Full Biography
Emmanouil is a member of our firm’s Dispute Resolution department. He specialises in international commercial arbitration and litigation of civil and commercial disputes. Emmanouil has extensive experience representing clients before arbitral tribunals and state courts in complex cases involving contract law, corporate law, energy law, and tort. His practice also includes setting-aside proceedings against arbitral awards and proceedings for the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards.
His doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Law of Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg, titled The Prohibition of Revisiting the Merits in International Commercial Arbitration, was awarded in 2022 the German Arbitration Institute’s (DIS) award for outstanding dissertations in the field of arbitration law. He regularly publishes in leading Greek and international legal journals across the fields of arbitration and civil procedure. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Chronika Dikonomikou Dikaiou (Chronicles of Civil Procedure).
Alongside his legal practice, since 2022 he has been repeatedly appointed to teach Civil Procedure and Arbitration Law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at the Faculty of Law of the Democritus University of Thrace.
He has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 2017 and joined our firm in 2022. Emmanouil is admitted before the Court of Appeal.
Selected publications
Monographs
Das Verbot der révision au fond im internationalen Handelsschiedsverfahren. Zur Bindung des staatlichen Gerichts an die schiedsgerichtlichen Sachverhaltsfeststellungen und zu den erforderlichen Ausnahmen (The prohibition of revisiting the merits of the case in International Commercial Arbitration: On the binding effect of the arbitrators’ findings of fact and necessary exceptions), Tübingen 2021.
Selected Articles
Am Erlassort wegen sachlicher Unrichtigkeit aufgehobene ausländische Schiedssprüche: Gedanken zur Anerkennung und Vollstreckbarerklärung (Foreign arbitral awards set aside at the Seat for material incorrectness: Thoughts on Recognition and Enforcement), SchiedsVZ 2023/4, 203–208.
Der ordre public im deutschen Recht der internationalen Handelsschiedsgerichsbarkeit (Public Policy in German law of international commercial arbitration), in: Collective Work, Oi arches to isou kai tou dikaiou, Sakkoulas Publications Athens–Thessaloniki 2023, pp. 753–774.
Disputes Arising from Condominium Ownership: Procedural Requirements and Preliminary Issues, EPolD 2022/1, 37–50.
Justizsyllogismus: Drei Schritte zur Entscheidungsfindung – Zur Richtigkeitsprüfung des Untersatzes (Judicial Syllogism: Three Steps to Decision-Making – On the correctness of the Minor Premise), in: Liber Amicorum for Dimitrios Maniotis, Thessaloniki 2021, pp. 613–627.
Objective arbitrability in international commercial arbitration: Distinguishing between matters covered by the arbitration agreement and the subject-matter of the dispute, Diaitisia 2019/3, 291–316.
The doctrine of Manifest Disregard of the law in U.S. international commercial arbitration law, Diaitisia 2019/2, 165–188.
Smart arbitration: Online dispute resolution of smart contract disputes in the age of blockchains, Diaitisia 2018/4, 470–499
Emmanouil has also published several comments on Greek and German court decisions concerning arbitration law and civil procedure law.
