The honored Professor Dr. jur. Dr. h.c. Pelayia Yessiou-Faltsi has developed the civil procedural doctrine in Greece for more than forty years. After completing her initial studies at the Law Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, she embarked upon and continued her academic activity alongside the well known Professor Charalambos Fragistas.

Her first dissertation in the field of International Civil Procedural Law granted her a doctorship in 1965. It was her second book on joinder of parties in the Greek Code of Civil Procedure, published in 1970, that however established Professor Yessiou-Faltsi as an authority on Civil Procedural Law. Even today, thirty-six years after first being published, this scholarly work is frequently cited by authors. Jurisprudence also embraced and applied the views and theories expressed by the distinguished Professor Faltsi. But this study was only the beginning. In the following years Professor Yessiou-Faltsi has left her mark on the development of Greek Civil Procedural Law. She has conducted research on all its fields. She has made particularly significant contributions to civil litigation, evidence law, international civil procedural law, and especially enforcement law.