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Nikolas is both an International Law (IL) and International Relations (IR) scholar. After completing his L.L.B., he became a barrister and solicitor specializing in labour and employment law. Nikolas’ turn to academia began with a scholarship to the Central European University (Budapest), where he completed graduate studies in 2005 and received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award. With the assistance of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nikolas moved to Italy and completed his Ph.D. at the European University Institute (Florence) in 2009. Prior to Kent Law School, he was Assistant Professor at Kyung Hee University (South Korea), a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna), and Jean Monnet Fellow in Global Governance at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (Florence). In 2011 and 2012, he completed the intensive residential program at the Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP). In late 2012, Nikolas was appointed IGLP Docent, contributing to the writing workshop program and, more recently, on a new teaching stream on International Law and International Relations opened at the 2014 Doha workshop. Since 2011, Nikolas has served as Management Committee member and later working group member of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action IS1003 “International Law between Constitutionalisation and Fragmentation: the role of law in the postnational constellation”. He was recently appointed Associated Researcher at the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law (CePTL) of the Faculty of Law, VU Amsterdam.
Nikolas’ has published in leading IL and IR journals such as the Leiden Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Relations, and International Relations. In 2012, his revised Ph.D. dissertation was published as a monograph by Routledge: The Politics of International Law and Compliance. Nikolas’ current research explores both conceptually and empirically the impact that practices of international law have on the constitution and contestation of “legality.”