The Cyprus-born legal scholar is also President of the American Society of Comparative Law and former dean at Willamette.

[4] Symeonides then moved to the United States and attended Harvard Law School where he earned two degrees.

[2] While a professor he served as U.S. National Reporter to the International Congress of Comparative Law in 1994, and as Rapporteur Général in 1998.

[4] In March 1999, Symeon C. Symeonides was hired as the dean at Willamette University’s law school located in Salem, Oregon,[6] and served in the position from July 1999–February 2011.

[4] Symeonides resigned as dean at Willamette in February 2011, effective at the end of the academic year and was succeeded by Peter Letsou.