Honorary Volume for Kostas Chatzikostantinou

Contributors to the volume: AKRIVOULIS Dimitrios E., ANEPSIOU Georgios, ANTONOPOULOS Konstantinos, APOSTOLIDIS Charalambos, ARVANITOPOULOS Constantine, ARGIROPOULOS Konstantinos, VASILEIADIS Panagiotis, VENIZELOS Evangelos, GAVOUnELI Maria, YOUPSANIS Athanasios, GRAMMATIKAS Vasileios E., GRIGORIOU Panos, DIPLAR Haritini, ZAIKOS Nikos, ZERVAKI Antonia, KARAKOSTANOGLOU Benjamin, KARAMBARBOUNIS Charis, KENTROTI Kyriakos D., KOURTIS Dimitrios A., KTISTAKI Stavroula, KYRIAKIDIS Kleanthis, KYRIAKOPOULOS George D., KYRKOS Soterios E., KONSTANTINIDIS Aristotelis, KOSTOPOULOS Dimitrios, LAMPAS Nikolaos, LIAKOURAS Petros, MAGLIVERAS Konstantinos D., MAROUDAS Maria-Daniella, METAXAS Antonis, BALAFOUTA Virginia, BAXEVANIS Christos A., BREDIMAS Antonis, NASKOU-PERRAKI Paraskeyi (Paroula), DALIS Sotiris, XENAKIS Dimitris, PAPAYIOANNOU Maria, PAPANASTASOPOULOS Nikolaos G., PAPASTAVRIDIS Efthymios, PERBOU Ioanna, PERGANTIS Vasilis, PERRAKIS Stelios, PICHOU Maria, PLATIAS Charalampos, SARGIANNIDIS Miltiadis, SIOUSOURAS Petros, STRIBIS Ioannis, TZATZAKI Vasiliki Maria, TZIMAS Themis, TSAGOURIAS Nicholas, TSALTAS Grigorios I., TSITSELIS Konstantinos, YFANDIS Kostas.

Kostas Chatzikostantinou is an Emeritus Professor at AUTh. Apart from Magda, he loved International Law and made the Law School his second home. After all, that is where he met Magda. There, we had the good fortune to know him and love him as a teacher, mentor, friend…

“Dedicated to the University, to research and teaching, …Kostas Chatzikostantinou is the ‘Renaissance Man,’ a Uomo Universale straight out of the ideal of Renaissance Europe. … The experience of having Kostas Chatzikostantinou as a teacher was —and remains for all of us— unique, an experience that could not be contained, described, or understood within the narrow confines of the content of his lectures.

Public International Law in the lectures and seminars of Kostas Chatzikostantinou transformed into what it truly is: studia humanitatis. All conspired, literature, history, moral philosophy, cinema, opera, and Bach's concerts, the humanitas according to Cicero, turning every lecture into an educational and political event that was repeated every week with the same freshness, the same passion.

Kostas Chatzikostantinou embodies humanitas. … The boundaries of Kostas Chatzikostantinou's Renaissance humanism encompass not only the education of his students but also the subtle yet always perceptible guidance of those around him. They simultaneously encompass a realistic social critique as well as utopian assumptions, almost visions, painful revisions of history, and bold quests for the future. For all of us, Kostas Chatzikostantinou had and maintains an apostolic disposition —which he would never admit: To project and bequeath his humanitas to the world.” from the foreword of the editors