WORK EXPERIENCE (2012-present)

• Research Fellow, Ionian University (Department of Archive, Library Sciences and Museology, School of Informatics and Information Science) since 2018. Tutoring and lecturing as a research fellow (Information Law: Personal Data Protection/Intellectual Property; General Principles of Law).

• Research Fellow, Institute for Information Law (IViR) – Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Information Law, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Copyright Law (July 2018 – September 2018).

  Research Fellow, University of Antwerp, Copyright Law (October 2018-December 2018).

• Attorney-at-Law. Full practice since 2012, handling civil cases, privacy/data protection/intellectual property cases, specialization on internet law etc.

• Attorney-at-Law, collaborator in drafting petitions before the Supreme Court and the Hellenic Council of State on cases on competition law, state aid and administrative law (2012-present).

• Attorney-at-Law, appointed for persons who lack sufficient resources, under Greek Law No. 3226/2004 (2014-2018).

PUBLICATIONS (2016-present)

1. The Long Road Toward Tracking the Trackers and De-biasing: A Consensus on Shaking the Black Box and Freeing From Bias. Review of European Studies, Vol. 11, Issue 1, 2019, pp. 27-50. Available here
2. Initial Coin Offering and Cryptocurrencies: Shifting Trust Away from Human Actors and toward a Cryptographic System. Journal of Financial Risk Management, Vol. 7, Issue 4, 2018, pp. 386-427. Available here
3. Collective Management Organizations as Fiduciaries and Blockchain’s Potential for Copyright Management. 23rd Ius Commune Conference (Amsterdam, November 29-30, 2018); 8th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics (ΙCIL 2018), Modern Intellectual Property Governance and Openness in Europe: A Long and Winding Road? (December 13-14, 2018, University of Antwerp). Available here
4. Fighting Algo-Discrimination: Relying on AI’s learning skills and embedding fair information principles within machines’ heart-design-specifications. 2018 Conference AI: Law and Policy (November 26-27, 2018, Jerusalem and Haifa). Available here
5. The Right to Be Forgotten: Memory holes as the default? Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2018 (October 5-8, 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Available here
6. Current European case-law on the legal protection of databases. Media and Communication Law, 3/2018, Nomiki Bibliothiki, pp. 291-297.
7. DATA FIDUCIARIES AND FAIR PLAY: Overcoming the Personal Data Protection Problem (Book), OABooks, The Canadian Center of Science and Education. Available here .
8. Privacy and Web 3.0: Implementing Trust and Learning from Social Networks, Review of European Studies, Vol. 10, Issue 4, 2018, pp. 16-32. Available here .
9. A Universal Digital Library Based on Unimpeded Access (And some proposals based on Information Ethics), Review of European Studies, Vol. 10, Issue 4, 2018, pp. 33-48. Available here .
10. Personal Data v. Big Data: Challenges of commodification of personal data, Open Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2018, pp. 206-215. Available here .
11. Personal Data v. Big Data in the EU: Control Lost, Discrimination Found, Open Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2018, pp. 192-205. Available here .
12. Personal Data Protection Models: Aspects of Ownership, e-Society Conference, April 14-16, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 224-230. Available here .
13. Data In The Cloud: Whose Control and Whose Consent? At The Crossroads of Intellectual Property and Data Protection Rules, e-Society Conference, April 14-16, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 341-346. Available here .
14. Re-shaping creativity: Proposals for classification of works and flexible opt-in mechanisms, NETTIES Conference, Access to Knowledge in the 21st century: Aspects from law, ethics, education, technology, ICT, history and philosophy, May 3-5, 2018, Corfu, Greece. Available here .
15. Culture: In the hands of the public, Hellenic review of European law, 1/2018, in Greek, pp. 31-42. Available here .
16. Expensive collections of personal data, Commercial Law Review (Epitheorisi tou Emporikou Dikaiou), 4/2017, in Greek, pp. 743-771. Available  here .
17. Intellectual Property Law: Expansionary, prohibitive and proprietary, Commercial Law Review, 3/2017, Sakkoulas Publications, in Greek, pp. 449-462. Available here .
18. The beginning of open and free access or the end of the public domain?, Media and Communication Law, 4/2017, Nomiki Bibliothiki, in Greek, pp. 534-543. Available here .
19. Art: A product of mind or a product of media requirements?, Commercial Law Review, 2/2017, Sakkoulas Publications, in Greek, pp. 247-262. Available here .
20. Google’s modus operandi: Violation of competition law or infringement of fundamental human rights?, Commercial Law Review (Epitheorisi tou Emporikou Dikaiou), 2/2017, in Greek, pp. 289-319. Available here .
21. The overestimated value of related rights and the need to redefine the concept of “communication to the public” in view of modern production and transmission techniques, Hellenic review of European law, 1-2/2017, in Greek, pp. 37-52. Available here .
22. Heavy costs of “free” access to information, Commercial Law Review, 1/2017, Sakkoulas Publications, in Greek, pp. 67-90. Available here .
23. Intellectual Property: Weakening property for the benefit of intellect (From ancient plagiarists to socially vindicated digital pirates), Commercial Law Review, 3-4/2016, Sakkoulas Publications, in Greek, pp. 295-309. Available here .
24. The monopoly of human intelligence: Original works looking for creator, Media and Communication Law, 4/2016, Nomiki Bibliothiki, in Greek, pp. 533-542. Available here .
25. Multi-territorial management of copyright in musical works in the new online environment (in view of Directive 2014/26/EU), Media and Communication Law, 2/2016, Nomiki Bibliothiki, in Greek, pp. 211-215. Available here .

Under publication:

1. Defending Children’s Rights: Minding children’s privacy and development (in light of the GDPR), in Ebook: Children, families, and technology in today’s society: What challenges? Which paths? Lisbon School of Education.

CΟΝFERENCES (2018-present)

Speaker

• 8th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics (ΙCIL 2018), Modern Intellectual Property Governance and Openness in Europe: A Long and Winding Road? (December 13-14, 2018, University of Antwerp); paper: Collective Management Organizations as Fiduciaries and Blockchain’s Potential for Copyright Management.
• 23rd Ius Commune Conference (Amsterdam, November 29-30, 2018); paper: Collective Management Organizations as Fiduciaries and Blockchain’s Potential for Copyright Management.
• 2018 Conference AI: Law and Policy (November 26-27, 2018, Jerusalem and Haifa); paper: Fighting Algo-Discrimination: Relying on AI’s learning skills and embedding fair information principles within machines’ heart-design-specifications.
• Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2018 (Oct. 5-8, Amsterdam, The Netherlands); paper: The Right to Be Forgotten: Memory holes as the default?
• e-Society April 14-16, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal, paper: Personal Data Protection Models: Aspects of Ownership (with Maria Bottis)
• e-Society April 14-16, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal, paper: Data In The Cloud: Whose Control and Whose Consent? At The Crossroads of Intellectual Property and Data Protection Rules (with Maria Bottis)
• NETTIES May 3-5, 2018, Access to Knowledge in the 21st century: Aspects from law, ethics, education, technology, ICT, history and philosophy, Corfu, Greece, paper: Re-shaping creativity: Proposals for classification of works and flexible opt-in mechanisms. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3121420
• Lecture (on Privacy and Web 3.0) at the 3rd secondary school of Corfu (organized by the Institute of Educational Policy of the Greek Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs on the 2nd of May 2018)

Organizer

• 5^th National Conference on Medical Liability and Bioethics, Athens 19/1/2018, Personal Data and Genetic Data, Ionian University, Chair of the Organizing Committee, www.mbrc.gr (https://mrbc.gr/2018/conference/committees/mpouchagiar-giorgos/)

• NETTIES 2018, Access to Knowledge in the 21st century: Aspects from law, ethics, education, technology, ICT, history and philosophy, May 3-5, 2018, Corfu, Greece, IAFES and Ionian University, Chair of the organizing committee

LANGUAGES

• Greek (mother tongue)
• English: C1 (IELTS, academic, 7.0)
• French: C1 (DELF 2^nd Degree, units A5/Α6)
• Italian, working knowledge

MEMBER IN ASSOCIATIONS

• Bar of Corfu, Greece (since 2013)

• International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT)

• Hellenic Association of Data Protection and Privacy (HADPP)

• (Research Team) Information: History, Regulation, Culture (IHRC), Ionian University

EXTRACURRICULAR

• Released 13 musical albums as a composer (www.tziko.gr)

• Participation as a songwriter in “Art is Resistance Festival” (Keratea, Greece) for the cancellation of construction of a landfill site at the integrated waste management facility in Ovriokastro, Greece (2011)

• Composed music for TV commercial “Bank of Cyprus – Clone”, directed by Vardis Marinakis, 2010 (https://vimeo.com/13480243)

• Open water autonomous diver, Raja Ampat Biodiversity Eco Resort, Papua, Indonesia (Jan. 8, 2014)

• Member of the crew in many sailing races in the Ionian Sea since I was ten.

ΙΤ SKILLS

• Proficient in Microsoft Office (including Excel and Powerpoint)

• Excellent editing skills.