Private Law Theory

Konstantinos D Kerameus (1937–2021), an outstanding teacher, who could fill his students with a creative power, occupies a position as one of the distinguished scholars in the field of international and comparative civil procedural law in our age. He has received a widespread international recognition. He derived profit from studying under Charalambos Fragistas in Thessaloniki (1955-1960) and Arwed Blomeyer in Berlin (1960-1962). With his precious and penetrating studies excited the interest to research on the judicial process. His well established and profound studies still affect both doctrinal and judicial opinions. He is accepted as an authority on applying rules of reasonable interpretation with reference to procedural institutions. In my judgment Kerameus’ study on Institutionenschutz und Fallgerechtigkeit, in Festschrift G Rammos (Athens 1979), constitutes a comprehensive analysis of the judicial process as the forum for a struggle between conflicting interests and values. Kerameus tried to reconcile these opposites with his highly qualified intellectual capacity of understanding the heart of the matter under discussion together with the charisma of the well-established synthetic reasoning …

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Dimitris N Maniotis, Konstantinos Kerameus and the Civil Procedural Unification in Europe, European Review of Private Law, volume 32, issue 1, pp 3-8 (2024).