Kotsoglou, Kyriakos N.

 Associate Professor at the University of Northumbria School of Law, Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK). He is a Criminal Evidence and Criminal Law scholar with a special interest in evidence and proof and (analytical) legal theory.

His academic work has been extensively cited in the most authoritative commentaries on the German Penal Code and Criminal Procedure, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) and the Greek Court of Appeal in Athens. He is currently working on the doctrinal and normative framework underlying expert witness testimony, the various issues surrounding reverse onus clauses, and the use of statistical evidence in the criminal process, including specific types of evidence such as polygraph and machine-generated evidence.

Kotsoglou is the Programme Leader for the Mental Health Law Linked Awards at Northumbria University School of Law. He regularly provides expert advice to legal practitioners and businesses and organises seminars for legal practitioners and members of the judiciary. He teaches and publishes in English, German and Greek.