Professor María Pilar Canedo

Deusto University

Professor Canedo joined the School of Law of Deusto University in 1998, after having done her doctoral research at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. She is Professor of Private International Law and International Trade at Deusto University and has been Visiting Professor at several European law schools (including Strasbourg; François Rabelais, Tours; Tilburg; Carlos III, Madrid; and Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid) and North American Law Schools (Hamline University, Minnesota; University of San Francisco).

Her main fields of research are European Antitrust Law and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union. She is director of the research group on Different Implications of Transnational Law.

She is currently Deputy Dean of International Relations and Academic Affairs of the Law School of Deusto University, and is Director of both the Erasmus Mundus European Master in Transnational Trade Law and Finance and the Gertrude Ryan Universidad de Deusto Chair for Comparative American and European Legal Systems.

Professor Damian Chalmers

London School of Economics and Political Science

Damian Chalmers is Professor of European Union Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he is also Head of the European Institute. He also holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Law and is head of the Jean Monnet Centre at LSE. He has been editor of the European Law Review and EU Jurist. He has previously held appointments at the University of Liverpool and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He has also held visiting positions at the European University Institute, the College of Europe and the Instituto de Empresa. His most recent publication is ( with G. Davies & G. Monti) European Union Law (2010, CUP).

Professor Carolyn Evans

University of Melbourne

Professor Carolyn Evans is Associate Dean (Research) and Acting Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne Law School, Australia. She has an LLB (hons) and BA from the University of Melbourne and a D.Phil from Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. From 1997-1999 she was a Stipendiary Lecture in Law at Exeter College Oxford. In 2000 she returned to a Senior Fellowship at the Melbourne Law School where she has taught since. Professor Evans’ two primary areas of interest are the international and constitutional protection of religious freedom and domestic mechanisms for protecting international human rights. She is the author or editor of several books on law and religion, including Religious Freedom under the European Convention on Human Rights (2001, OUP) which is the leading work in its field. She has presented on religious freedom topics in the United Kingdom, United States, China, Russia, Greece, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia, Nepal and Australia and is a member of the advisory board of several journals of law and religion and the International Centre for Law and Religion Studies. She is currently undertaking a major research project on the relationship between religious freedom and discrimination law. Her work in the area of domestic protection of human rights includes a book on the first Australian bills of rights that was published in 2008, as well as articles on the roles of parliaments and national human rights institutions in the protection of rights.

Professor Jean-François Gaudreault

Université de Montréal

Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens is Associate Dean, Research, and Canada Research Chair in North American and Comparative Juridical and Cultural Identities at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal. He has also taught at the faculties of law of the University of Toronto and of McGill University, in addition to having been visiting professor at different universities outside of Canada. His teaching and research interests are constitutional law (domestic and comparative), legal theory and epistemology, and the sociology of legal cultures. His work currently focuses on the legal treatment of religious claims, on the relations between the civil law and common law traditions in a globalized economy, and on the legal theory of federalism. He is a member of the Québec and Ontario Bars. He serves as the Canadian correspondent for the British journal Public Law.

His most recent books are: Le contexte social du droit dans le Québec contemporain.  L’intelligence culturelle dans la pratique du droit (Montréal : Éditions Yvon Blais, 2009, 299 p.) (with D. Labrèche); Le droit, la religion et le « raisonnable » (Montréal : Éditions Thémis, 2009, 552 p.) (as sole editor); Convergence, concurrence et harmonisation des systèmes juridiques (Montréal : Éditions Thémis, 2009, 300 p.) (co-editor with E. Mackaay, B. Moore & S. Rousseau); Les solitudes du bijuridisme canadien. Essai sur les rapports de pouvoir entre les traditions juridiques et la résilience des atavismes identitaires (Montréal : Les Éditions Thémis, 2007, 169 p.).

Professor Evance Kalula

University of Cape Town

Professor Evance Kalula studied and obtained his law degree, LLB with merit, at the University of Zambia in 1974. He later went for postgraduate studies to King’s College, London and Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He obtained his PhD at the School of Law, University of Warwick. He is currently professor of law (labour law and social security) at the University of Cape Town. He is director of the Institute of Development and Labour Law, and also Deputy Dean for Internationalisation and Outreach in the Faculty of Law. He chairs the South African Employment Conditions Commission, a statutory body responsible for setting sectoral conditions of employment and wages. His research and teaching interests are mainly in international and comparative labour law, and social security. He specialises in the jurisdictions of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.

Professor Oren Perez

Bar Ilan University

Prof. Oren Perez is a member of the Faculty of Law at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He has LLB (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law,1993, and LLM & PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1995, 1997-2001 where he studied as a Chevening Scholar (for the LLM) and as a Marie Curie fellow (for the PhD). His research focuses on environmental law & policy, regulation, globalization and the law, and legal theory. Among his recent publications are:'Ecological Sensitivity and Global Legal Pluralism: Rethinking the Trade and Environment Conflict' (Hart, 2004); Paradoxes and Inconsistencies in Law' (Hart, 2006) (ed. together with Gunther Teubner); 'Regulation as the Art of Intuitive Judgment: A Critique of the Economic Approach to Environmental Regulation', 4 International Journal of Law in Context (2008) 291-313; Perez et al, 'The Dynamic of Corporate Self-Regulation: ISO 14001, Environmental Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior' (2009). 43 Law & Society Review, 2009, 593-630.

Professor Karsten Schmidt

Bucerius Law School

Karsten Schmidt studied Law and Literature at Kiel University and Munich Universtity. Doctorate and post-doctorate in Bonn, subjects: civil law, commercial law, business law, cartel law and civil procedural law. Professorship in Göttingen, Hamburg, Bonn. President of Bucerius Law School since 2004. Member of academies in Hamburg and Salzburg and Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London, corresponding member of the Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, Cordoba/Argentina. He holds the honorary doctorates of the Universities of Athens (Greece) and Vienna (Austria). In 2006 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Editor of several law periodicals and has written textbooks on commercial and company law, as well as monographs, commentaries and numerous academic articles.

Professor Craig Scott

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Professor Scott joined Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000 following a term as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and 11 years at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. To date, Professor Scott’s research has been primarily in the fields of public international law and private international law, with a special focus on the place of international human rights law in both of these fields and on the evolution of ‘transnational law’ and associated theories. He has also written on comparative constitutional law, and was closely involved in the development of the provisions on economic and social rights and judicial review in the current South African constitution. Prior to starting his academic career, Professor Scott served as law clerk to the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Brian Dickson. He attended the Universities of Oxford and London on a Rhodes Scholarship. He is editor of Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001), series editor of the Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law, and convening editor of the new journal Transnational Legal Theory (launching Winter 2010). From 2001 to 2004 Professor Scott was Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies). He is currently Director of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security.

Dr. Alan Kee-Jin Tan

National University of Singapore

Dr Alan Khee-Jin Tan is Associate Professor and Vice-Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Law School. Alan received his bachelor's law degree from NUS and his masters degree and doctorate from Yale Law School. He specialises in maritime law, aviation law and environmental law. As a student, Alan represented NUS at the Philip Jessup International Law Mooting Competition, where the team emerged as semi-finalists. His doctoral thesis on the law and politics of shipping regulation won the Ambrose Gherini International Law Prize at Yale Law School. Alan was a Justices' Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore and has also interned at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London. He has published widely on aviation, shipping and environmental law issues, specializing in how these impact upon Asian countries. In 2006, his book, Vessel-Source Marine Pollution: The Law and Politics of International Regulation, was published by Cambridge University Press. Alan has also been a consultant to the government of Vietnam and agencies such as the U.N Development Programme (UNDP) and the Swedish International Development Agency. In recent years, he has worked on several studies on liberalizing the aviation industry for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In the Fall 2009 term, he was a Hauser Global Visiting Professor at New York University Law School where he taught a course on Global Aviation Law and Policy.

Professor Joseph Weiler

New York University

Professor J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor, Joseph Straus Professor of Law and European Union Jean Monnet Chair at NYU School of Law. He serves as Director of The Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, The Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization, and The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice. He is also Director of the J.S.D. Program at the Law School. He was previously Professor of Law at the Michigan Law School and then the Manley Hudson Professor of Law and the Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard Law School.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The European Journal of International Law. His recent publications include Un'Europa Cristiana (translated into nine languages), The Constitution of Europe (translated into seven languages), and a novella, Der Fall Steinmann.