Dimitrios Kivotidis

Dr. Dimitrios Kivotidis is a Lecturer in the Department of Law at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he has taught since September 2023. His research examines the intersections of Public Law, Human Rights, and Marxist critiques of legal systems, with emphasis on crisis legislation, social change, and constitutional political economy. He previously held academic positions at Birkbeck and Durham University.

Education

• PhD in Law, Birkbeck, University of London (2018)
• LL.M., University of Bristol (2012)
• LL.B., National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2011)

His work critically analyzes democratic processes through lenses of socialist constitutionalism and class struggle. Key publications explore dictatorship as a modality of bourgeois rule, the EU's democratic deficit, and reforms in Greek administrative law. Kivotidis serves on the editorial collective of Legal Form, a forum for Marxist legal analysis.