ESIL Board
September 2024-September 2025
The President:
The Vice-Presidents:
Freya Baetens
Is Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law at Oxford University, Head of Programmes at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Fellow at Mansfield College.
Christian Tams
Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow where he directs GCILS, the Glasgow Centre for International Law & Security.
Ganna Yudkivska
Graduated from the Law Faculties of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (Ukraine) and Université Strasbourg III (France).
The Secretary General:
Veronika Fikfak
Is an Associate Professor at University College London and at the Centre of Excellence, iCourts at the University of Copenhagen.
The Board Members:
Helmut Aust
Is a Professor of Law at Freie Universität Berlin where he teaches public and international law. He is also an Associate Fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations.
Giulio Bartolini
Full professor of international law at Roma Tre University, where he is also Director of the IHL Legal Clinic, and lecturer at the Geneva Academy. Director Centre for Studies and Research/Hague Academy (2024).
Edouard Fromageau
Edouard Fromageau is a Senior Lecturer in International Economic Law at the School of Law of the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
Neha Jain
Neha Jain is Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Faculty Fellow at the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.
Machiko Kanetake
Machiko Kanetake is an Associate Professor in Public International Law at Utrecht University. She is the Director of the Master’s Programme in Public International Law in Utrecht. Her research interests lie at the intersection of security and human rights.
Patryk Labuda
Patryk Labuda is an assistant professor of international law and international relations at Central European University and a researcher on the ‘Memocracy’ project at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Sarah Nouwen
Sarah Nouwen is a Professor of Public International Law at the European University Institute. She is on leave from the University of Cambridge, where she is a Professor in Public International Law and was for many years Co-Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Fellow of Pembroke College.
Federica Paddeu
is Associate Professor in Law and Derek Bowett Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.
Daniel Peat
Is an Assistant Professor in International Law at Leiden University, where he teaches public international law and international dispute settlement.
Ana Salinas
Is professor of Public International Law at the University of Málaga and Newnham College Fellow (Cambridge).
Silvia Steininger
Silvia Steininger is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights Berlin and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg.