Philomila Tsoukala
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S.J.D. 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Dissertation
Tentative title: "Beyond formalism in Greek legal thought: Rethinking the family law reforms"
My dissertation is a historical study of Greek legal thought, through the lens of family law, from the establishment of the Greek state (1830) to the family law reforms of 1983. My dissertation challenges legal historical accounts of family law as a marginal, private body of rules with little political significance. Instead, I offer an account of the crucial role that the legal regulation of the family had to play in the deep structural transformations taking place in the move away from the Ottoman past.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Social and Political Theories of the Family, with Professor Janet Halley, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- American Legal Thought, with Professor Duncan Kennedy
- Continental Legal History with an Emphasis on Family Law, with Professor Charles Donahue Jr.
- Anthropology of Greece, with Professor Michael Herzfeld
Additional Research Interests
- Legal History
- Feminist Thought
- Liberalism and Nationalism
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. 2008
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. Program 2001-2002
- Paris II, Pantheon-Assas, D.E.A. en Droit Public 2000
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, LL.B. 1999
Appointments and Fellowships
- Harvard Law School, 2004-2005, Graduate Program Fellow, LL.M. Writers Workshop
- Harvard College, 2004-2005, Teaching Fellow
- Harvard Law School, 2003-2004, Teaching Assistant, Social and Political Theories of the Family, Professor Janet Halley
- Harvard College, 2003-2004, Teaching Fellow
- Harvard Law School 2002-2003, Graduate Program Fellow, LL.M. Advisor
Additional Information
- Personal Resume
- Languages: English, French, Greek (native)