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.

Máximo Langer

ASCL President

Professor of Law
Director of the Transnational Program on Criminal Justice
Faculty Director of the Criminal Justice Program
UCLA School of Law

president@ascl.org

(310) 825-4841

Hannah Buxbaum

ASCL Vice 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

vp@ascl.org

(812) 855-8669

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

secretary@ascl.org

(785) 864-9217

Ronald Scalise

ASCL Treasurer

John Minor Wisdom Professor of Civil Law
Tulane Law School

treasurer@ascl.org

(504) 865-5958

Sally Brown Richardson

Parliamentarian

Interim Dean &
A.D. Freeman Professor of Civil Law
Tulane Law School

sally.richardson@tulane.edu

(504) 865-5961

Joshua Karton

Executive Board (2024)

Associate Professor
Queen’s University School of Law

joshua.karton@queensu.ca

(613) 533-6000

Margaret Woo

Executive Board (2024)

Professor of Law
Northeastern University School of Law

m.woo@northeastern.edu

(617) 373-3309

Fernanda Nicola

Executive Board (2023)

Professor of Law
American University Washington College of Law

FNICOLA@WCL.AMERICAN.EDU

(202) 274-4417

Gary Bell

Executive Board (2023)

Associate Professor

Director, LLM (International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution) & LLM (Asian Legal Studies)

National University of Singapore

lawbellg@nus.edu.sg

(65) 6516-3635

Vivian Curran

Editor-in-Chief, AJCL

Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh, School of Law

vcurran@pitt.edu

(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

jdelisle@law.upenn.edu

(215) 573-2025

Mathias W. Reimann

Honorary President

Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law

University of Michigan Law School

purzel@umich.edu

(734) 763-6331

Michael Da Silva

YCC Representative

Lecturer, University of Southampton School of Law

ycc@ascl.org

Christina Roux

SOCIETY EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

Tulane University School of Law

carbour@tulane.edu

(504) 865-5937