EAPIL Announces New Governance

At the recent Geneva Conference, EAPIL’s members were called to elect new officers to serve on the Board and the Scientific Council of the Association until 2030.

Congratulations and thanks to the fellow members who will take over from the previous governance.

Board of Administration

Agnieszka Frackowiack-Adamska, President

Silvia Marino, Vice President

Silvia is a Professor of European Union at the University of Insubria (Italy). She authored and edited several works in the fields of private international law and EU substantive law, including EU citizenship and competition law. She is Director of the EAPIL Winter School since its establishment (2024); Coordinator of the Jean Monnet module EUPILart, on future challenges of private international law, funded by EACEA; and head of the Italian unit in the EUSuccess research project, funded by DG Just, on the application of the EU Succession Regulation.

Konstantinos Rokas, Vice President

Konstantinos holds a PhD in Private International Law from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, with LLM degrees from National Capodistrian University (Athens) and Paris II Panthéon-Assas. His PhD focused on medically assisted reproduction in comparative private international law. He specializes in international family law, particularly artificial reproductive techniques, successions, and parental rights. Admitted to the Athens Bar since 2004, he advises clients on cross-border surrogacy and family matters. Previously a Lecturer at the University of Nicosia (2018-2023), he is currently Assistant Professor of private international law at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He speaks English, French, German.

Erik Sinander, Vice President

Erik is Associate Professor (Docent) of Private International Law at Stockholm University. His research focuses on private international law, with a particular interest in European labour law. He is an editor of the EAPIL Blog and serves as a Swedish expert in the European Labour Law Network. He studied law in Lund, Boston and Heidelberg before obtaining his PhD from Stockholm University in 2017.

Konrad Duden, Treasurer

Konrad is Professor of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on international and comparative family law as well as general issues of private international law and international civil procedure. He is a member of the EAPIL Board of Administration, an editor of the EAPIL Blog and the founder of the Lindemann Fellowship for Private International Law. He was a senior and junior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, where he also wrote his PhD and postdoctoral dissertation. He studied in Heidelberg, Munich, Bilbao and Cambridge.

Giesela Rühl, Secretary General

Giesela is a Professor of Private International and Comparative Law at Humboldt-University Berlin. She is the author and (co-) editor of books, articles and book chapters on European private international law, including the 4-volume Encyclopedia of Private International Law (Edward Elgar, 2nd edition, forthcoming) and Private International Law and Global Crises (Edward Elgar, 2026). In addition she is an editor of Conflictoflaws.net, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the European Law Institute as well as the International Academy of Comparative Law. Over the past years she has held visiting positions in the US (Columbia, Duke, Stanford), the UK (Oxford, Cambridge, LSE), Japan (Fukuoka) and Australia (Sydney). She has been invited to teach a special course at The Hague Academy of International Law in the summer of 2026.

Scientific Council

• Gilles Cuniberti
• Pedro De Miguel Asensio
• Konrad Duden
• Morten M. Fogt
• Agnieszka Frąckowiack-Adamska
• Pietro Franzina
• Uglješa Grušić
• Jeremy Heymann
• Costanza Honorati
• Thomas Kadner Graziano
• Vesna Lazić
• Tobias Lutzi
• Silvia Marino
• Johann Meeusen
• Ralf Michaels
• Dário Moura Vicente,
• Konstantinos Rokas
• Verónica Ruiz Abu-Nigm
• Giesela Rühl
• Erik Sinander

The biographies of the members of the Scientific Council can be found here.