ESIL Board

September 2026-September 2027

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The President:

Christian J. Tams

Professor of Public International Law at King‘s College London and associate member, 11 King’s Bench Walk, London.

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

Professor at University College London and at the Centre of Excellence, iCourts at the University of Copenhagen.

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.

Daniel C. Peat

Assistant Professor in International Law at Leiden University, where he teaches public international law and international dispute settlement.

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).

Veronika Bílková

Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, and Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations, Prague. Member of the Venice Commission (2010–2026) and expert on five fact-finding missions under the OSCE Moscow Mechanism (2022–2025). Elected member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2027–2030). Co-opted to the ESIL Board as local organiser of the 2028 Annual Conference in Prague.

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.

Patryk I. Labuda

Assistant professor of international law and international relations at Central European University. He holds a PhD in international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and degrees in law and history from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

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

Chair in Public International Law at the European University Institute in Florence and visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He has taught at King’s College London, Brown University, University of Helsinki and Amherst College, and received his doctoral degree from Harvard Law School.

Edouard Fromageau

Senior Lecturer in International Economic Law at the School of Law of the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

Andreas Kulick

Andreas Kulick is Professor of International Law at the University of Mainz and Director of the Mainz International Adjudication Center (MAIAC)

Gaily Lythgoe

Upcoming

Ana Salinas

Professor of Public International Law at the University of Málaga and Newnham College Fellow (Cambridge).

Caleb Wheeler

Senior Lecturer in Law and LLM Programme Lead, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University.

In line with Article 14 of the Articles of Association, the following members have been co-opted to the Board: Arnulf Becker Lorca is co-opted as the person responsible for liaison with the European University Institute, Armando Rocha is co-opted as the local organiser of the Annual Conference in Lisbon in September 2027 and Veronika Bílková is co-opted as the local organiser of the Annual Conference in Prague in September 2028.

ESIL Board (September 2026-September 2027)