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
(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
(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
(785) 864-9217
Ronald Scalise
ASCL Treasurer
John Minor Wisdom Professor of Civil Law
Tulane Law School
(504) 865-5958
Sally Brown Richardson
Parliamentarian
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs
A.D. Freeman Professor of Civil Law
Tulane Law School
(504) 865-5961
Jacqueline E. Ross
Executive Board (2021)
Prentice H. Marshall Professor of Law
Illinois College of Law
(213) 333-0356
Tim Webster
Executive Board (2021)
Associate Professor of Law
Western New England University School of Law
(413) 782-1421
Margaret Y. K. Woo
Executive Board (2022)
Professor of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
(617) 373-3309
Jacques deLisle
Executive Board (2022)
Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for East Asian Studies
(215) 898-5781
Helge Dedek
Editor-in-Chief, AJCL
American Journal of Comparative Law
Associate Professor
Director, Institute of Comparative Law
McGill University Faculty of Law
(514) 398-1296
Franz Werro
Editor-in-Chief, AJCL
American Journal of Comparative Law
Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center &
University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
(202) 662-9903
Boris N. Mamlyuk
Information Officer
Associate Professor of Law
University of Memphis School of Law
(901) 678-2202
Antonia Barragia
YCC Representative
Assistant Professor of Comparative Law
University of Milan
Richard S. Kay
Honorary President
Wallace Stevens Professor of Law Emeritus
Oliver Ellsworth Research Professor
University of Connecticut School of Law
(860) 570-5262
Christina Roux
Society Executive Assistant
Tulane University School of Law
(504) 865-5934