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Georgios Dimitropoulos is Professor of Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), where he holds the World Trade Organization (WTO) Chair and has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Research, as well as the S.J.D. Program Coordinator. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar.
His research focuses on international trade law and adjudication, digital law and policy, and special jurisdictions, particularly special economic zones and international commercial courts. Across these fields, his work explores the changing boundaries between domestic and international law, and the transformation of economic sovereignty and governance in the context of digitalization and geoeconomics. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of International Economic Law, World Trade Review, Cornell International Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, and Washington Law Review.
Professor Dimitropoulos is the Lead Principal Investigator of the Industrial Policy for Digital Development research project. He is also Co-Chair of the International Law and Technology Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of World Investment & Trade and the Asia Pacific Law Review.
He holds an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School and an LL.M. and Ph.D. from Heidelberg University. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg and a Hauser Research Scholar at New York University School of Law. He has held visiting academic appointments at several institutions in Asia, the US and Europe.