Symeon Symeonides

Symeon C. Symeonides received his first law degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Law School (Greece) with the highest grade in that school’s history—a perfect 10 out of 10. He also holds an LLM and an SJD from the Harvard Law School, and three honorary doctorates. He joined Willamette in 1999 as Dean of the College of Law and served in that capacity until 2011. Previously, he taught at the University of Thessaloniki (1976-78), and Louisiana State University, where he was the Judge Albert Tate Professor of Law (1987) and vice chancellor (1991-97). He has taught at the universities of Paris-I (Sorbonne), Paris-V (Descartes), Aix-en-Provence, Louvain-la-Neuve, NYU, Tulane, and Loyola, and lectured at The Hague Academy of International Law and in more than fifty universities in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. He is also an honorary professor at the East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai, China.