Giovanna Adinolfi has been an Associate Professor in International Law at the University of Milan since 2002. She obtained her Ph.D. in International Economic Law at the University of Bergamo (Italy) (1998). She then won a post-Ph.D. grant (1999) and a tenure lecturer position at the University of Milan (2001). Member of the faculty of the Ph.D. School in International Law and Economics at Bocconi University (Milan). Member of the Italian delegation to the United Nations (New York) at the Committee on Programme and Coordination (Summers 2000 and 2001) and the General Assembly (Fifth Commission) (Winter 2001). Her main fields of research and publications concern monetary and financial law, IMF (institutional dynamics, surveillance over national economic policies, financial assistance), international institutional law, and EC external relations in the economic field.

Payam Akhavan LLM, SJD (Harvard) is Professor of International Law at McGill University, Canada, and Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He was previously Visiting Professor at Science Po (Paris) and Yale Law School. Hw as the first Legal Advisor to the Prosecutor's Office of the ICTY-ICTR and served with the UN in Bosnia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Timor Leste and Rwanda. He has appeared as counsel before the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the permanent Court of Arbitration, and the European Court of Human Rights. He is also a Founder of hte Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre and Prosecutor of the Iran Tribunal. In 2005, he was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.

Julian Arato is an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, in the Dispute Resolution Group (international arbitration and litigation). He holds a J.D. and LL.M. from New York University School of Law where he studied as an Institute for International Law and Justice Scholar, and an M.Phil. from Cambridge University in political thought and intellectual history. He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University. He has published in the areas of treaty interpretation, international courts and tribunals, international organizations, and constitutional theory. He has previously worked at the European Court of Human Rights, the International Law Commission, and most recently as an advisor to the Permanent Mission of Palau to the United Nations on matters of public international law and international environmental regimes.

Kristen E. Boon is Professor of Law and Director of International Programs at Seton Hall Law School, New Jersey. She holds a Doctorate in law from Columbia Law School, a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2000, a M.A. in Political Science from McGill University in 1996, and a B.A. with honors, in Political Science and History from McGill University in 1994. She has authored and co-authored articles on such topics as legislative reform in post-conflict zones, jus post bellum, the security council's evolving jurisdiction and the law of responsibility. Prior to joining Seton Hall she served as a clerk to Supreme Court of Canada Justice Ian Binnie and as a litigation associate with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York.

Stephen Bouwhuis is the Legal Counsel of the Commonwealth Secretariat. Stephen provides advice on all legal issues concerning the Commonwealth Secretariat including reform its corporate processes and policies, arrangements with foreign governments and other entities, staffing matters and institutional reform. Stephen was previously Assistant Secretary of the Office of International Law in the Australian Government. In this role he was responsible for the provision of international legal advice on matters including trade, investment, maritime, arbitration, security and general international law. His academic qualifications include a Masters of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a Masters of International Law from the Australian National University.

Alan Boyle has been Professor of Public International Law at the University of Edinburgh School of Law since 1995. He teaches international law, international environmental law, and law of the sea. Publications include International Law and the Environment (with Patricia Birnie and Catherine Redgwell)(3rd edn, OUP, 2009) and The Making of International Law (with Christine Chinkin)(OUP, 2007). He practises international law from Essex Court Chambers, London. Recent or current cases include Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (ICJ), Aerial Spraying (ICJ), Bay of Bengal Maritime Boundaries (ITLOS and PCA), Japanese Whaling (ICJ), Chagos Islands (UNCLOS).

Dr. Richard Burchill BA (Maine), MA (Hull), PhD (Nottingham) is a Reader in Law at the Law School and a member of the McCoubrey Centre for International Law and the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull. His teaching and research interests deal with the legal aspects of international and human rights for the purposes of furthering human emancipation and empowerment, with a particular focus on the role of international organisation. Recent publications include: ‘The Value of Dissonance: Regional Arrangements and the Pursuit of Harmony in International Law’ 105 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law (2011); “Regional Arrangements and the UN Legal Order” in International Organisations and the Idea of Autonomy edited by N. White and R. Collins (Routledge, 2011) and ‘Regional Approaches to International Humanitarian Law’ 40 Victoria University Wellington Law Review (2010).

Naomi Burke is a PhD candidate at Newnham College, Cambridge, where her research focuses on law of the sea issues in administered and occupied territories. She also holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin, IEP Paris and NYU School of Law.

Theodore Christakis is Professor of International Law the Faculty of Law, University of Grenobles Alpes, where he is also Director of the Centre for International Security and European Studies and of the Masters degree in International and European Law. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Leiden Journal of International law, member of the Executive Council and Treasurer of the French Society for International Law, and director of the European Society of International Law interest group on Peace and Security. He has appeared as counsel in national and international (International Court of Justice) litigation. During the last three years, he has been invited to teach as visiting professor/fellow at the Australian National University, Kobe University and has been Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law.

Lisa Clarke has an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LLM from the University of Helsinki with a specialisation in public international law. She obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam writing on the responsibility of global health public-private partnerships under international law. At present, she is a Jean Monnet Fellow with the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. She has also lectured in areas of public international law, with a particular focus on human rights, and further, is called to the bar as a barrister and solicitor in Canada.

Richard Collins is a lecturer in law at the University of Sheffield, where he teaches broadly in the areas of public law and international law. He has published several works on the law of international organisations, international legal history and theory, as well as the recent interest in the idea of international constitutionalism. His 2009 article in the /Leiden Journal of International Law/, 'Constitutionalism as Liberal-Juridical Consciousness: Echoes from International Law's Past' was recently awarded the Journal's /Hugo Grotius Prize/. His presentation at the ILA is based upon research for a forthcoming monograph to be published with Hart.

Sophia Dawkins is a political scientist and conflict resolution practitioner. Her work focusses on South Sudan, where she provides impartial policy assistance on inclusive governance choices that can enhance prospects for peace. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an M.A. in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Dr Alison Duxbury is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School and an Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law. She is also a member of the International Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, the Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee (Vic Division) and the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. Alison has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge and has also taught at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London. She is the author of the book, The Participation of States in International Organisations: The Role of Human Rights and Democracy (CUP, 2011) and the Oxford Bibliographies in International Law entry, ‘International Organisations’ (OUP, 2012).

David P. Fidler is the James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He is also a Fellow at the Indiana University Center on Applied Cybersecurity Research. He has published and lectured extensively on international law, cyberspace, and cybersecurity, and he teaches, among other things, Cybersecurity Law & Policy: Crime, Terrorism, Espionage & War in Cyberspace. He holds two degrees from the University of Oxford (M.Phil. in International Relations (St. Antony’s) and B.C.L. (Wadham) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Mary Footer is Professor of International Economic Law at the University of Nottingham, where she is also Head of the Business, Trade and Human Rights Unit at the Human Rights Law Centre. She has been an expert consultant to the WTO, the European Union, UNCTAD, DfID and the European Trade Union Technical Bureau (TUTB) for Health and Safety. She is a member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), member of the Executive Council of the British Branch of the International Law Association (ILA), a member of the ILA International Trade Law Committee and was co-Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on International Law and Biotechnology (2004-2010). In 2012 Professor Footer was nominated a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Richard Gardiner practised as a barrister and was then a legal adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for some twelve years. For the next two decades he was a member of the Faculty of Laws at University College London where he is now a Visiting Professor. He is the author of International Law (Pearson/Longman, 2003) and Treaty Interpretation (OUP, 2008, and 2010 paperback).

Christoph Good studied law and obtained his PhD from the University of St. Gallen writing on the idea of human rights and humanitarian law in the work of Emer de Vattel. Currently he is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Zurich Center for Human Rights (UZHR).In addition to his work at UZHR, he is lecturer in legal history at the University of Lucerne.

Guy S. Goodwin Gill is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of International Refugee Law. He was formerly Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam, and served as a Legal Adviser in the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1976-1988. He practises as a Barrister from Blackstone Chambers, London, and he has written extensively on refugees, migration, international organizations, elections, democratization, and child soldiers; Recent publications include/ The Refugee in International Law/, (OUP, 2007), 3rd edn. with Dr Jane McAdam; /Free and Fair Elections/, (Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2nd edn., 2006); /Basic Documents on Human Rights/, (OUP, 2006), 5th edn., with Ian Brownlie, eds.

Charles Chernor Jalloh is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pennsylvania, USA. A member of the Ontario Bar, he has been a Legal Counsel in the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Canadian Department of Justice. He was formerly the Legal Advisor to the Office of the Principal Defender in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where he was interim court-appointed duty counsel to former Liberian President Charles Taylor; an Associate Legal Officer at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court. He is an active member of the international criminal bar serving, inter alia, on the Advisory Panel to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Advisory Board of the War Crimes Committee, International Bar Association.

Giedre Jokubauskaite is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh and she has previously studied Masters in international law in Switzerland and Lithuania. Her research focuses on the role of the non-state actors in public international law, in particular the linkage between the sub-state communities and international institutions. Giedre worked with numerous advocacy organizations and trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe and Africa and has an extensive field experience over the issues of public financing and the distribution of development aid.

Nico Krisch is a Professor of International Law at the Hertie School of Governance and an ICREA Research Professor at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics and a postdoctoral fellow at Merton College (Oxford) and New York University School of Law. Nico Krisch holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Heidelberg and a Diploma of European Law of the Academy of European Law in Florence, Italy. He is the author of Selbstverteidigung und kollektive Sicherheit (Self-defense and Collective Security, 2001) and of articles on the UN, hegemony in international law, and the legal order of global governance. His most recent book, Beyond Constitutionalism: The Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law (2010), was awarded the 2012 Certificate of Merit of the American Society of International Law.

Edward Kwakwa is Legal Counsel at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. Before joining WIPO, Kwakwa practiced corporate and international trade law and investment with the law firm of O’Melveny and Myers in Washington, D.C., worked as International Legal Adviser at the Commission on Global Governance in Geneva, as Senior Legal Adviser at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and as Legal Affairs Officer at the World Trade Organization. He is an Associate Member of the Institut de Droit International, a Counsellor of the American Society of International Law, the Vice President of the African Foundation for International Law and a Member of the Governing Council of Africa Legal Aid. He is also Adjunct Professor of Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Extraordinary Professor of law at the University of Pretoria.

Alice Lacourt is a Legal Counsellor in the Legal Directorate of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Co-leader of the International Institutions and Security Policy Team, Alice oversees legal advice on sanctions, war crimes and conflict issues. She joined the FCO in 1994 and was posted as First Secretary (Legal) at the UK Mission to the UN in New York from 2000 – 2003.

Sotirios-Ioannis Lekkas is a researcher at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and at University College London. He is also an advocate with the Athens Bar in Greece. He has studied law at UCL, the University of Athens and HU-Berlin. After graduating top of his class from the postgraduate programme of the Department of International Studies of Athens Law School, he furthered his studies in international law at University College London. For his performance at UCL he received the Cheng Chang-Nan Prize in International Law.

Gregory Messenger is a Junior Research Fellow in Law at The Queen's College where he completed his DPhil and BCL degrees. He read law as an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh with a year at the University of Granada and has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Durham. His research interests are principally in public international law, international economic law and trade-related aspects of US and EU constitutional law

Patricia O’ Brien was appointed the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and UN Legal Counsel in August 2008. She oversees the Office of Legal Affairs, the overall objectives of which are to provide a unified central legal service for the United Nations. Prior to her appointment she served for five years as Legal Adviser to the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. She also served as a Senior Legal Adviser to the Attorney General of Ireland and as Legal Counsellor at the Irish Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels. She is a member of the Irish Bar (1978) and of the Bar of England and Wales (1986). She is a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, Vice-President of the Dublin University Law Society, and an Honorary Bencher of the Kings Inns, Dublin, and a Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple, London.

Jed Odermatt has an LLM in International and European Law from Tilburg University, the Netherlands and an LLB from Flinders University, Australia. He is currently a research fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and the Institute for International Law, University of Leuven. His research interests include Public International Law and the Law of International Organizations, with a particular focus on the role of the EU in the international legal order.

Efthymios Papastavridis is Part-time Lecturer, University of Thrace and Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens. He is also a post-doctoral researcher In Public International Law at the National and “Kapodistrian” University of Athens where he is working on “Irregular Migration through the Mediterranean Sea: Obligations of States under International and European Law”

Peter Quayle is counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He specialises in public international law, international administrative law and litigation. Between 2004 and 2012 he was legal advisor to the Office of Foreign Litigation, Civil Division European Office, of the US Department of Justice, based in London. He was educated at New College, Oxford (MA, Modern History) and University College London (LL.M). He is a solicitor, trained at Norton Rose and qualified in 2001. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame, London Law Center.

Isobel Roelle is a lecturer at Cardiff Law School, where she works on international law theory and collective security law. Prior to that she completed a doctorate at the University of Nottingham (2009). Her thesis was about the self-defence in international law, considering whether, and under what conditions, a valid use of the justification of self-defence could be distinguished from a pretextual one.

Eliza Ruozzi is a researcher in international law at the University of Turin

Dr Katja Samuel is a barrister, and lecturer at Reading University, UK who specializes in rule of law and security issues, particularly counter-terrorism and international human rights. Her research interests also include the influences of Islamic law and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on international law-making, due to be published in KLH Samuel, The OIC, the UN, and Counter-Terrorism Law-Making: Conflicting or Cooperative Legal Orders (Hart, 2013, forthcoming). Between 2008 and 2012 she was the project manager and co-director of a multinational, multidisciplinary collaborative rule of law and terrorism research project under the World Justice Project located at Nottingham University. Previously, she served for 12 years in the UK Royal Navy, including as a legal adviser.

Professor Dan Sarooshi is Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford; a Senior Research Fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford; and a practising Barrister at Essex Court Chambers, London from where he advises and represents governments, international organizations, and corporations. He has advised international organizations on a wide range of institutional matters. His books include International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers (2005) (OUP), and The UN and the Development of Collective Security (1999) (OUP). These books were awarded the 2001 and the 2006 American Society of International Law Book Prizes, the 2006 Myres S. McDougal Prize by the American Society for the Policy Sciences, and the 1999 Guggenheim Prize by the Swiss Guggenheim Foundation.

Antoine Schnegg is a PhD candidate at the Institute of International Law at the University of Zurich and he focusses his research on international investment law. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Zurich and an LL.M. from the Leiden University.

Bart Smit Duijzentkunst is a PhD Candidate and WM Tapp Scholar at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law. Prior to coming to Cambridge, Bart worked as an Associate Legal Officer at the Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in New York.

Dr. Yoshinobu Takei is Research Associate at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law, University of Kiel, currently engaged in a post-doctoral research project entitled “Tools and Steps for the Reform of Ocean Governance: Legal and Institutional Aspects” within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean”. Prior to holding his current position, he was Research Associate at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, Utrecht University, and Research Fellow at the Ocean Policy Research Foundation of Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 2008. He has conducted research on various issues in the law of the sea and ocean policy, including high seas fisheries, integrated management of the oceans and seas, international submarine cables and Arctic Ocean governance.

Ingo Venzke is a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam. Previously, he was a Hauser Research Scholar at New York University, affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice, and a Visiting Scholar at the Cegla Center for the Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, Tel Aviv University. Ingo wrote his PhD at the University of Frankfurt while working as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. His doctorate is now published as How Interpretation Makes International Law: On Semantic Change and Normative Twists (OUP 2012). Ingo's research at the moment focuses on the many roles that international courts play in global governance.

Nikolaos Voulgaris is a PhD Candidate at the Kings College London. He graduated from the National and Kapodistrian Univerist of Ahthens in 2009 (ranked 1st in his year), and with a Distinction on the LLM at Kings College College London (2012).

Chanaka Wickremasinghe is a Legal Counsellor in the Legal Directorate of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He leads the General Law Team covering a range of issues of international and domestic law, including advising on issues concerning diplomatic relations and relations with international organisations which have their headquarters in the UK. He has served at the UK Mission to the UN in New York as First Secretary (Legal) and also on temporary duty as Relex Counsellor at the UK Representation to the EU in Brussels. Prior to joining the FCO he was a Lecturer at Bristol University, and prior to that he was a Research Officer at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.

Jan Wouters is full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance and Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute for International Law at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He is also a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (Paris) and the College of Europe (Bruges). As a Visiting Professor, he also teaches in the Master of Laws in International Economic Law (IELPO) at the University of Barcelona and in the European Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA, Venice). He is President of the Flemish Foreign Affairs Council, which advises the Flemish Government, and practises law as Of Counsel at Linklaters, Brussels. He is Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts.