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.
Mortimer Sellers
ASCL President
Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland & Director of the Center for International & Comparative Law
University of Baltimore School of Law
Fernanda Nicola
ASCL Vice President
Professor of Law & Director of the Program on International Organizations Law and Development
Washington College of Law, American University
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
Helge Dedek
Executive Board (2026)
Wainwright Chair in Civil Law
McGill University Faculty of Law
514-398-1296
Yvonne Tew
Executive Board (2026)
Anne Fleming Research Professor; Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Graduate and International Programs
Georgetown Law
202.662.9225
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
Hannah Buxbaum
Honorary President
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law
UC Davis School of Law
Clare Ryan
YCC Representative
Associate Professor of Law, The University of Alabama School of Law
Christina Roux
SOCIETY EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Associate Director for Academic Affairs
Tulane University School of Law
(504) 865-5902