Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is a Professor of Law & Theory at the University of Westminster and Director of the Westminster Law & Theory Lab, an international research centre in London. He holds professorial affiliations with The Copenhagen Business School, Centre for Management, Politics and Philosophy, and the Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments at IUAV, Venice. His interdisciplinary work bridges law with philosophy, geography, architecture, art, and ecology, employing frameworks like autopoiesis, Deleuzian studies, and object-oriented ontology.

Education:

• LLB from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• LLM from King's College London
• PhD from Birkbeck, University of London

His research explores critical legal theory, sociolegal studies, and their confluence with disciplines such as psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and theology. He also practices performance art and sculpture, exhibiting globally including a performance at the 58th Venice Art Biennale in 2019.

Awards:

• Oxford University Press National Law Teacher of the Year Award (2011)
• IUCN Distinguished Environmental Law Education Global Award (2016)

Advising & Grants: As Doctoral Training Coordinator for Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, he currently supervises six PhD students and has successfully guided 15 others to completion. He welcomes supervision in areas like Law and Art, Spatial Justice, and Environmental Legal Theory. No explicit grants are mentioned in the text.

Labs/Teams: Leads the Westminster Law & Theory Lab, part of the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture. Collaborates with staff and graduate students on research clusters and publications.