Victor P. Tsilonis

Victor P. Tsilonis (also known as "Viktor P. Tsilonis") is an international jurist and Greece's Nominee for the judicial elections of the International Criminal Court, which is based in The Hague, Netherlands. He is also a member of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA), currently serving as the ICCBA Focal Point for Greece[1] and ICCBA Vice President for Victims (2021-2022). In 2019-2020 he was elected in the same position (jointly with Megan Hirst) and served simultaneously as the Chairman of the Professional Standards Advisory Committee. Tsilonis currently serves a four-year term (2018–2022) as an elected ICC Disciplinary Board Alternate Member and has tried four disciplinary cases under this capacity.

Victor P. Tsilonis
Head and shoulders photo of Victor P. Tsilonis
Dr Victor P. Tsilonis is the Greek Judge Nominee for the 2020 ICC Elections.
Born (1976-07-16) July 16, 1976
Thessaloniki, Greece
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham (LL.M.), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (LL.B., PhD)
OccupationPrincipal Legal Counsel / International Jurist
Websitewww.tsilonis.com

Early life and education

Victor P. Tsilonis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 16 July 1976. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B.) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; his Master of Laws Degree (LL.M.) from the University of Nottingham, UK; and his Doctor of Laws (PhD) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.[2]

18-year experience in defending human rights

Tsilonis has been a legal counsel in Greece since 2004.[2] He is the founder and principal barrister of the niche law firm NewLaw and represents clients in criminal procedures and human rights law cases before the Greek courts and authorities.[2] Fourteen of the cases in which he has acted as a legal counsel are accessible through “NOMOS”, a Greek legal database, while several others have attracted the media's attention.[3][4]

ICTY, ICC and academic qualifications

His expertise in the field of international criminal justice dates back to 2004, when he spent six months as a Junior Legal Advisor at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (Milošević Case).[2] He then completed a PhD thesis on “The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court: the Prerequisites for its Exercise” (AUTh, 2016).[5] He is included in the List of Counsel before the International Criminal Court since April 2016.[6]

Teaching international criminal law

He currently teaches the postgraduate course "Criminal Law against Corruption and Financial Crime" at the Hellenic Open University (2022-2023). During the 2018–19 academic year, Tsilonis taught three lectures of the postgraduate course of International Criminal Justice as a visiting lecturer at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace. Moreover, he has also taught as a Research Fellow, Lecturer or Academic Director at the International Hellenic University, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Democritus University of Thrace, the Lord Byron School of Foreign Languages and the Thessaloniki Bar Association, the courses of International Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Criminology, Prisoners’ Rights, Legal Translation, Legal Terminology,[2] and Legal English Skills (TOLES).[7]

International Criminal Court Bar Association

Tsilonis is an internationally recognised expert on international criminal law, included in OSCE Consultancy Roster of Legal Experts (Vienna, 2018) and the Roster of Experts of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy (May 2017).[8] He is a member of the International Criminal Court Bar Association since its foundation in 2016 and the current ICCBA Vice President for Victims (2021-2022). In 2019-2020 he was elected in the same position (jointly with Megan Hirst) and served simultaneously as the Chairman of the Professional Standards Advisory Committee.[8] In November 2022 ICCBA members nominated him for president.

International Law Association and European Society of International Law

He is also a member of the International Law Association (Committee: International Protection of Consumers) and the European Society of International Law.[9]

International Criminal Court

In 2019, Tsilonis was elected as an Alternate Member of the Disciplinary Board of the International Criminal Court.[10] Under this capacity, he has sat as a judge in four disciplinary hearings,[11] and co-drafted the decision in the Case: Disciplinary Complaint against Mr Goran Sluiter in December 2019.[12]

In May 2020, Tsilonis was nominated to be Greece's candidate for the 2020 judicial elections of the International Criminal Court.[13] On 30 September 2020 the Report of the Advisory Committee on Nominations of Judges on the work of its seventh session concluded that “Based on both his professional experience and his answers during the interview, the Committee concluded that the candidate is highly qualified for appointment as Judge of the International Criminal Court".[14]

References
  1. "ICCBA Focal Points". www.iccba-abcpi.org. International Criminal Court Bar Association. 22 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  2. "ICC Judicial Nominee Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). www.icc-cpi.int. International Criminal Court. 22 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  3. Γερακαρίτου, Κάτια. "Β. Ελλάδα: Το εφετείο αθώωσε πρώην εργαζόμενο του ΕΟΤ με πλαστό πτυχίο". Β. Ελλάδα: Το εφετείο αθώωσε πρώην εργαζόμενο του ΕΟΤ με πλαστό πτυχίο. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  4. "Συνέντευξη του Βίκτωρα Τσιλώνη στο OPEN BEYOND για την Απόφαση Ολικής Διαγραφής Χρέους". YouTube.
  5. Tsilonis, Victor (November 22, 2019). "The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court". Springer International Publishing – via www.springer.com.
  6. "List of Counsel Before the ICC". www.icc-cpi.int. International Criminal Court. 15 December 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  7. "Welcome to TOLES®". toleslegal.com. February 12, 2020.
  8. "Statement of Qualifications" (PDF). www.icc-cpi.int. International Criminal Court. 22 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  9. "International Law Association". www.ila-hq.org/. International Law Association. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  10. "Get involved". www.icc-cpi.int. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  11. "The Code of Professional Conduct for ICC Counsel: the interrelation between the ICC disciplinary competence and the counsel's national jurisdiction(s)". October 23, 2019.
  12. "Case: Disciplinary Complaint against Mr Goran Sluiter" (PDF).
  13. "TSILONIS, Viktor Panagiotis". asp.icc-cpi.int. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  14. "Report of the ICC Advisory Committee on Nominations of Judges" (PDF).
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