Council
Following a change to the ELI Statute in September 2019, the Council now consist of a maximum of 56 members, elected by the Membership from among Individual Fellows in a way that adequately takes into account the general principles of the Association. It is the Institute's management body. The current ELI Council is composed of 55 elected members, 28 of which were elected into office on 8 September 2021. The ELI Secretariat is in the process of updating the profiles of incoming Council members.
- Despoina Anagnostopoulou
- Ross G Anderson
- Susanne Augenhofer
- Lorena Bachmaier Winter
- Ewa Bagińska
- Başak Başoğlu
- Sarah Bechaalany
- Teresa Bielska-Sobkowicz
- Robert Bray
- Christoph Busch
- Valentina Calderai
- Mario Comba
- Paul Craig QC (Hon)
- Daria de Pretis
- Nada Dollani
- Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson
- Julius Forschner
- Christiana Fountoulakis
- Paul Gilligan
- Miguel Gimeno-Ribes
- Stefano Giubboni
- Gianluca Grasso
- Laura Guercio
- Geraint Howells
- Francisco Javier Jiménez Muñoz
- Tatjana Josipović
- Thomas Kadner Graziano
- Bernhard A Koch
- Xandra Kramer
- Matthias Lehmann
- Piotr Machnikowski
- Corrado Malberti
- Maria Rosaria Maugeri
- William Martin McKechnie
- Matthias Neumayr
- Francesco Paolo Patti
- Fausto Pocar
- Meliha Povlakić
- Barbara Pozzo
- Ilaria Pretelli
- Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell
- Marta Santos Silva
- Jens Scherpe
- Ulrich Schroeter
- Andrey Shirvindt
- Tamás Szabados
- Ivan Tot
- François Trémosa
- Kaius Tuori
- Christian Twigg-Flesner
- Sir Geoffrey Vos
- Aneta Wiewiórowska-Domagalska
- Aleš Zalar
- Irina Zlătescu
- Fryderyk Zoll
Ex-Officio Council Members
In addition to the elected Council members, the ELI President, the two Vice-Presidents and the Treasurer become ex-officio members of the Council from the moment they take office.
- Pascal Pichonnaz
- Lord John Thomas
- Anne Birgitte Gammeljord
- Pietro Sirena
Further, up to 10 ex-officio persons can be offered ex-officio seats on the Council. The following have been conferred that title:
- President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), Margarete von Galen
- President of the Council of the Notariats of the European Union (CNUE), Ádám Tóth
- President of the European Land Registry Association (ELRA), Fernando de la Puente
- President of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ), Filippo Donati
- President of the International Union of Judicial Officers (UIHJ), Marc Schmitz
- President of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union, Bettina Limperg
Council Documents
In accordance with Article 10(12) of the ELI Statute, minutes of the Council meetings and decisions taken by the Council are published on the ELI website. Council Decisions (CD) have a reference number indicating the year and decision number.