The principal organ of the IACL is the Council, which consists of delegates of the transnational, national and sub-national associations and the scientific institutes that are members of the IACL. The Council usually meets every four years at the time of the World Congress of the IACL, but may be summoned between Congresses on the initiative of the Executive Committee.
At its regular quadrennial meeting, the Council elects the Executive of the Association, which consists of the President, the Secretary-General, the Deputy-Secretary General, the Vice-Presidents and the members of the Executive Committee.
At its meeting in Johannesburg on 7 December 2022, the Council of the IACL elected the following persons as members of the Executive Committee for a period of four years.
Office Bearers of the IACL 2022-2026
President:
- Helle Krunke
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
First Vice-president:
- Selin Esen
Professor, Department of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, Ankara University
Secretary General:
- Anna Jonsson Cornell
Professor, Vice Dean Faculty of Law, University of Uppsala
Deputy Secretaries General & Treasurer:
- Iris Nguyên Duy
Professor, Department of Law, School of Business and Law, University of Agder - Francesco Biagi
Associate Professor, Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna
Executive Committee of the IACL 2022-2026
Vice-presidents:
- David Bilchitz
Professor of Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Law, University of Johannesburg - Eva Brems
Professor of Human Rights Law, Ghent University - Surya Deva
Professor, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney; Editor-in-Chief, Business and Human Rights Journal - Tom Ginsburg
Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science, Law School, University of Chicago - George Katrougalos
Professor of Public Law, Democritus University, Member of the European Parliament - César Landa Arroyo
Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Former President, Constitutional Court of Peru - Susanna Mancini
Full Professor and Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law, School of Law, University of Bologna - Francisco Javier García Roca
Professor and Director, Department of Constitutional Law, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM); President Emeritus, Spanish Association of Constitutional Lawyers (ACE) - Jose Maria Serna
Professor of Law, National University of Mexico - Elena Simina Tanasescu
Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest; Director, Centrul de Drept Constituţional şi Instituţii Politice (CDCIP), University of Bucharest
Executive Committee Members:
- Adem Abebe
Program officer, International IDEA, The Hague - Zaid Al-Ali
Senior Adviser on Constitution Building, International IDEA, Cairo - Merris Amos
Professor of Human Rights Law, Queen Mary University of London - Iurii Barabash
Professor of Constitutional Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University - Wen-Chen Chang
Professor, National Taiwan University (IACL Global Scholar) - Han Dayuan
Professor of Constitutional Law, Dean of Law School, Renmin University - Yasmin Dawood, Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Electoral Law, University of Toronto
- Akiko Ejima
Professor, Meiji University Law School - Tania Groppi
Professor, University of Siena (IACL Global Scholar) - JaeHwang Jeong
Professor, Faculty of Law, Sunkyunkwan University, Seoul - Serges Kamga
Professor of Human Rights law, University of South Africa - Uwe Kischel
Professor of Public Law, European Law and Comparative Law, University of Greifswald - Janet McLean
Full Professor, University of Auckland - Patrícia Perrone Campos Mello, Constitutional Law Professor, University Center of Brasília – UniCEUB
- Oumarou Narey
Professor, University of Niamey, Niger; Vice President, Constitutional Court of Niger - Angelika Nußberger
Professor of law, University of Cologne; former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (2011-2019), member, Venice Commission (IACL Global Scholar) - Catherine O’Regan
Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford; former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (IACL Global Scholar) - Xavier Philippe
Professor of public law, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Goncalo de Almeida Ribeiro
Professor of Law, Católica Lisbon School of Law, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Portugal - Pablo Riberi
Professor of Constitutional Law, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. - Wojciech Sadurski
Challis Professor in Jurisprudence, University of Sydney (IACL Global Scholar) - Alexei Trochev
Associate Professor, Nazarbayev University, Astana - Rodrigo Uprimny
Professor of Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and Theory, National University of Colombia - Marek Zubik
Professor of Law, University of Warsaw, former Judge of the Polish Constitutional Court
Conferred Titles
Presidents Emeriti:
- Thomas Fleiner
Professor Emeritus, University of Fribourg - Michel Rosenfeld
Professor of Law and Comparative Democracy, Cardozo School of Law - Cheryl Saunders
Laureate Professor, Law School, University of Melbourne - Didier Maus
Member, Conseil Constitutionnel of France - Martin Scheinin
Professor of Public International Law, European University Institute, Florence - Manuel José Cepeda-Espinosa
Professor, Faculty of Law, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá - Adrienne Stone, Melbourne Laureate Professor, Director, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne
Honorary Presidents:
- Cardoso da Costa
Professor, Faculty of Law, Coimbra University (Rtd); Former President, Constitutional Court of Portugal; President, Portuguese Association of Constitutional Law - José Luis Cea Egaña
Advocate; Professor of Law; Judge of the Constitutional Court of Chile (Rtd); Dean, Faculty of Law, Universidad San Sebastián (Rtd) - Yoichi Higuchi
Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo and Tohoku University; Member of the Japan Academy - Mo Jihong
Professor, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing - George Kassimatis
Emiritus Professor, University of Athens; Honorary Lawyer to the Constitutional Court of Greece; President of the Kytherian Foundation for Culture and Development (KIPA) - Naoki Kobayashi
- Salvador Lozada
- Kostas Mavrias
Professor Emeritus, University of Athens; President, Scientific Council of the Greek Parliament; President, Association of Greek Constitutionalists; Director, Laboratory of Constitutional Research, University of Athens - Pavle Nikolic
- Christian Starck
Professor Emeritus, University of Göttingen; Member, Academy of Sciences at Göttingen (President 2008 - 2012) - Guiseppe de Vergottini
Honorary President of the International Association of Constitutional Law; Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Bologna