Curatorium and Administration

The Curatorium is the Scientific Board of the Academy. Its members were presided by Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, up until his death on February 16th, 2016. Prof. Yves Daudet was elected to succeed him as President on January 21st, 2017. The Curatorium determines the scientific policy and the activities of the Academy. The Secretary-General may make proposals to the Curatorium, and is entrusted with implementing the decisions taken by it.

President

Yves Daudet

Emeritus Professor at Sorbonne Law School (Paris I University)

Vice-President

Beat W. Hess

Chairman, Board of Directors, LafargeHolcim

Curatorium Members

Mohamed Bennouna

Judge at the International Court of Justice

Katharina Boele-Woelki

Dean of Bucerius Law School, Hamburg; President of the International Academy of Comparative Law

Hannah L. Buxbaum

Vice-President for International Affairs at Indiana University; John E. Schiller Chair in Legal Ethics and Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Antônio A. Cançado Trindade

Judge at the International Court of Justice; former President and former Judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Hilary Charlesworth

Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School; Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University

Giuditta Cordero-Moss

Professor at the Department for Private Law of the University of Oslo

Diego P. Fernández Arroyo

Professor at Sciences Po Law School, Paris

Bing Bing Jia

Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing

Maurice Kamto

Professor at Yaoundé II University

Makane Moïse Mbengue

Professor at the University of Geneva

Djamchid Momtaz

Professor at the University of Teheran

Yuko Nishitani

Professor at Kyoto University

Nico J. Schrijver

Professor at Leiden University; State Councillor at the Netherlands Council of State

Linos-Alexander Sicilianos

Former President of the European Court of Human Rights; Professor at the University of Athens

Peter Tomka

Judge at and former President of the International Court of Justice

Tullio Treves

Professor at the University of Milan; Senior Public International Law Consultant, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP; former Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea