Career
Papapolitis was Professor of Commercial and Shipping Law, a very distinguished international lawyer and author of many legal books He served as a legal advisor to a number of Greek governments and prime ministers on such major issues as Greece"s entry into North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Economic Community. Papapolitis practised law in New York from 1946 to 1950 and, upon his return to Greece in 1950, he headed the law offices of Papapolitis & Papapolitis.