Leadership
The leadership of the American Society of Comparative Law includes some of the most important comparative law scholars in the world. They commit their time and energy to keep the legacy of previous generations of comparative law scholars and to ensure that the Society is able to constantly improve, meet new challenges, and help prepare future generations of students of comparative law.
Hannah Buxbaum
ASCL President
Vice President for International Affairs, Indiana University
John E. Schiller Chair in Legal Ethics and Professor of Law
Indiana University Bloomington Mauer School of Law
(812) 855-8669
Mortimer Sellers
ASCL Vice President
Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland Director, Center for International & Comparative Law
(410) 837-4650
Virginia Harper Ho
ASCL Secretary
Associate Dean for Int’l & Comparative Law
Professor of Law & Earl Shurtz Research Professor
Director, Polsinelli Transactional Law Center
University of Kansas School of Law
(785) 864-9217
Ronald Scalise
ASCL Treasurer
John Minor Wisdom Professor of Civil Law
Tulane Law School
(504) 865-5958
Sally Brown Richardson
Parliamentarian
A.D. Freeman Professor of Civil Law
Tulane Law School
(504) 865-5961
Joshua Karton
Executive Board (2024)
Associate Professor
Queen’s University School of Law
(613) 533-6000
Margaret Woo
Executive Board (2024)
Professor of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
(617) 373-3309
Afra Afsharipour
Executive Board (2024)
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law
UC Davis School of Law
(530) 754-0111
Ioanna Tourkochoriti
Executive Board (2024)
Associate Professor of Law
Associate Director, Center for International & Comparative Law
(410) 837-4163
Vivian Curran
Editor-in-Chief, AJCL
Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh, School of Law
(412) 648-1393
Jacques deLisle
Editor-in-Chief, AJCL
Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary China
University of Pennsylvania
Carey Law School
(215) 573-2025
Máximo Langer
Honorary President
Professor of Law
Director of the Transnational Program on Criminal Justice
Faculty Director of the Criminal Justice Program
UCLA School of Law
(310) 825-4841
Christina Roux
SOCIETY EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Tulane University School of Law
(504) 865-5937