EU Corporate Tax Law

The course is a four day programme. The agenda is below:

Week One (Thursday 3 July)

• EU Institutions, Governance and Taxation

Week Two (Thursday 10 July)

• Corporate Tax Legislation and Important Cases

Week Three (Thursday 17 July)

• Protection of Taxpayers' Rights (Professor Katerina Perrou)

Week Four (Thursday 24 July)

• Fiscal State Aids (Professor Dimitrios Kyriazis) and Soft Law in EU Tax Law

Christiana HJI Panayi

Christiana HJI Panayi is a Professor in Tax Law at Queen Mary University of London. She teaches on the EU Tax Law, International Tax Law and Transfer Pricing courses of the LLM Programme. Christiana is also a researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a visiting professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University of Notre Dame. In the past, Christiana was also an Adjunct Professor of European Union Tax Law at New York University, a Visiting Professor at Sorbonne University (Ecole de droit de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1), at the University of Luxembourg and at the University of Lausanne. Christiana has published extensively in the area of EU and International Tax Law and is considered a leading expert in her field.

Christiana speaks regularly at tax conferences and teaches abroad. She has lectured at New York University, the University of Cambridge, Boston College, the University of Lausanne, the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the European Commission, the Academy of European Law, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the University of Luxembourg, the University of Amsterdam and various other universities. She has also designed and conducted workshops on International and EU tax law for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the UK Treasury and various south European organizations and accounting firms. In October 2024, Christiana testified as an expert at the FISC Committee of the European Parliament.

Christiana has been appointed twice as an expert member at the European Commission’s Joint Transfer Pricing Forum (JTPF) and the Platform for Tax Good Governance. She is also a member of the CFE’s ECJ Taskforce, a member of the BEPS Monitoring Group, a member of the European Association of Tax Law Professors and a member of the CIOT’s Examination Sub-Committee for the ADIT.

Christiana studied at Oxford University for her BA in Jurisprudence and for the BCL. She also has a PhD from the London School of Economics. Before joining Queen Mary, Christiana worked for Allen and Overy LLP. She is a non-practising solicitor of England and Wales.

Katerina Perrou

Katerina Perrou is Assistant Professor of Public Law (Public Economic Law, Tax Law and Pubic Finance) at the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. She is a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and member of the European Association of Tax Law Professors. She is a lawyer, member of the Athens Bar, and Managing Partner of the Law Firm "K. & K. Perrou Law Firm". Since 2016, she serves as Legal Counsel at the Office of the Governor of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue.

Katerina holds a Law Degree from the Law School of the University of Athens, from which she also received a Master's Degree in Public Law. She holds a PhD in International Tax Law from IALS, University of London (UK). Her PhD thesis, entitled “Taxpayer Participation in Tax Treaty Dispute Resolution”, has been published by the IBFD (2014). She was a post-doctoral researcher in international tax law at the IBFD (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and a Post-doctoral Fellow in Tax Law at the Law School of the University of Athens. She has authored two monographs, she has published extensively in Greek and international scientific journals on various topics of international and European tax law, and she is a frequent speaker at conferences on tax law issues.

Dimitrios Kyriazis

Dimitrios Kyriazis (DPhil, Oxford) is an Assistant Professor of European Union Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher in Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Research Fellow in Law at Northeastern University London, where from 2017 to 2020 he served as Head of the Law Faculty. He has also held the post of Lecturer in Law at Oxford University and Teaching Fellow in Law at UCL.

Dimitrios holds an LLB from the Athens Law School (graduated top of his class), an MJur from Oxford University (graduated top of his class), an MPhil with Distinction from Oxford and a DPhil (PhD) on state aid law, under the supervision of Professor Stephen Weatherill. He has received numerous awards and scholarships for his academic accomplishments, including the Clarendon Scholarship (Oxford’s most competitive scholarship), the Onassis Scholarship, the Clifford Chance Prize, the Light Senior Scholarship, and a PhD grant from the UK’s Chartered Institute of Taxation. He has worked as a lawyer in Athens and Brussels (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) and is considered a leading expert in state aid law.