Current Faculty and Staff
Faculty members
Donal P. Hanley – Associate Professor and Interim Director
Ram Jakhu - Professor
Brian Havel - Professor Emeritus
Armand de Mestral - Professor Emeritus
Paul Dempsey - Professor Emeritus
Martine de Serres - Adjunct Professor
Paul Fitzgerald - Adjunct Professor
Andrew Harakas - Adjunct Professor
Peter Nesgos - Adjunct Professor
John Saba - Adjunct Professor
Francis Schubert - Adjunct Professor
Peter van Fenema - Adjunct Professor
Ludwig Weber - Adjunct Professor
Yaw Nyampong - Adjunct Professor
Current Sessional Lecturers
George Petsikas - Sessional Lecturer
Joseph Wilson - Sessional Lecturer
Administration
Stefan-Michael Wedenig - Executive Director
office.iasl [at] mcgill.ca (Maria D'Amico) - Senior Administrative Coordinator
Sonia De Riggi - Senior Administrative Coordinator
Tel.: 514-398-5095
Fax: 514-398-8197
Past Directors
- John Cobb Cooper (Eminent US Jurist and Legal Adivsor to IATA) 1951-1955
- Dr Eugène Pépin (former Director of the Legal Bureau of ICAO) 1955-1959;
- Mr Alfred Beatty Rosevear QC (former General Counsel at Trans Canada Air Lines, predecessor of Air Canada) 1959-1962;
- Prof Maxwell Cohen OC, QC (Professor at McGill Faculty of Law) 1962-1965;
- Sir Francis Vallat QC (former Legal Advisor in the British Foreign Office) 1965-1966;
- Prof Edward McWhinney QC (Professor at McGill Faculty of Law and former Member of Parliament, Canada) 1966-1971;
- Dr Ivan A. Vlasic (graduate of the IASL and Professor at McGill Faculty of Law) 1971 - 1975;
- Prof Dr Nicolas Mateesco Matte OC, QC, FRSC (former Professor at the Université de Montréal; Visiting Professor and Research Director at the IASL, assisted by Dr Jean-Louis Magdelénat) 1975-1989;
- Dr Michael Milde (former student and Lecturer at the IASL; former Director of the Legal Bureau of ICAO) 1989-1998;
- Dr Armand de Mestral (Professor at McGill's Faculty of Law) 1998 and Interim Director until 2000;
- Prof Paul S. Dempsey (former student at the IASL; Tomlinson Chair in Global Governance in Air and Space Law) 2000-2016;
- Prof Ram S. Jakhu (former student and Associate Professor ) 2016-2017; 2020-2022 (Acting Director)
- Prof Brian F. Havel 2017-2022; and
- Prof Donal Hanley 2022-present (Interim Director)