NEW GOVERNANCE TEAM

Michaela Hailbronner is the Co-President and former Deputy Secretary General of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S). She holds the Chair of German and International Public Law and Comparative Law at the University of Münster (Germany) and previously worked at the University of Gießen, the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute and the University of Pretoria. She is involved in a number of German and international collaborations and is on the advisory boards of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I.CON) and World Comparative Law (WCL/ VRÜ). Her analysis of German constitutionalism won the I.CON Inaugural Best Paper Award in 2014, with her more recent work on comparative constitutional law and human rights appearing in several international journals and her next book coming out in 2025 with Cambridge University Press. Michaela completed two German law degrees before doing an LL.M. and a J.S.D. (doctorate) at Yale Law School (LL.M. 2010 & J.S.D. 2013).

Sergio Verdugo is the Co-President and former Secretary General of the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S). He is a law professor at IE University, Spain, and an editor of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON). Before moving to Spain, Prof. Verdugo was the Director of the Centro de Justicia Constitucional of the Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. His work has appeared in journals such as the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Global Constitutionalism, the University of Miami Law Review, the European Yearbook of Constitutional Law, the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON), Revista de Derecho del Estado, Revista Chilena de Derecho, and the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law. He holds degrees from New York University (JSD), University of California, Berkeley (LLM), P. Universidad Católica de Chile (LLM), and Universidad del Desarrollo (LLB).

Erin F. Delaney is the Secretary General of the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S). She is the Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at UCL Faculty of Laws and the inaugural director of UCL’s Global Centre on Democratic Constitutionalism. Her scholarship focuses on federalism and judicial design. She was named the 2022 Federal Scholar in Residence at Eurac Research’s Institute for Comparative Federalism in Bolzano, Italy, and held the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in the Theory and Practice of Constitutionalism and Federalism at McGill University. She is a Professor on Leave at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She holds degrees from NYU (JD), Cambridge (PhD, MPhil), and Harvard (AB).

Anna Pirri Valentini is a Deputy Secretary-General of the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S). She is an Assistant Professor in administrative law at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy. Prior to this, she was a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Luiss University in Rome and a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) and at the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (France). She published articles on administrative law, comparative administrative law, and cultural heritage legislation in Italian and international journals and in collective volumes. Her first monography on the control over the international circulation of cultural property was published in 2023. In 2024, she received the three-year Jean Monnet EU grant to develop her training program on ‘Regulating and Managing Cultural Heritage in Europe’.

Amal Sethi is a Deputy Secretary General and former Director of Technology of the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S). He is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at the University of Leicester, UK. Before moving to the UK, he was based out of the University of Hamburg, where he undertook a multi-year research project funded by the German Government’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through its Excellence Strategy. His work has appeared in journals such as Global Constitutionalism, Constitutional Studies, Vienna Journal of International Constitutional Law, The Journal of Federalism, Indian Law Review, Journal of Party Studies, Common Law World Review, American Journal of Comparative Law, Modern Law Review, The University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, among others. He holds an LLM and SJD from the University of Pennsylvania and a LLB from Government Law College Mumbai.

Evan Rosevear is a Deputy Secretary-General of the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S). He is a lecturer in public law at the University of Southampton, UK. Prior to this, he was a Global Academic Fellow (Law) at the University of Hong Kong and has spent time at the Centre for Justice and Society (CJUS) at FGV Direito-Rio and the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public and International Law (SAIFAC) at the University of Johannesburg. His work has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Comparative Law, Development Policy Review, and the Nordic Journal of Human Rights as well as edited volumes from Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. He holds a PhD in political science and a JD from the University of Toronto.