Christiana Aristidou – Partner – Lawyer

christianaimageblackandwhite Born in Limassol – Cyprus.
Admitted to Cyprus Bar Association 1997.
Became a Partner in the Law Firm in 2002
Head of the Corporate, Commercial, Intellectual Property & Business Department of the Firm.

Education:

Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece 1988 – 1993,

Masters (LL.M) in Common Law (UEA 1994 – 1995),

Masters (LL.M) in International Commercial & Business Law (UEA) 1995 – 1996 (subjects: International Commercial Arbitration, European Commercial Law, Carriage of goods by sea and other means, International Business Taxation)

Masters (LL.M) in Computer and Telecommunications Law which includes subjects like Intellectual Property as it relates to computer and communications Law, European Telecommunications Law, Internet Content Regulation, Information Security Law, Internet Jurisdiction, Online Dispute Resolution, Online Banking and Financial services, Privacy and Data Protection Law, Trade Marks and Domain Names, Protection of computer software, Taxation of e- Commerce, Information Technology Outsourcing, Computer Crime, Competition Law and ICT (currently reading).

Memberships:

Member of the Committee of The Special Interest Group on Information Technology Law (SIG)

Member of the Franchise Association of Greece

Member of the Cyprus Computer Society

Member of YIAG which is the Young International Arbitration Group of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)

Member of DISS German Arbitration Centre and DISS 40 (German Young Arbitration Group)

Member of the Organisation for the promotion of Women in Europe

Member and one of the Directors of “THEMIS” a non-profitable company which organizes law seminars and other related events in Cyrpus and around the world.

Lecturer at Limassol Educational Centre

Author of:

Analysis of the various methods of interpreting the Greek Constitution, 1989

The duty of care and professional Negligence, SEPTEMBER 1995

State Aids in the European Community, OCTOBER 1996

The notion of Consideration in Contract Law, 1998

Contractual Capacity, 2000

E-Commerce and Community Law- Council Directive 2000/31/EC, Cyprus Law 156(I)/2004, 2004

Will a Database be considered as being utilized as a result of “deep-linking” or “framing” and thus constitute an infringement of the sui generis database right?, April 2005