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
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
Scientific Council
- Goncalo de Almeida Ribeiro
Catholic University of Portugal - Eva Brems
Ghent University Law Faculty
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
Honorary President:
- David Bilchitz
University of Johannesburg