dr. I (Ioannis) Kampourakis

Biography

Ioannis Kampourakis is Associate Professor of Law and Markets at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research examines the legal foundations of economic power, drawing on legal theory, political economy, and transnational law. He is particularly interested in how law constitutes markets and the conditions under which it might serve as a vehicle for socio-economic transformation.

His current project focuses on the law and political economy of the green transition. In 2023, he was awarded the 3-year NWO Veni grant to research the implications of the EU regulation of Critical Raw Materials and the shift to industrial policy and market instrumentalism under the European Green Deal.

Ioannis is a co-director of the project 'Law and Political Economy in Europe'. He serves as an editor of the Law and Political Economy book series published by Cambridge University Press, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Law and Political Economy. His research has appeared in journals such as Modern Law Review, Regulation & Governance, Leiden Journal of International Law, European Law Open, and Yale Journal of International Law.

Before joining Erasmus, Ioannis held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. He has also held visiting positions at institutions including the University of Glasgow, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, and the University of Johannesburg.

Ioannis holds a PhD in Law from the Free University of Berlin, a Master’s in Public Law from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and an LLB from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.