Grigorios (Grigoris) Bacharis is a Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a PhD in private and competition law from the European University Institute (EUI), where his thesis analysed the interaction between competition damages claims and tort law from the perspective of private law theory. Grigoris obtained an LLM degree (with distinction) from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and holds a Bachelor of Law (first in year) and a master's degree in Private, Labour, and Civil Procedure Law (with distinction) from the University of Thessaloniki. He is an editor of the European Journal of Legal Studies and has been the EUI Private Law Working Group coordinator and a visiting researcher at Columbia Law School. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, he worked as a lawyer in Greece, a Bluebook trainee at the European Commission, and as a Fellow in Law at the LSE Law School.

His current research focuses on (a) civil procedural law in Greece after the Greek Financial Crisis, especially concerning auctions and the enforcement of civil judgments; b) the private enforcement of public law in Greece (c) collective damages claims in Greece; and (d) the future development of Greek and EU private law from a theoretical perspective.

Research interests: Greek civil and civil procedural law from a comparative perspective, competition law, EU law, and legal theory.