Welcome to ERA – Academy of European Law

The Governing Board lays down the general guidelines for the activities of the Academy. It appoints the Members of the Board of Trustees, the Members of the Executive Board and the Management Board. It adopts the budget and receives the annual accounts from the Management Board.

Dr Jacques Santer
Former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, former President of the European Commission, former Member of the European Parliament
Representing Luxembourg

Joachim Mertes
President of the Parliament of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
Representing Rhineland-Palatinate

Elish Angiolini QC
The Lord Advocate
Representing Scotland

Daniela Kovářová
Minister of Justice
Representing the Czech Republic

Dr Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici
Minister for Justice and Home Affairs
Representing Malta

Petros Clerides
Attorney General of the Republic of Cyprus
Representing Cyprus

Malu Dreyer
Minister for Labour and Social Affairs, Health, Family and Women
Special representative of the host state

Tibor Navracsics
Minister of Justice
Representing Hungary

Dr. Ivan Šimonović
Minister of Justice
Representing Croatia

Paul Jenkins
The Treasury Solicitor
Representing the United Kingdom

Klaus Jensen
Mayor of the City of Trier
Representing the City of Trier

Professor Ioannis Karakostas
University of Athens
Representing Greece

Kari Kiesiläinen
Director General, Ministry of Justice
Representing Finland

Professor Janez Kranjc
University of Ljubljana
Representing Slovenia

Horst Langes
Former State Secretary, Honorary Member of the European Parliament
Representing the Association for the Promotion of the Academy of European Law

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
Federal Minister of Justice
Representing Germany

Dr Georg Lienbacher
Head, Constitutional Department, Federal Chancellery
Representing Austria

Eric Maîtrepierre
Head of the European and International Department, Ministry of Justice
Representing France

Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter
Minister of Justice of the State of North-Rhine-Westphalia
Representing the German Federal States

Deirbhle Murphy
Parliamentary Counsel, Office of the Attorney General
Representing Ireland

Catalin Predoiu
Minister of Justice
Representing Romania

Lourdes Montilla
Head of the Centre for Legal Studies at the Ministry of Justice
Representing Spain

Margarita Popova
Minister of Justice and Keeper of the State Seal
Representing Bulgaria

Ana Luísa Geraldes
Director of the Centre for Judicial Studies
Representing Portugal

Karolina Rokicka
European Law Department, Deputy Director
Office of the Committee for European Integration
Representing Poland

Professor Vassilios Skouris
President of the Court of Justice of the European Communities
Representing the Court of Justice

Erik van den Emster
President, Raad voor de Rechtspraak
Representing the Netherlands

Anna Vitteková
State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice
Representing the Slovak Republic

Diana Wallis
Vice-President, European Parliament
Representing the European Parliament

Tora Wigstrand
Director, Division for European Union Affairs, Ministry of Justice
Representing Sweden

Maurizio Fiorilli
Avvocato, Head of Cabinet, Ministry for European Affairs
Representing Italy

Peter Schmidhuber
former Member of the European Commission