Organs of the IACL

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 Colombia on 8 July 2026, 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 2026 - 2030

President:

• Selin Esen
  Professor, Department of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, Ankara University

First Vice-president:

• José Maria Serna
  Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico 

Secretary General & Treasurer:

• Francesco Biagi
  Associate Professor, Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna

Deputy Secretary General :

• Iris Nguyên Duy 
  Professor, Department of Law, School of Business and Law, University of Agder

Executive Committee of the IACL 2026 - 2030

Vice-presidents:

• Zaid al Ali
  International IDEA, Cairo
• Merris Amos
  Queen Mary University of London
• Akiko Ejima
  Meiji University Law School
• Tom Ginsburg
  University of Chicago
• JaeHwang Jeong
  Sunkyunkwan University, Seoul
• George Katrougalos
  Democritus University of Thrace
• Uwe Kischel
  University of Greifswald
• Oumarou Narey 
  University of Niamey
• Pablo Riberi
  Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
• Marek Zubic
  University of Warsaw

Executive Committee Members:

• Adem Abebe
  International IDEA, The Hague
• Penelope Andrews
  New York Law School
• Elisa Arcioni
  Sydney Law School
• Iurii Barabash
  Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine
• Gautam Bhatia
  University of New South Wales
• Rafael Bustos Gisbert
  Complutense University of Madrid
• Wen-Chen Chang
  National Taiwan University
• Magdalena Ines Correa Henao
  Externado University
• Wahab Olasupo Egbewole
  University of Ilorin
• Berihun Gebeye
  University College London
• Tania Groppi
  University of Siena 
• Conrado Hübner Mendes
  University of São Paulo
• Serges Kamga
  University of South Africa
• David Landau
  Florida State University
• Jaclyn Neo
  National University of Singapore
• Angelika Nußberger
  University of Cologne
• Tuomas  Ojanen
  University of Helsinki
• Xavier Philippe
  University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Catarina Santos Botelho
  Catholic University of Portugal
• Zoltán Szente
  ELTE Centre for Social Sciences
• Alexei Trochev
  Associate Professor, Nazarbayev University, Astana
• Verónica Undurraga
  University Adolfo Ibáñez
• Arianna Vedaschi
  Bocconi University
• Mila Versteeg
  University of Virginia
• Xiaonan Yang
  Sun Yat-sen University

Scientific Council:

• Goncalo de Almeida Ribeiro
  Professor, Catholic University of Portugal
• Eva Brems
  Professor, Ghent University Law Faculty

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 
• Helle Krunke, Professor, University of Copenhagen

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

• David Bilchitz
  Professor, University of Johannesburg