Thomas Papadopoulos is a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School. He received his DPhil in Law (PhD in Law) from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He received a degree of Magister Juris(MJur/LLM) and a degree of MPhil in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He also received his LLB with Distinction (ranked 1st) from the Department of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is an alumnus of the Anatolia American College of Thessaloniki, Greece. Furthermore, he is Attorney at law (Greece), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Scholar and Scholar of the A.G. Leventis Foundation, Paris. He is a part-time law lecturer at the Law School, University of… Buckingham and a law tutor at the Oxford University Programme for Undergraduate Studies(OPUS), University of Oxford, UK. Additionally, he was Academic Student Coordinator of the Financial Law Discussion Group, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Moreover, he is a contributor to 'Law of the European Union' edited by D. Vaughan, A. Robertson, P. Eleftheriadis and published by Oxford University Press (2008). He participated in workshops of the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument (TAIEX) managed by the Directorate-General Enlargement of the European Commission. E-mail: thomas.papadopoulos@yahoo.com or thomas.papadopoulos@bnc.oxon.org.