Professor Diego Fernandez Arroyo, a returning scholar-in-residence at the Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law and professor of law at Sciences-Po Law School in Paris as well as a former Global Professor at the NYU Paris Campus, has been elected to the Institute of International Law. The organization was founded in 1873 to examine and adopt normative resolutions on international law which it then brings to the attention of governmental authorities, international organizations, and scientists.
Professor Arroyo, who is also a member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law and the current Secretary-General of the International Academy of Comparative Law, is the second scholar-in-residence of the Center elected to the Institute of International Law, Professor Jürgen Basedow, a director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, being the other one.