Athens Law School

Politicians across the spectrum are paying their respects to Stavros Tsakyrakis, the eminent law professor and anti-junta activist, who lost his battle with cancer on Friday night at the age of 67.

A council of appeals court judges in Larissa, central Greece, on Tuesday rejected a request from Turkey for the extradition of Agarmis Burak, an Athens Law School student arrested in November along with another eight Turkish nationals accused by Ankara of being members of the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).

The cry of despair let out by professors at the Athens Law School must be heeded by all relevant authorities.

Desperate professors at the Athens Law School issued a letter Tuesday to all competent authorities protesting the prevalent state of lawlessness on the premises of the emblematic institution.

Police in the downtown Athens neighborhood of Exarchia are on standby following clashes with self-styled anarchists in the early hours of Saturday.

According to police, a group of around 40 people emerged from the Athens Law School at around 4.30 a.m on Saturday and set fire to dumpsters, torched a car and vandalized other parked vehicles.

A brief glance at this last week: Unidentified vandals break into the capital's Panteion University; students are assaulted at Athens Law School; an armed robbery at the Agricultural University of Athens; shots outside the Athens Court of Appeals; a fistfight in the Attica Regional Authority's council meeting; a cabinet minister makes an obscene gesture while attending a water polo game… And th

A union representing Athens Law School students on Tuesday called on academic authorities to intervene to prevent violence on university grounds after a student was assaulted following a lesson on Monday.

Members of the Rouvikonas anarchist group entered the head office of the Athens Law School in central Athens on Wednesday morning and temporarily occupied it before leaving at 12.30 p.m.

Police made 56 arrests on Friday during a large-scale operation aimed at criminal gangs peddling drugs in central Athens, including the areas around Athens University, the City of Athens Cultural Center, the Athens Law School, and Kaningos, Victoria and Amerikis squares.

Fifty-four of the 56 suspects arrested were foreign nationals.

Forty three years ago today, Greek tanks broke down the main gate of the Athens Polytechnic, killing students and marking the start of the end of the seven-year dictatorship that had begun on April 21, 1967.