The Executive Committee has the power to manage the affairs of the Society. It enjoys the power to direct or approve expenditure of the Society's funds. The Executive may also provide for such committees as it may from time to time deem useful. The Executive is accountable to the Council for all its activities and actions.

Elected Members of the Executive Committee

Rule 19 (g) makes provision for elections to the Executive and reads as follows:

'nine members of the Society of whom three shall be 'recent' members of the Society (being members of recent professional standing who, at the date of their election, have fewer than eight years membership), such persons to be appointed by the Council to the Executive Committee to serve for no more than three years. Once appointed to serve for a three year term and re-elected for a further three year term, a member shall not be eligible for re-appointment until one year after expiry of such term. In appointing such nine members as set out in sub-paragraph (g) above, Council shall, so far as practicable, procure a reasonable balance in such appointments, taking account of factors such as gender, ethnicity, regional representation, type of institution and subject section representation.Notices of all motions, including the names of proposers and seconders, shall reach the Honorary Secretary at least fourteen days before the day fixed for holding the meeting.'

The current membership of the Executive is:

President                               Professor David Feldman, Cambridge

Vice-President                       Professor Keith Stanton, Bristol

Honorary Treasurer               Professor Peter Alldridge, Queens, London

Honorary Secretary               Professor Stephen Bailey, Nottingham

Subject Sections Secretary   Professor Lucy Vickers, Oxford Brookes

Convenor for Scotland           Professor Colin Reid, Dundee

Convenor for Ireland              Dr Caoimhín MacMaoláin, Trinity College, Dublin

Other members of the Executive Committee

Immediate Past President      Professor Nick Wikeley, Southampton

Vice-President elect                Professor Hector MacQueen, Edinburgh

Editors: Reporter,                    Professor A G D Bradney, Keele

Legal Studies,                         Prof Rob Merkin, Southampton, Prof. Jenny Steele, York, Prof Jill Poole, Aston

Webmaster                             Richard Edwards, West of England

Chair: Legal Ed.Committee    Professor Richard Taylor, University of Central Lancashire

 Ordinary Members of the Executive

Term

2008-2011          Mr Richard Barnes, Hull

2008-2011          Dr Anne Davies, Oxford

2009-2012          Mr John Tribe  Kingston 

2008-2011          Professor Mark Bell, Leeds  

2009-2012           Professor Alan Paterson, Strathclyde 

2008-2011           Mr Stephen Watterson, LSE 

2010-2013           Dr Mary Ford, Strathclyde  

2010-2013           Mr David Marrani, Essex  

2010-2013           Dr Matthew Weait, Birkbeck College, London