The Board of Administration
Following the 2022 elections, the Board of Administration of the European Association of Private International Law consists of six members: Apostolos Anthimos, Gilles Cuniberti, Morten M. Fogt, Agnieszka Frąckowiak-Adamska, Pietro Franzina and Giesela Rühl.
President
The President of the Association, and Chair of the Board, is Gilles Cuniberti. Gilles is Professor of Comparative and Private International Law at the University of Luxembourg. He has been a member of several expert groups set up by the European Commission to propose new regulations of EU private international law, including on the European Account Preservation Order and on the Third Party Effects of Assignments of Claims. He was educated at Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Oxford and Yale.
Vice-Presidents
The Vice-Presidents of the Association are Morten Midtgaard Fogt and Agnieszka Frąckowiak-Adamska. Agnieszka is a professor at the Department of International and European Lawat the University of Wrocław. Author of numerous publications in leading Polish and European legal journals on European Judicial Area (civil and criminal), EU Citizenship, Internal Market and the role of national judges in the application of EU law. Member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on the revision of the Brussels IIa (2201/2003) Regulation. Leader of Polish scientific teams in three research projects co-financed by the European Commission (DG Justice): EUPILLAR, TRANSFER OF PRISONERSand IC2BE and a national expert in AMICABLE and FACILEX projects.
Secretary General
The Secretary General of EAPIL is Giesela Rühl. Giesela is a Professor of Private International and Comparative Law at Humboldt-University Berlin. She is author and editor of books, articles and book chapters on European private international law, including the 4-volume Encyclopedia of Private International Law (Edward Elgar, 2017). 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.
Deputy Secretary General
The Deputy Secretary General is Pietro Franzina. Pietro is a Professor of Private International Law at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. He authored and edited several works in the field of private international law. He served as an expert for the Italian Ministry of Justice and took part on behalf of the Italian Government in meetings of the European Judicial Network in Civil and Commercial Matters and the Hague Conference on Private International Law.
Treasurer
The Treasurer of the Association is Apostolos Anthimos. Apostolos is an attorney at law in Greece. He holds a PhD in International Civil Litigation and earned Masters of Laws from the Universities of Hanover and Thessaloniki. He authored monographs, articles and book chapters on European private international law. He teaches Civil Procedure, ADR, and the Law of Succession at the European University of Cyprus. He has been a member of the EU expert group on the Modernization of Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial Matters. He is an editor of Conflictoflaws.net and runs his own blog, International Civil Litigation in Greece, featuring reports on Greek case law.
The Scientific Council
The members of the Scientific Council of the Association, following the 2022 elections, are Apostolos Anthimos, Gilles Cuniberti, Pedro de Miguel Asensio, Morten M. Fogt, Pietro Franzina, Agnieszka Frąckowiak-Adamska, Susanne Gössl, Thomas Kadner Graziano, Bettina Heiderhoff, Marion Ho-Dac, Alexander Layton, Vesna Lazić, Tobias Lutzi, Johan Meeusen, Ralf Michaels, Dário Moura Vicente, Marta Requejo Isidro, Giesela Rühl, Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm and Jan von Hein,
Past members of the Scientific Council: Sabine Corneloup (2019-2022), Eva-Maria Kieninger (2019-2022).