Spetses, Greece
Study Abroad Spetses: June 15 – 28, 2025
Positioned strategically between East and West, near the crossroads of Europe and Asia, and being a member of the European Union since 1981, Greece is ideally situated as a microcosm of current legal issues. Spetses is the ideal place to observe the gap between rich, represented by wealthy Greek weekenders, and working class, exemplified by the year-round residents who are struggling with newly imposed austerity measures.
This program has been designed to examine legal, economic, cultural, and social issues in both an academic and experiential way.
Our Spetses, Greece program is currently ABA accredited.
If you have any questions, please contact the Spetses Teaching Assistants at spetses@loyno.edu.
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Comparative Incarceration Law (1 credit hour)
Instructor: Andrea Armstrong – Dr. Norman C. Francis Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Class Dates: June 16-20 & 23-27, 2025
Location: Spetses Hotel
Time: 9:00 – 10:10 AM
Final Exam: Saturday, June 28, 2025
This course will examine the contours of incarceration globally, focusing on conditions of confinement and the laws that shape those conditions. Students will contrast and compare U.S. Eighth Amendment doctrine governing conditions in prisons with international and European human rights treaties, as well as materials on incarceration from Kenya, England/Wales, South Africa, Thailand and others. Students will be evaluated based on a final small group presentation that adopts a comparative lens on conditions of confinement in an assigned country.
Comparative Maritime Law (1 credit hour)
Instructor: Benjamin Allums – Assistant Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Class Dates: June 16-20 & 23-27, 2025
Location: Spetses Hotel
Time: 9:00 – 10:10 AM
Final Exam: Saturday, June 28, 2025
From iPads to automobiles, corn syrup to crude oil, over 90% of international trade occurs by ocean carriage. Consequently, shipping is perhaps the most international of the world’s great industries. It is also one of the most dangerous. This course will explore the varying approaches to certain maritime issues under international conventions and United States law. Topics may include marine pollution, limitation of liability, and carriage of goods by sea.
Art Law & Cultural Property Protection (1 credit hour)
Instructor: Anastasia Grammaticaki Alexiou – Professor Emerita of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Class Dates: June 16-20 & 23-27, 2025
Location: Spetses Hotel
Time: 10:20 – 11:30 AM
Final Exam: Saturday, June 28, 2025
This course aims to equip students with a sound working knowledge and understanding of key legal issues required in order to operate successfully in the arts market. It will cover the problem of licit and illicit art trade as well as the basic framework for the international protection of cultural property. More specifically, the roles and responsibilities of artists and professional managers in relation to artwork transactions, the protection of artists’ rights, the role of collectors, international art auctions of cultural objects, theft and looting of art objects, bona fide acquisition of stolen art, repatriation/restitution and return of stolen or looted art will be basically the topics to be discussed.
Comparative Criminal Jury Administration (1 credit hour)
Instructor: Professor William Snowden – Assistant Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Class Dates: June 16-20 & 23-27, 2025
Location: Spetses Hotel
Time: 10:20 – 11:30 AM
Final Exam: Saturday, June 28, 2025
This course will review and examine the use of jurors in criminal trials globally. Students will compare and contrast the United States Constitution's Sixth Amendment guaranteeing a right to a fair and impartial jury with the right to a jury trial, or lack thereof, in countries like Argentina, Greece, Germany and others. Students will be evaluated based on a final small group presentation reviewing the benefits and potential harms of an assigned country's access, or lack thereof, to a criminal jury trial.
Comparative Judicial Process (1 credit hour)
Instructor: The Honorable Scott U. Schlegel – Judge, Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, Division F
Class Dates: June 16-20 & 23-27, 2025
Location: Spetses Hotel
Time: 11:40 AM – 12:50 PM
Final Exam: Saturday, June 28, 2025
This seminar will analyze and compare facets of the judicial process of different nations, including issues such as the use of technology by courts and the lawyers who appear before the courts, sources of law and weight of authority, selection and staffing of courts, roles of judges and lawyers, use of juries, forum shopping, collective and class actions, and how all of these facets of the systems are influenced by the legal cultures in which they operate.
Upon arrival in Spetses on Sunday, June 15, 2025, students will enjoy a welcome reception, an orientation, and a group dinner at the Spetses Hotel.
On Monday, June 16, 2025, students will enjoy a tour of Spetses by boat + a group dinner at a traditional beachside taverna. Also included in this tour is a chance to take a brief hike to Bekiri’s Cave, one of Spetses’ major attractions.
There will be a classical one-day excursion to the ancient Theater of Epidaurus and Nafplion, the first capital of Greece on Saturday, June 21, 2025.
Students will have the opportunity to participate in a series of cultural tours in Spetses, including an experience at the Monastery of Aghioi Pandes and a visit to the Bouboulina's Museum. These events will either take place at the hotel or within walking distance of the hotel.
The program also offers guest visits from Greek lawyers and an historian.
Spetses Accommodations and Class Space
Housing will be based at the Spetses Hotel, located a 10-minute walk away from the port and center of the island, Dapia. The 4-star hotel offers 77 standard and premium rooms in two buildings. All rooms include an ensuite bathroom, hot water, air conditioning, a mini bar and small refrigerator, a telephone, and a hairdryer. The Spetses Hotel offers free high speed wireless internet service. The hotel has its own private beach area.
Classes will also be held at the Spetses Hotel. The hotel offers two conference rooms that can accommodate 50 or 15 people respectively. The conference rooms offer big screens, slide projectors, a PowerPoint projector, a video projector, anatomical seats, white boards, flip charts, laser pointers, audiovisual equipment, wireless internet connection and air-conditioning for a clear atmosphere.
Students will have ample space to study. There are numerous lounge areas in the hotel, as well as pleasant outdoor areas, conducive to study. The classrooms will be available every afternoon and evening for studying. Also, all hotel rooms are equipped with free WiFi internet access.
Administrative services will be provided on-site. An office for the program will be provided on-site with computer facilities, and room for a modest library, although it is expected that all reading materials for courses will be self-contained.
There will also be two teaching assistants and a law school administrator on-site to assist students during classroom and office hours.
The Spetses Hotel has its own restaurant, with two meals per day included in the Loyola room rate (breakfast and your choice of lunch or dinner.)
2025 Room Rates
Standard (partial sea view) Single Room: 159€
Sea-view Single Room (limited availability): 268€
Standard (partial sea view) Double Room: 112€ per person
Sea-view Double Room (limited availability): 166€ per person
Standard (partial sea view) Triple Room: 99€ per person
Sea-view Triple Room (limited availability): 143€ per person
Mandatory Forms
Content forthcoming March 2025.
Handbook
Content forthcoming March 2025.