Professor of Civil Law – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Attorney to the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos)
Anastasios 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), a Legal Expert in proceedings before the High Court of London, and an Arbitrator and/or Legal Expert in proceedings of International and Domestic Arbitration.
He is an Arbitrator for EODID (Athens Mediation and Arbitration Organization) and ODEE (Arbitration and Mediation Center of the German-Hellenic Chamber of Industry and Commerce), while he 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 been actively involved in numerous cases before arbitral tribunals and state civil courts, especially the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court.
He is a Member of the Committee in charge for Civil Law and a Regular Contributor to the Judges’ Legal Journal named “ELLINIKI DIKAIOSINI” (“GREEK JUSTICE”), as well as a Contributor to other Private Law Journals. He is also a Treasurer of the Board of the Panhellenic Civil Law Association (2020-2023, 2023-today), a Member of the Board of the same Association (2014-2017), a Member of the Research Institute of the Faculty of Law at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for Transparency, Corruption, and Financial Crime, and other scientific associations, while he has also served as a Member of Drafting Committees.
For thirteen (13) years, he has been a Teaching Professor of Law of Obligations at the National School of Judges, and for thirty (30) years at the Faculty of Law of the 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 to Commentaries on the Law of Obligations and has written numerous essays, legal opinions, and comments on judicial awards related to specialized issues of the Law of Obligations, Banking Law, Civil and International Civil Procedure Law, and the Methodology of Law.
He is fluent in Greek and English.
