Costas Douzinas
Costas Douzinas is a law professor at Birkbeck University, London, where he has lived since having left Greece in 1974. A regular columnist on Greek issues for The Guardian, he is well known for his work in Human Rights, Aesthetics, Postmodern Legal Theory and Political Philosophy. His books include The End of Human Rights (Hart, 2000) and Human Rights and Empire (Routledge-Cavendish, 2007).
Updated: 16 June 2011
After two days of massive strikes and street battles, Greece seems to be edging ever closer to the brink. As European leaders gather this Sunday in a last ditch bid to save the euro, a Greek author condemns the national elites that have brought his country to this juncture. 
While Greece’s PM George Panpandreou struggles to push through a second round of crippling austerity measures, the capital’s Syntagma Square has become a model of direct democracy, writes a Greek columnist, where Athenians of all ideologies, ages, occupations come to express their outrage.