ESIL Board
September 2025-September 2026
The President:
Christian Tams
Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow where he directs GCILS, the Glasgow Centre for International Law & Security.
The Vice-Presidents:
Freya Baetens
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.
Veronika Fikfak
Associate Professor at University College London and at the Centre of Excellence, iCourts at the University of Copenhagen.
Ganna Yudkivska
Graduated from the Law Faculties of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (Ukraine) and Université Strasbourg III (France).
The Secretary General:
Daniel Peat
Assistant Professor in International Law at Leiden University, where he teaches public international law and international dispute settlement.
The Board Members:
Giulio Bartolini
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
Senior Lecturer in International Economic Law at the School of Law of the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
Patryk Labuda
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.
Gleider Hernández
Professor of Public International Law at the Catholic University of Leuven. Previously, he was part-time Professor at the Open Universiteit (2018-2022), and lectured (leaving as Reader) at Durham Law School (2011-2018).
Armando Rocha
Professor of Law at Católica|Lisbon School of Law and Invited Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille.
Silvia Steininger
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.
Arnulf Becker Lorca
Professor of Public International Law at the University of Málaga and Newnham College Fellow (Cambridge).
Patrycja Grzebyk
Dr. Hab. Iur., Associate Professor, University of Warsaw. Her main research interests focus on International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal law, Use of Force and the role of international courts.
Machiko Kanetake
Academic Director of the T.M.C. Asser Institute and a Professor of International Law and Security Governance at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Her research interests lie at the intersection of security and human rights.
Federica Paddeu
Associate Professor in Law and Derek Bowett Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.
Ana Salinas
Professor of Public International Law at the University of Málaga and Newnham College Fellow (Cambridge).