Professor of Civil Law – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Attorney to the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos)
Anastassios Valtoudis is a Professor of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos), and an arbitrator for EODID (Athens Mediation and Arbitration Organization) and ODEE (Arbitration and Mediation Center of the German-Hellenic Chamber of Industry and Commerce). He also served as an arbitrator for Egnatia Odos SA and as legal counsel for a Greek systemic bank, a mining company, consortia of hotels, a convent, as well as other companies and individuals.
He has represented numerous cases before arbitral tribunals and state civil courts of all instances. Additionally, he is an Associate of Civil Law at the legal journal Elliniki Dikaiosini, a contributor to other Civil Law journals, and a member of the Research Institute of the Faculty of Law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for Transparency, Corruption, and Financial Crime.
He was a Board Member of the Panhellenic Association of Civil Law Scientists from 2014 to 2017 and served as Treasurer until 2023. He is currently the Special Secretary for the 2023-2026 term. He is also a member of various scientific associations and has participated in numerous law drafting committees.
For thirteen (13) years he had been a Teaching Professor of Law of Obligations at the National School of Judges. Moreover, he has been teaching for twenty eight (28) years at the Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He has authored four (4) monographs on the Law of Obligations, focusing on topics such as the producers’ liability for defective products, the sale of enterprises, work contracts, and unjust enrichment in trilateral relations, particularly those of banking law. He has also contributed in Commentaries on the Law of Obligations and has written numerous essays, legal opinions, and comments on judicial decisions related to specialized issues in the Law of Obligations, Banking Law, Civil and International Civil Procedure, and the Methodology of Law.
He is fluent in Greek and English.