27 Mar 2015
Loukakis is currently a doctoral candidate and assistant researcher at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg. He received a Master of Laws (LL.M) in European Law from the University of Maastricht (Netherlands), in April 2011 and a Law degree from Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), in December 2007. Moreover, he also was a Robert Schuman Scholar in the legal service of the European Parliament in Brussels from March until August 2011.
Since February 2012, Loukakis has been working on a doctoral research project dealing with the liability aspects of space-based services under the supervision of Professor Mahulena Hofmann, SES Chair in Satellite Communications and Media Law at the University of Luxembourg, delving in particular into the non-contractual civil liabilities that could come into play from the operation of the Galileo program, the European Union’s initiative in field of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Loukakis will visit the University of Nebraska College of Law Space, Cyber and Telecommunications Law program, in April of this year. During this visit, he will conduct a part of his research activities for his doctoral project on issues related to responsibility and liability connected to the provision of GPS services, the US corollary to Galileo, taking into account that GPS is operated by the United States’ Department of Defense. For example, in the foreseeable future, GNSS receivers will be expected to be interoperable, meaning that they will be able to receive and exploit signals emitted from both Galileo and GPS.