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Research interests
Ioannis Kampourakis is Associate Professor of Law and Markets at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research examines the legal foundations of economic power, drawing on legal theory, political economy, and transnational law. He is particularly interested in how law constitutes markets and the conditions under which it might serve as a vehicle for socio-economic transformation.
His current project focuses on the law and political economy of the green transition. In 2023, he was awarded the 3-year NWO Veni grant to research the implications of the EU regulation of Critical Raw Materials and the shift to industrial policy and market instrumentalism under the European Green Deal.
Ioannis is a co-director of the project 'Law and Political Economy in Europe'. He serves as an editor of the Law and Political Economy book series published by Cambridge University Press, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Law and Political Economy. His research has appeared in journals such as Modern Law Review, Regulation & Governance, Leiden Journal of International Law, European Law Open, and Yale Journal of International Law.
Before joining Erasmus, Ioannis held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. He has also held visiting positions at institutions including the University of Glasgow, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, and the University of Johannesburg.
Ioannis holds a PhD in Law from the Free University of Berlin, a Master’s in Public Law from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and an LLB from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A Post-Neoliberal European Order? Public Purpose and Private Accumulation in Green Industrial Policy
Kampourakis, I., Jul 2025, In: Modern Law Review. 88, 4, p. 769-803 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: From governance gaps to root causes
Kampourakis, I. & Lane, L., 1 Sept 2025, In: Leiden Journal of International Law. 38, 3, p. 417-432 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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The market as an instrument of planning in sustainability capitalism
Kampourakis, I., 5 Sept 2023, In: European Law Open. 2, 3, p. 511-542 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Bound by the Economic Constitution: Notes for “Law and Political Economy” in Europe
Kampourakis, I., 2021, In: Journal of Law and Political Economy. 1, 2, p. 301-332 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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The Postmodern Legal Ordering of the Economy
Kampourakis, I., 1 Jan 2021, In: Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. 28, 1, p. 101-152 52 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Activities
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Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and the Legal Rationalities of the European Green Deal
Kampourakis, I. (Speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Academic
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Economic Democracy Through Public Power: Planning Within and Beyond Markets
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2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Academic
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Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and the Legal Rationalities of the European Green Deal
Kampourakis, I. (Speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Academic
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The Intellectual History of Human Rights Due Diligence
Kampourakis, I. (Speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Academic
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Transnational Rule of Law through Human Rights Due Diligence
Kampourakis, I. (Speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Academic
Press/Media
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Will the Demand for Critical Raw Materials Transform the Political Economy of the EU?
7/09/23
1 item of Media coverage
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Twelve Veni grants for Rotterdam researchers
Kampourakis, I., Bauer, L., Romano, V., Chaker, L. & Jonkman, A.
7/08/23
1 item of Media coverage
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Twelve Veni grants awarded to RSM and EUR scientists
Kampourakis, I., Bauer, L., Gabel, S., Romano, V., Chaker, L. & Jonkman, A.
4/08/23
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Can Rights Combat Economic Inequality?
10/04/20
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