Gilles Cuniberti
Member of the Scientific Council
Gilles is Professor of Comparative and Private International Law at the University of Luxembourg. He was EAPIL’s first president from 2019 until 2026 and has chaired three working groups of the association, on the law applicable to digital assets, the Hague jurisdiction project and trusts. He is the general editor of the blog.
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Pedro de Miguel Asensio
Member of the Scientific Council
Pedro is Professor of Private International Law at Complutense University of Madrid and Director of its postgraduate programme on IT Law. He has authored several books in these fields, including Conflict of Laws and the Internet (2nd ed, Edward Elgar, 2024) and EU Digital Law (Edward Elgar, 2026). He is also co-editor of Encyclopedia of Private International Law (4 vols) and co-author of The CLIP Principles and Commentary (OUP). Co-rapporteur of the Committee on IP and PIL of the International Law Association. He is a member of GEDIP. He is a consultant at A&O Shearman (Madrid) and regularly participates as legal expert for international organisations and European institutions.
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Konrad Duden
Treasurer of the Association; Member of the Scientific Council and of the Board of Administration
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.
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Agnieszka Frąckowiak-Adamska
President of the Association; Member of the Scientific Council and of the Board of Administration
Agnieszka is a professor at the Department of International and European Law at the University of Wrocław. In 2024/2025, she was a Senior Emile Noël Global Fellow at NYU. Her research focuses on European Judicial Area (civil and criminal), EU Citizenship, Internal Market and the role of national judges in the application of EU law. In 2022, she received the Wolters Kluwer prize for the most useful book for judicial practice in Poland for: “Formulating Questions for a Preliminary Ruling to the CJEU: A Practical Guide” (with P. Bańczyk). Leader of Polish scientific teams in various research projects: EUPILLAR, TRANSFER OF PRISONERS and IC2BE, and a national expert in AMICABLE and FACILEX projects.
Morten Midtgaard Fogt
Member of the Scientific Council
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Pietro Franzina
Member of the Scientific Council
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. He served as pro bono independent expert for the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) and took part, as an expert, in various meeting of the HCCH on behalf of Italy and the European Union. He is a member of GEDIP. He has been a member of the Board of Administration of EAPIL between 2019 and 2026; during that time he served as the Deputy Secretary General of the Association.
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Uglješa Grušić
Member of the Scientific Council
Ugljesa is Professor of Private International Law at the Faculty of Laws of University College London. His expertise lies in the regulation of transnational employment contracts, tortious claims arising out of the external exercise of sovereign authority and civil claims against multinational enterprises for human rights violations. He is an editor of the EAPIL Blog and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Private International Law.
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Jeremy Heymann
Member of the Scientific Council
Jeremy is Professor of Private International Law, International Commercial Law, and Comparative Law at the University of Lyon (Jean Moulin Lyon 3). He holds a Ph.D in private international law (summa cum laude, and recipient of several awards and prizes) from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he also served as an associate Professor (2010-2015). He completed his legal education at the University Paris XII, Leiden University, and University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Jeremy’s expertise in private international law spans across legal systems in France, Europe and the United States. He has served as director of his university’s Center for Research in Private International Law (Centre de Recherche En Droit International Privé– CREDIP-EDIEC) since 2022. He authored and edited several works in the field of private international law. He has held visiting professorship positions at universities in Brazil and Laos. He is an elected member of the French Conseil National des Universités (CNU), as well as a member of numerous learned societies, including the Comité français de droit international privé, the Société de Législation comparée, and the Société française de droit aérien et spatial. Within EAPIL, he is an active member of the Working Group on the Feasibility of a European Private International Law Act. For several years, he has also been developing expertise in transportation law (particularly aviation law), as well as in Law & Literature, by actively participating in the development of the “Law & Comics” movement.
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Costanza Honorati
Member of the Scientific Council
Costanza is a Professor of EU Law at the Milano-Bicocca University in Milan, where she also holds the chair for Private International Law and, in the past, for Legal Procedure of the CJEU. With a strong expertise in the field of PIL, she has published extensively especially in International Family Law and lectures regularly in national and international venues. She was a member of the EU Commission Expert Group on the Recast of the Brussels IIa Regulation (2015) and further participated in the EU Council’s WG for the Regulation’s final draft (2017-2019). She then was the Chair of the EJN Working Group on a Guide on the Regulation on Maintenance Obligations (2019-2022) and edited the Guidethereafter. She participated to several HCCH international meetings and attended the 8th Special Commission on the 1980 and 1996 Hague Conventions as an observer on behalf of EAPIL. Among her latest publications Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction: The Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings (with K. Trimmings, A. Dutta, M. Zupan), Intersentia, 2022; EU Private International Law in Family Matters. Legislation and CJEU Case Law (with M.C. Baruffi), Larcier-Intersentia, 2022; Brussels IIter: Cross-border Marriage Dissolution, Parental Responsibility Disputes and Child Abduction in the EU (with N. Lowe, M. Hellner), Intersentia 2024; and most recently of Guida alla Mediazione Familiare Internazionale (with E. di Napoli), Pacini 2025.
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Thomas Kadner Graziano
Member of the Scientific Council
Thomas is Professor at the University of Geneva and Director of the Department of Private International Law and of the programme on transnational law. He holds a PhD from Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, a Habilitation degree from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and an LL.M. from Harvard. He has held visiting professorships at Universities in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Lithuania, England, the USA, and China. Thomas is one of the founders of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) and chairs the EAPIL’s Working Group on the Feasibility of a European Private International Law Act.
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Vesna Lazić
Member of the Scientific Council
Vesna is Associate professor at Utrecht University and senior researcher at the Asser Institute. She authored and edited several works in the field of private international law and international commercial arbitration. Her last co-authored book is The Brussels I-bis Regulation: Interpretation and Implementation. The handbook is one of the outputs the JUDGTRUST research project co-financed by the European Commission (DG Justice), which she coordinated.
Tobias Lutzi
Member of the Scientific Council
Tobias is Junior Professor for Private Law at the University of Augsburg. He has published extensively on questions of private international law, including his monograph Private International Law Online (OUP 2020). He is the General Editor of conflictoflaws.net and has co-chaired the EAPIL’s Young Research Network.
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Silvia Marino
Vice-President of the Association; Member of the Scientific Council and of the Board of Administration
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.
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Johan Meeusen
Member of the Scientific Council
Johan (LL.M. University of California at Berkeley, 1993; Ph.D. University of Antwerp, 1997) is Full Professor of EU Law and Private International Law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is a member of the European Group for Private International Law (GEDIP) and an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He is the general editor of the Belgian-Dutch academic journal ‘SEW, Tijdschrift voor Europees en Economisch Recht’. Johan is a former holder of an ad personam Jean Monnet Chair, served as Vice-Rector and Dean at the University of Antwerp and held invited professorships at universities in China, Estonia, France, South-Africa and the United States.
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Ralf Michaels
Member of the Scientific Council
Ralf is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany, holder of a chair in Global Law at Queen Mary University in London, and a Professor of Law at Hamburg University. Until 2019 he was the Arthur Larson Professor at Duke University School of Law; he has also been a visiting professor at the Universities of New York, Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Toronto, and Tel Aviv, as well as the London School of Economics. Michaels holds an LL.M. from Cambridge University and a PhD in Law from Passau University.
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Dário Moura Vicente
Member of the Scientific Council
Dário is a Professor of Private International Law and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon. He has also lectured at the Hague Academy of International Law, Paris V, Urbino, and Complutense Madrid Universities, as well as at several universities in other Portuguese-speaking countries. He also currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Macau in China. Dário is also President of the Private Law Institute at the University of Lisbon, a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the Brazilian Lawyers’ Institute.
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Konstantinos Rokas
Vice-President of the Association; Member of the Scientific Council and of the Board of Administration
Konstantinos Rokas 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.
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Giesela Rühl
Secretary General of the Association; Member of the Scientific Council and of the Board of Administration
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.
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Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm
Member of the Scientific Council
Erik Sinander
Vice-President of the Association; Member of the Scientific Council of the Board of Administration
Erik Sinander 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.
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Former members of the Association’s governing bodies
Apostolos Anthimos
Member of the Scientific Council and of the Board of Administration from 2019 to 2026.
Sabine Corneloup
Member of the Scientific Council from 2019 to 2022.
Susanne Gössl
Member of the Scientific Council between 2022 and 2026.
Bettina Heiderhoff
Member of the Scientific Council between 2022 and 2026.
Marion Ho-Dac
Member of the Scientific Council between 2022 and 2026.
Eva-Maria Kieninger
Member of the Scientific Council from 2019 to 2022.
Alexander Layton
Member of the Scientific Council from 2022 to 2026.
Marta Requejo Isidro
Member of the Scientific Council between 2019 and 2026.
Jan von Hein
Member of the Scientific Council from 2019 to 2026.