Athanasios (Akis) Psygkas is an Associate Professor at Western Law, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2021. His research and teaching interests include comparative public law, law of democracy, regulation and governance. His latest book, entitled From the ‘Democratic Deficit’ to a ‘Democratic Surplus’: Constructing Administrative Democracy in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2017), examines the impact of European Union law on the adoption of participatory regulatory processes at the member-state level. The book was the runner-up for the 2019 SLSA Theory and History Book Prize. In July 2025, Akis was appointed a Western University Faculty Scholar for a two-year term, in recognition of "outstanding scholarly achievements at the mid-career stage."

Akis received his J.S.D. degree from Yale Law School. He also holds an LL.B. and an LL.M. in Public Law and Political Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as an LL.M. from Yale Law School where he was a Fulbright scholar.

Prior to his appointment at Western University, Akis was a faculty member at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. He has held visiting positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2025-2026), University College London (2025), the Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (2022, 2023, 2024), the University of Milan-Bicocca (2022), the University of Toronto (2017-2018), the European University Institute in Florence (Max Weber Fellowship, 2013-2014) and the Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris (Fox International Fellowship, 2010-2011). From January to July 2009, he was the Oscar M. Ruebhausen visiting research fellow at Yale Law School and was involved in the Comparative Administrative Law Initiative, where he has been managing the Comparative Administrative Law Blog since 2009.

Akis has published in the areas of comparative public law, policy and governance. He has advised international NGOs on these issues, and been invited to give talks in Canada, Europe, and the United States. He has received a University Research Fellowship and a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and sits on the editorial board of the German Law Journal. In 2022-23, Akis was named “Professor of the Year” by the Student Legal Society.