Dr. Achilles C. Emilianides is an Associate Professor, Head of the Law Department of the University of Nicosia and partner of the Law Firm Achilles & Emile C. Emilianides. He is the editor of the “Cyprus and European Law Review”, the Director of the “Cyprus Institute of State and Church Relations”, and the President of the ‘‘Centre of Scientific Dialogue and Research’’. He has received the Anny Tsatsos award from the Centre of European Constitutional Law in Athens. Major publications include: Religious Freedom in the European Union (Peters, 2011), Law and Religion in Cyprus (Kluwer: 2010), Welfare of the Child and Beliefs of the Parents (University of Nicosia: 2010), The New European Private International Law of Contracts (2009 in Greek), Cypriot Succession Law (2008 in Greek), Cypriot Law of Public Procurement (2007 in Greek), Professional Law of Advocates (2007 in Greek), Parliamentary History of Cyprus 1964 – 1976 (2007 in Greek), E-Voting (2007, in Greek), Beyond the Cyprus Constitution (2006 in Greek), The Cypriot Law of Marriage and Divorce (2006 in Greek), Bibliography of Cyprus Law (2005), The Parliamentary Co-Existence of Greeks and Turks in Cyprus (2003 in Greek).

IAKOVOS FARSEDAKIS is an Emeritus Professor of Criminology, Panteion University of Athens and the Chair of the Law Department of the European University of Cyprus. He is the Vice President of President, A.I.C.L.F., International Association of French Speaking Criminologists (Geneva); Secretary, Scientific Commission International Society of Criminology (Paris) ; Editor of the "Criminal Justice" Review (monthly "Criminology" Review (bi-annual) and "Hellenic Review of Criminology"(bi-annual). He finished law National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ; postgraduate at the D.E.S. Higher European Studies (University of Strasbourg), D.E.S. Comparative Law (University of Strasbourg); D.E.S. History of Law and of Social Facts (University of Strasbourg); Ph.D.: Doctorat d'État en Droit (LL.D) (Faculty of Law, University of Strasbourg).

Professor Farsedakis is also a Professor of Criminology at the Greek Police Academy, Cyprus Police Academy; Director of the Greek Center of Criminology; Secretary General of the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights ; Secretary of the Scientific Commission, International Society of Criminology (Paris) ; Consultant, United Nations, Council of Europe, European Union, Greek Parliament and Greek Governments ; Member of Law Reform Commissions; National Representative of Greece to the E.U. Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN); and author or co-author of eighteen (18) Books and of a great number of Articles. See: Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Essays in Honour of Professor James Farsedakis, Vol. I and II, Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2011, Vol.I, pp. LXVII-LXXIV.