SPEAKERS
(Alphabetical Order by Surname)
Mr. Anthony Amaechi. International Team member. National Offender Management Service (NOMS). United Kingdom
Dr. Athanasia Antonopoulou Associate Secretary of the Central Scientific Council for the Prevention of and Response to Juvenile Victimization and Juvenile Criminality, (KESATHEA), Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights. Greece Dr. Athanasia Antonopoulou holds the position of Associate Secretary of KESATHEA, an honorary and pro-bono position given to her by the Greek Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights with Ministerial Decision no 86756/258-2010. She is a lawyer, member of the Bar Association of Thessaloniki since 2002. She is a Philosophy Doctor of Law, on the field of Crime Policy and Criminology, for which she had been awarded with a scholarship by the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece (IKY). She is a scientific partner of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, School of Law, Economic and Political Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, working as a coordinator and senior researcher in European research programmes. She also teaches Criminology at the Police Academy of Greece (Department of Northern Greece).
Ms. Dominique Attias Lawyer, Member of the National Council of Barreaux, Head of the Legal minors group, Former member of the Council of order, Head of the Antenna minors, Delegate for actions for juvenile justice. France Dominique is a lawyer at Paris Barreau since 1981. She is currently Member of Conseil National des Barreaux, Head of Group Law on minors, former Board member of the Paris Barreau Order, Delegate of the President for the year
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2011/2012 to actions for the juvenile justice, head of the minors of the Paris Barreau. She is also currently a member by ministerial orders: National Council of legal aid (CNAJ) (ceased on 23.03.2010); National Observatory of delinquency and criminal responses (ONDRP) (ceased on 06.05.2010); National Board of victims assistance (CNAV) (ceased on 03.12.2010). She is as well Expert with the Consultative Council of European law societies (CCBE). She is an associated lawyer of the SCP ATTIAS & JAUZE firm since 1981, on the specialised cabinet in commercial leases, professionals, housing; Right customs and foreign exchange; Succession and family law. At the same time, she has chosen for these last fifteen years to be a children’s lawyer, member of the minors’ Antenna of the Paris Barreau. From 2007 to 2010 she was elected member of the Council of the order of lawyers of the Paris Barreau: head of minors (children’s lawyers group), responsible for the Legal Assistance, Access to the Law, Member of the Commission of Criminal Law and the International Commission in charge of a special mission for the Observatory of pro bono. Her different responsibilities led her to Colombia to both, the Lawyer’s Caravan and the two following years for the training of life threatened lawyers in Colombia. Her investment on the Paris Barreau in pro bono took her to many European countries. She is very active in France with the aim of protecting children’s rights. She is in charge of formation in the area of children’s rights with : the National School of Magristrates (ENM), the Barreau Training School (EFB), the Lawyers’ Training School of the Centre-South (EFACS). She is continuously working with juvenile justice in the media (Internet, TV, radio channels, newspapers) and has written extensively on minors in various journals. Dominique has done a Masters in Law (University of Paris II). She is University Post-graduate (DESU) on “practices with migrant families” and has a Diploma of Advanced Studies in “clinical psychology and physiopathology”. Her thesis theme was “the children’s lawyer in ethnopsychiatry filter” (University of Paris VIII). Spoken languages: French, Spanish, English.
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