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Agustín Parise was elected president of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH)

7 September 2026

Agustín Parise was elected president of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH). His term started in January 2026. The ESCLH was established in 2009, and aims to generate dialogue across jurisdictional and disciplinary boundaries. He succeeds Matt Dyson (Oxford), who ran the society with a team of three vice-presidents, the secretary-general, the treasurer and the director of communications since the Paris conference in 2018.

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