She was born and raised in Athens. She graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens (1983). She continued her postgraduate studies at the Université de Droit, d’Économie et des Sciences Sociales, Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), earning a D.E.A. in Administrative Science (1986). She also attended the Public Law Seminars of the Council of State (1991). She is fluent in French and English.
Since 1986, she has been practicing law as a litigator and consultant before domestic courts (the Council of State and Administrative Courts) as well as European courts (E.C.H.R. and C.J.E.U.), covering a wide range of public law cases. Since 1994, she has been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. She has acted as a Legal Counsel and member of the Legal Board of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), and as an Attorney for the Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government. She has also cooperated with the Athens Planning and Urban Development Organization (ORSA) and “Double Regeneration Votanikos-Alexandras Avenue S.A.” of the Municipality of Athens. She has participated in Law Drafting Committees of the Ministry of Environment. She has served as President and Member of the Board of Directors of WWF Hellas. She is a member of the Hellenic Scientific Association of Planning and Urban Development Law.
She specializes and practices, both as a litigator and as a consultant, in the protection of the natural and cultural environment, urban planning and spatial planning law. She has handled cases before the Greek Council of State concerning the environmental permitting of Olympic and other major public projects (including the Imittos Ring Road, the Rio–Antirrio bridge and the diversion of the Acheloos river), strategic and other investments (Kavo Sidero, Elliniko, gold mines in Halkidiki, and the establishment and operation of industrial units), and spatial and urban plans (the spatial plans for tourism and aquaculture, and urban planning in Mati, Marousi, Corinth and Karpenisi). Cultural heritage protection is a particular area of her practice, including cases concerning the Venizelos Metro Station in Thessaloniki, the inhabited settlement of Monemvasia, the Monemvasia cable car, the Kanellopoulos Museum, the Kouremenos building on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, Philopappou Hill, and listed buildings and monuments in the historic centre of Athens and other traditional and historic settlements in Greece.
She has also litigated cases concerning energy law, including the power plants in Agios Dimitrios, Megalopoli and Ptolemaida, seismic surveys in Ioannina and southwest and west of Crete, renewable energy sources, and the Alexandroupoli FSRU.
Her expertise also covers the protection of property from conflicting land uses, including expropriation, the lifting of restrictions, disputes over restrictions on property within and outside town plans, and compensation claims for restrictions on property, as well as the implementation of forest legislation, including the designation of forests, forest land and areas subject to reforestation.
PUBLICATIONS
- “Protection of the Cultural Environment and Major Projects” (a dialogue with Angelos Chasapopoulos), in Article 24 of the Constitution: 50 Years of Application. Challenges on the Path to Sustainable Development, Nomiki Vivliothiki Publ. (2026), p. 226 et seq.
- (Scientific supervision) “The evolution of the principle of sustainable development through the case-law developments of the past three decades: an opportunity for a decisive step towards tomorrow”, in Landmark Cases of the Hellenic Council of State. Annotated case-law of the last 30 years, edited by Stelios Tsevas, Athens, Nomiki Vivliothiki Publ. (2022), p. 247 et seq.
- (with N. C. Alivizatos) “The President of the Republic as a counterweight to the Legislative”, in Sustainable State. Honorary Volume dedicated to Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Hellenic Society for Environmental Law, Athens–Thessaloniki, Sakkoulas Publ. (2022), p. 603 et seq.
- “Rationalism v. Tradition: the ‘Alevromyloi Alatini’ cases (CoS 669/2010) and the principle of ‘single administration’”, in The Judge, the Law and the Environment, an honorary volume dedicated to C. Menoudakos, honorary President of the Council of State, Sakkoulas Publ. (2016), p. 155 et seq.
- “The case law about spatial planning and Law 4269/2014: the example of Special Spatial Planning Frameworks”, in Environment and Public Procurement, Symposium of the Union of Members of the State Legal Council and the Hellenic Single Public Procurement Authority (EAADHSY), Nomiki Vivliothiki Publ. (2016), p. 157 et seq.
- “La dimension écologique de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme et les limites du contrôle juridictionnel”, in Mélanges en l’honneur du Juge Rozakis, Brussels, Bruylant Publ. (2011), p. 261 et seq.
- “The integration of archaeological sites and monuments in modern life”, Theory and Practice of Administrative Law 1 (2011), p. 15 et seq.
- “The ‘destination’ of land beyond town planning boundaries: a legal presumption at challenge”, Law and Nature, www.nomosphysis.org.gr (May 2009).
- “ECHR Budayeva and others v. Russia: Right to life and environmental protection”, Applied Administrative Law KA (2008), III, p. 1094 et seq.
- “The binding effect of the ‘rules of science’ in spatial and urban planning law”, in Urban Planning Competences and the Constitution, Institute of Local Government (ITA), Papazisis Publ. (2008), p. 69 et seq.
- (with P. Voyatzis) “Olympic Games and Environmental Law before the Council of State: a difficult balance”, in Honorary Volume of the Council of State – 75 Years, Sakkoulas Publ. (2004), p. 1089 et seq.