Dr Napoleon Xanthoulis

Research groups

Research interests

• Constitutional and administrative law
• Law, policy and governance of the Economic and Monetary Union
• EU Financial Regulation
• Privacy and data protection law
• Law and information technology

Current research

Currently Napoleon is co-Principal Investigator of the Cross-Border Data Protection Network (CROSS-DPN), a project jointly funded by the Economic & Social Research Council and the Irish Research Council (2021-2022).

Furthermore, he supervises a project on ¡®The Rule of Law in the EU¡¯ jointly organised by the European University Institute, King¡¯s College London, the University of Portsmouth¡¯.

In 2021, he was invited by the Greek Ministry of Finance to participate in a legislative drafting committee for the reform of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission.

Part of his research focuses on the governance of the Economic and Monetary Union exploring aspects of judicial protection and institutional balance. He has published on the nature and effect of the conduct of the European Central Bank as well as the regulation and accountability in the European Banking Union. In 2017 he co-supervised a project on the legal accountability of the European Central Bank for public announcements, as part of the ECB Legal Research Programme.

Research projects