DR GERASSIMOS FOURLANOS Doctor Of Laws, Uppsla University, Sweden

About Dr Gerassimos Fourlanos

Dr Gerassimos Fourlanos is a Greek/Swedish lawyer, a holder of a Doctorate in International Law from the University of Uppsala. His background includes legal practice in Greece and Sweden and more than 25 years of academic and professional experience under several legal systems and working environments.

Dr Fourlanos started his international career in 1985 as an employee of different UN agencies. In 2003 he became a Programme Manager with EU in Skopje, North Macedonia, in charge of the justice portfolio, which included 14 different projects. Since 2005 Dr Fourlanos is working as a consultant in justice- and legal reform projects, financed by EC, UN, the World Bank and other international donors. He has gained considerable experience in project- and programme design and management and has worked in Greece, Sweden, North Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Ethiopia, Armenia, Zimbabwe and Malawi for various periods of time, ranging from a few weeks to several years.

Having worked in the most diverse environments, Dr Fourlanos has acquired a profoundly comparative perspective on jurisprudence. This leads almost automatically to a critical analysis of the Law from the point of view of lex ferenda, which is often missing today. Legislative drafting, in particular, ought to benefit immensely from studying the Law de lege ferenda and conducting regulatory impact assessments to that effect.