A professor of law at the University of Haifa, Israel, as well as a senior research scholar at Yale Law School, Jonathan Yovel studied law, philosophy, and linguistics at Tel-Aviv, Oxford, Chicago and Northwestern, and is a former practicing lawyer.

Karen Engle is Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law at The University of Texas School of Law, and founding director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.

Karyn Kenny is a senior justice sector reform expert/consultant for the World Bank in Washington, DC, providing expertise on judicial and prosecutorial reform and modernization projects in Europe, Central Asia and Latin America.

Lauren Redman is a Junior Assistant Professor at the University of Lucerne School of Law.

Luzius Wildhaber is one of the most prolific figures in human rights. He is the former President of the European Court of Human Rights and an accomplished professor, judge, author and lecturer.

Martina Caroni is a professor at the University of Lucerne. She was born in 1969 in Bern, Switzerland. She grew up in a bilingual (German/ Italian) household and attended schools in Bern, Switzerland and Florence, Italy. Her law studies began in October of 1988 at the University of Bern. During her studies in Bern, Martina Caroni worked as an assistant at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Bern, headed by Prof. K.-L. Kunz.

Thomas Dougherty is a Trial Attorney with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC, where he prosecutes criminal trademark infringement, copyright infringement and theft of trade secret cases in U.S. Federal Court.