Dr Kokkinis' research interests include corporate governance, bank corporate governance, and financial regulation. His published work encompasses one monograph, two advanced textbooks, one edited book, twenty journal articles, six book chapters and several other outputs. His research to date focuses on three main themes. First, corporate governance and culture in financial institutions including his 2018 monograph that highlights the tension between corporate law and prudential regulation, his 2019 JCLS article on bank remuneration regulation, his 2022 JCLS article on the interplay between the Senior Managers Regime and organisational culture, and his recent empirical work on culture in finance published in Finance & Society and Legal Studies. Second, normative work on corporate law that draws from moral and political philosophy, most notably his 2020 JCLS article reconceptualising the potential of worker participation in corporate management, his 2024 JCLS article on investor personhood and the case against paternalism and welfarism in corporate law, and his 2026 JCLS article on expanding negligence liability for those exercising control over liable companies. Third, broader work on financial regulation including work on the adjustments to the regulatory regime during the Covid pandemic, on the regulation of Non-Performing Loans, and on regulating financial technologies. 

Dr Kokkinis joined Birmingham Law School in 2020, as an Associate Professor, having previously been a member of staff at the University of Warwick School of Law for seven years. He holds a PhD from UCL (2014), an LLM from the LSE (2009), and a First Degree in Law from the National University of Athens (2008). He acted as joint convenor of the Banking Law Section of the Society of Legal Scholars from 2021 to 2024 and has been co-leading a network of financial law scholars in the UK since 2022. He has previously acted as external examiner for a number of UK HEIs, and has provided LLM dissertation supervision for the University of Glasgow and UCL. Dr Kokkinis is widely accepted as an authority on bank corporate governance and corporate theory, and regularly contributes to the media and to policy debates via submissions to public consultations and engagement with policymakers. He has supervised several PhD students, and held the role of Head of Postgraduate Research at Birmingham Law School from 2022 to 2025.