Professors Iain Scobbie and Jean d’Aspremont are the directors of the Manchester International Law Centre (MILC). MILC was founded in 2014 and now numbers more than forty researchers in the area of international law. MILC is responsible for the organization of the annual Melland Schill lectures in international law, and will be hosting the 14th annual meeting of the European Society of International Law in September 2018.