Athanasios Mihalakas

Athanasios (Nasos) Mihalakas is a Professor of Practice (Global Law) at the University of Arizona, where he teaches in the OUC-UA legal program. Nasos teaches both US common law courses like Legal Research & Writing, Procedures, and Public Law, as well international law courses like International Trade Law and International Environmental Law. He received his LLM from the University College London, and his JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.  Nasos worked for 10 years in Washington DC as a trade policy analyst and taught International Business-related courses for another 10 years, before joining the UA College of Law faculty.  He is also the Director of the Center for Federalism & Regional Integration (CEFARI), a volunteer collaborative academic research center of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), that organizes conferences and advances cooperative research among academics from around the world.

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Representative Publications

• Mihalakas, Malkawi & Valiullina (Fall 2025, accepted and pending publication with “Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution”) “Regional Integration in North Africa – The Agadir Agreement and the EU”
• Mihalakas & Taylor (2025) "Governance of the Global Commons: The Role of the UN and International Law in Addressing Climate Change," California Western International Law Journal: Vol. 55: No. 2, Article 2 (https://scholarlycommons.law.cwsl.edu/cwilj/vol55/iss2/2)
• Mihalakas & Malkawi (2023, advance article) "Regional Integration in Africa - The Role of the AfCFTA in Advancing Political Integration" (TDM, ISSN 1875-4120) November 2023 (https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/journal-advance-publication-article.asp?key=1999)

• Mihalakas & Hyde “Implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement – Comparing the Approach of China and the EU” Athens Journal of Law-Volume 6, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 407-430 (https://www.athensjournals.gr/law/2020-6-4-6-Mihalakas.pdf)

Education

• LLM University College London
  2005
• JD University of Pittsburgh School of Law
  2001
• BS (Economics & Finance) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  1998

Work Experience

• Professor of Practice (Global Law)
  James E. Rogers College of Law
  2020 - present
• Director & Visiting Research Associate
  Center for Federalism and Regional Integration (CEFARI)
• Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER)
  2019 - present
• Director, Internship Program
  United Nations Association of Rochester
  2018 - 2019
• Assistant Professor for International Business
  SUNY Brockport School of Business & Management
  2012 - 2018
• Policy Analyst - Economics & Trade
  U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Committee, Washington, D.C.
  2008 - 2010
• International Trade Policy Analyst
  U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
  2001 - 2008