Leadership

The thirty-fourth (and current) President of the American Branch is Michael P. Scharf, who was re-elected for a two-year term in October 2024. The thirty-fifth President will be Amity Boye, who was nominated as the President-Elect in October 2024. She will take on the Presidential role in October 2026.

The American Branch uses a unique troika approach to leadership. In this troika approach, the three individuals who occupy the positions of past president, current president, and president-elect all serve as leaders of the Branch contemporaneously.

The Branch operates under the direction of an Executive Board. The Chair of the Board is Leila Nadya Sadat. The Vice-Presidents are William Aceves, Christina M. Cerna, Chiara Giorgetti, Jennifer Trahan, and Peter K. Yu. The Treasurer is Houston Putnam Lowry. M. Imad Khan is the Branch’s Secretary and Mortimer Sellers and Milena Sterio are the Co-Directors of Studies. Freya Doughty-Wagner is the Chief Operating Officer and Julia Liston is the Membership Officer.

The Branch currently has eight Student Ambassadors who assist with International Law Weekend and other events, as well as blogging and proofreading publications. The current Student Ambassadors are Hadja K. Bah, Hofstra University Law; Vibha Bangarbale, Case Western Reserve University School of Law; Callista Borst, University of Denver Sturm College of Law; Sungwon Cho, Brooklyn Law; Hallie Green, Texas A&M University School of Law; Chioma Menankiti, Harvard Law; Jessica Moore, Loyola Law School; and Haichen Zhao, University of Georgia School of Law. The call for new Student Ambassadors is typically published in late spring. Students interested in becoming a Student Ambassador should direct their questions to [email protected].