
PRESIDENT
International Academy of Comparative Law
THE CURRENT PRESIDENT
In July 2014, at the 19th General Congress in Vienna, Katharina Boele-Woelki was elected President of the International Academy of Comparative Law. She was reelected President in July 2018 at the 20th General Congress in Fukuoka.
The members of the Executive Committee, including the Secretary-General, are elected for a period of four years and are eligible for re-election. (Statutes, art. X)
Some faculties of the President
● The Academy is represented, administered, and managed by an Executive Committee made up of a President, three to six Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, and a Secretary-General. (Statutes, art. X)
● The President of the Academy presides over the meetings of the Academy and decides upon questions of procedure. (Statutes, art. XII)

Katharina Boele-Woelki
Katharina Boele-Woelki is President of Bucerius Law School, the first private law school in Germany, where she also serves as the Claussen Simon Foundation Professor of Comparative Law. Until September 2015, she was Professor of Private International Law, Comparative Law and Family Law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. In 2017 she has been appointed Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She established the Commission on European Family Law (CEFL) and the Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law (UCERF). She is member and board member of various professional associations and institutions, such as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, and serves on editorial boards for Global, European and South African law journals, book series and open access platforms. In 2014, she was elected president of the International Academy of Comparative Law. She is a member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy for International Law and was awarded honorary doctorates from Uppsala University, the University of Lausanne and the University of Antwerp, as well as the Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is an elected member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg.
Former Presidents
George A. BERMANN 2006-2014
Professor at Columbia University School of Law, New York
Konstantinos KERAMEUS 1998-2006
Professor at the University of Athens; Director of the Hellenic Institute of international and foreign law
Paul-André CRÉPEAU 1990-1998
Emeritus Professor at the University McGill, Montreal
John HAZARD 1982-1990
Nash Emeritus Professor of Law, Columbia University
Imre SZABO 1978-1982
Director of the Institut of State and of Law, Budapest
C.J. HAMSON 1966-1978
Professor at the University of Cambridge
Baron Louis FREDERICQ 1962-1966
Professor at the Universities of Gand and Brussels
Louis MILLIOT 1958-1962 (decease)
Professor at the University of Paris
(Interim president: J. HAMEL, deceased in 1962)
Jean ESCARRA 1955-1958
Professor at the Paris University
Roscoe POUND 1950-1955
Professor at the Harvard University
Antonio SÁNCHEZ de BUSTAMANTE 1927-1950
Professor at the Havane University; Judge of the International Court of Justice
André WEISS 1924-1927
Professor at the Paris University