the duty to protect the vulnerable. This established book in the area of human rights law was cited by Judge Cançado Trindade in the leading environmental law case of Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v Japan) of the International Court of Justice.
Dr Xenos has regularly provided expert evidence to public consultations of institutional bodies, such as the Law Commission regarding contempt of court and protection of official data, the Parliament and its Committees on online safety, human rights, and intellectual property, as well as the European Ombudsman on the European Commission’s expert groups.
He has given papers by invitation at conferences and seminars organised by Schools of Law and Economics in London, Berlin, Rome, Athens, Budapest, Rotterdam and Taipei.
Dr Xenos is a Fellow of the European Public Law Organisation, book review editor of its European Review of Public Law, and member of the Centre for Freedom of the Media. He read Law at the University of Sheffield Hallam and completed a DPhil in Law at the University of Durham (University College).
Research Publications
An Introduction to the Economic Analysis of Law as a Legal Theory in Improving Legal Argumentation and Judicial Decision-making for IP Law in Europe
Xenos, D., 30 Apr 2024, Legal Argumentation: Reasoned Dissensus and Common Ground . Feteris, E., Kloosterhuis, H., Plug, H. J. & Smith, C. (eds.).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
European Patent System: Failures in Constitutional Design Crippling Essential Safeguards against Adverse Economic Effects
Xenos, D., 15 May 2023, The Unitary Patent Package & Unified Patent Court: Problems, Possible Improvements and Alternatives . Desaunettes-Barbero, L., de Visscher, F., Strowel, A. & Cassiers, V. (eds.).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
The impact of the European patent system on SMEs and national states
Xenos, D., Mar 2020, In: Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation. 36, 1, p. 51-68 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Unconstitutional supranational arrangements for patent law: Leaving out the elected legislators and the people’s participatory rights
Xenos, D., 25 Mar 2019, In: Information and Communications Technology Law. 28, 2, p. 131-160 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The protection against crime as a human right: Positive obligations of the police
Xenos, D., 1 Jan 2018, The Police and International Human Rights Law. Springer International Publishing, p. 181-215 35 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
The Guardian’s publications of snowden files: Assessing the standards of freedom of speech in the context of state secrets and mass surveillance
Xenos, D., 11 Jul 2016, In: Information and Communications Technology Law. 25, 3, p. 201-228 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Language Discrimination in the European Union
Xenos, D., 2014, In: Gazzetta Amministrativa della Repubblica Italiana . 3, p. 43-58 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The European Unified Patent Court: Assessment and Implications of the Federalisation of the Patent System in Europe
Xenos, D., 2013, In: SCRIPTed - Journal of Law, Technology & Society . 11, 2, p. 246-277 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The issue of safety of media professionals and human rights defenders in the jurisprudence of the un Human Rights Committee
Xenos, D., Dec 2012, In: Chinese Journal of International Law. 11, 4, p. 767-783 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
The positive obligations of the state under the European convention of human rights
Xenos, D., 27 Apr 2012, Taylor and Francis. 231 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review