Ioannis Skandalis is an Associate Professor in labour law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a barrister before the Supreme Court of Greece and Collective Disputes Mediator before the Greek Organisation of Mediation and Arbitration (OMED). Academically, he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses of labour law and he is also supervisor of PhD students;whilst, as a lawyer he has extensive legal experience in complex labour issues, such as in cases of cross border mergers and transfers of undertakings, consulting in labour cases of the pharmaceutical and banking industries, in the field of communication, transportation etc. He has completed his undergraduate studies at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and his graduate and doctoral studies at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as the Law School of the University of Oxford. In particular, he has been awarded with the following academic titles: Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Law (2013), Postgraduate Research Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Law (2009), Postgraduate degree Magister Juris (MJur) (2008) by the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford, as well as the Postgraduate degree (L.LM) Labour Law (1st class - ‘Excellent’- Av. Grade : 9.5/10) (2007) and the undergraduate Degree in law (1st class - ‘Excellent’- Av. Grade: 8.64/10) (2006) by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His current research focus embraces the following issues: “The evolution of the notion of subordination in modern labour law”, “The adoption of effective mechanisms so as to safeguard the respect of working time in digital labour market”, as well as “the evaluation of the role of social clauses in transnational commercial agreements so as to safeguard the adherence to basic labour standards within global economy”. He is the author of four monographs: “Posting of employees within the European Union”, (Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2025), “Employees’ participation to the management bodies of companies. As a form of the institution of participation” (Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2023) (in Greek, together with Professor Ioannis Koukiadis), “Working Time: Its delimitation to contemporary Labour Law” (P.N. Sakkoulas, 2017) (in Greek), «Balancing Employer and Employee Interests: Legitimate Expectations and Proportionality under the Acquired Rights Directive» (P.N. Sakkoulas, 2016). He has also written a number of articles and contributions to collective titles, the most recent of which are the following: “Critical analysis of Directive 2024/2831 on the improvement of the working conditions of platform workers and its estimated impacts on Greek law” (DEE 2025, pp. 450-471), “The economically dependent self-employed individuals”, (DEN 2024, pp. 334 – 348), “Critical approach to the changes effected by law 5053/2023 to working time”, (Greek Justice 2024, pp. 39-49).