He became a Visiting Professor of the Institute for Social Justice, Sydney, in 2014, and of the School of Politics, PUC-Rio de Janeiro in 2011.
Douzinas is well known for his work in human rights, aesthetics, critical jurisprudence, postmodern legal theory and political philosophy.
He was deeply involved in the British Critical Legal Studies Movement from the outset and was part of the team which set up the Birkbeck School of Law.
He was involved in setting up Law and Critique: The International Journal of Critical Legal Thought and has been its managing editor since 2000.
In 2015, Douzinas was elected member of Hellenic Parliament for SYRIZA, the Coalition of the Radical Left and President of the Permanent Committee of National Defence and Foreign Affairs.