Georgios Lianos
Position
Managing Partner
Areas of expertise
Sports law
Professional experience
Lawyer at the Supreme Court, 2011-today
Legal Counsel of the Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association (Greek Basketball League), 2025-today
Legal Counsel of sports federations, sports clubs, coaches, and athletes, 2011-today
Arbitrator at the European Handball Court of Arbitration, 2023-today
Academic experience - Courses
Adjunct Lecturer of Sports Law at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2025-today
Teaching assignments at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Law School, 2021-today
Authorized Professor of sports law at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord-IdEF, 2020-2024
Scientific activities
Editor in Chief at Sports Law Journal “Sport & The Law”, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 9 volumes, 2023-today
Coordinator of digitisation and registration of more than 240 decisions of the Supreme Council for Resolution of Sports Disputes (ASEAD) with the QUALEX legal database, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2023-today
Member of the International Sport Lawyers Association, 2026-today
Publications - Monographs
Sports self-governance, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2020
Publications - Studies/Articles
Judicial protection against the Registry of Sports Clubs, Lawspot.gr, 2026
Correct legal classification of coaches’ successive contracts, Lawspot.gr, 2025
The freedom of practising the profession of coach in the light of EU law, ISLR Pandektis, 1-2/2024
Legal status for the selection of athletes for National Teams, Sport & The Law, 2023, 310
SLAPPs and freedom of speech in sports, The Lawyer, 2023, 52
The legal status of e-sports, Sport & The Law, 2023, 170
Civil liability in sports, Sport & The Law, 2023, 23
Sportsmanship, Ethics and Deontology Committee (EFIPID), Applications of Public Law, 2022, 188
State recognition of national sports federations, Theory & Praxis of Administrative Law, 2022, 384
Athletes’ transfers for serious grounds, Lawspot.gr, 2020
Shared responsibility of administrators of sports legal entities, Lawspot.gr, 2020
Private sports centers and private sports schools, Lawspot.gr, 2020
Distinguished athletes’ privileges, Lawspot.gr, 2020
Publications - Commentaries
Towards a sports law doctrine, Commentary on the decision 777/2025 of the Administrative Court of Athens, Nomiko Bima, 2026, 1
Judicial protection against the Registry of Sports Clubs of the General Secretariat of Sports, Commentary on the decision 127/2023 of the Administrative Court of Athens (in Council), Sports & The Law, 1/2024
Publications - Book reviews
Participation in conferences/seminars
The freedom of practising the profession of coach in the light of EU law, IASL, 2024
Legal dimension of athletes: Rights and obligations, Hellenic Professional Basketball Players Association, 2024
Sports law legislation following recent amendments up until Law 4831/2021, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2021
Sports arbitration and meditation, Hellenic Center of Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2021
Elections of sports legal entities-Electronic registry of sports associations, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2020
Academic status
Post-Doc in civil law at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2026
Dr. iur. in civil law at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2020
LL.M. in civil law at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2012
LL.B. in law at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2009
Languages
English
French
