Penelope Anthias is Associate Professor in Human Geography at Durham University. Her work explores the relationship between colonial racial formations, extractive geographies and the politics of rights, using ethnographic and audiovisual methods conducted in collaboration with Indigenous and campesino communities in Southern Bolivia. Her monograph Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco (Cornell University Press, 2018) won the 2019 American Political Science Association Best Book Award in the field of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Penelope has co-edited two books and three special issues on extractive geographies, ethnic territories and (de)colonial natures, among other publications. She is currently working on a book manuscript and documentary film examining the political and legal geographies of gas development in Bolivia’s Tariquía National Reserve of Flora and Fauna.

Matthew C. Canfield is Assistant Professor of Law and Society & Law and Development at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Society at Leiden Law School. He is the author of Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance (Stanford University Press, 2022), as well as the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant funded project, DIGIFOOD: Data Governance for Equitable and Sustainable Digital Food Systems.

Lynette J. Chua is Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. She is a law and society scholar who specializes in the study of legal mobilization, legal consciousness, and rights and resistance. She has received multiple awards for her research and writing, including the International Prize of the Law & Society Association. She is the author of The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as A Way of Life (Stanford University Press, 2019), and Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State (Temple University Press, 2014), as well as co-editor of The Asian Law & Society Reader (Cambridge University Press, 2023, with David Engel and Sida Liu), Out of Place: Fieldwork and Positionality in Law and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2024, with Mark F. Massoud), and Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limit (Hart Publishing, 2024, with Jack Jin Gary Lee).

Kamari Maxine Clarke is a Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies. Over the past twenty-five years Professor Clarke has conducted research on issues related to international legal domains, sociolegal studies, religious transnationalism, the politics of globalization and race, and decolonial approaches to anthropology. She has spent her career exploring theoretical questions of culture and power and, in the field of law and anthropology, detailing the relationship between new transnational formations and contemporary problems. She is the author of nine books and over fifty-five peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including her 2009 publication of Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and Affective Justice (Duke University Press, 2019), which won the finalist prize for the American Anthropological Association’s 2020 Elliot P. Skinner Book Award for the Association for Africanist Anthropology, and was the recipient of the 2019 Royal Anthropological Institute’s Amaury Talbot Book Prize. Recently, she was a recipient of the 2021 Guggenheim Prize for career excellence in Anthropology, and in 2024 was inducted as a fellow into the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences.

Julia Eckert is Professor for Political Anthropology at the University of Bern. Her research focuses on the transformation of democracy and law under conditions of global entanglement. She is interested in the relationship between moral and legal responsibility, citizenship and political participation, security and border regimes, and the juridification of social protest. Currently, she leads a research project on the relationship between law, democracy, and fascization in India. Her publications include The Charisma of Direct Action (Oxford University Press, 2003), The Social Life of Anti-Terrorism Laws (Transcript, 2008), Law against the State (Cambridge University Press, 2012), The Bureaucratic Production of Difference (Transcript, 2020), and recently, Just Sharing; The (Potentially) Radical Politics of Helping. She is co-editor of Anthropological Theory.

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS) at the University of Lausanne. Between 2023 and 2024 he was a Leverhulme Trust visiting professor in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME) and a member of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. His wide-ranging publications and public scholarship include seventeen sole-authored, edited, and co-edited books. His most recent include Extracting the Future: Lithium in an Era of Energy Transition (University of California Press, 2025), Reinventing Human Rights (Stanford University Press, 2022), and A Revolution in Fragments: Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2019). In addition to his academic writing, his nonfiction essays have appeared in literary journals such as The Paris Review and Boston Review, and he has been quoted as an expert in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Nation, and Le Monde.

Agathe Mora is Assistant Professor in Anthropology and International Development at the University of Sussex. She is also an editor at Allegra Lab and a research associate at the Universities of Lausanne and Basel. As a legal and political anthropologist, Mora conducts research within international organizations in Kosovo, the EU, and the UN. Her research interests include human rights, international law and legal practice, international interventionism, property restitution, postconflict reconstruction and transitional justice, and climate justice. Her first monograph is forthcoming with Stanford University Press.

Arzoo Osanloo is a Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. She is a legal anthropologist and previously worked as an immigration and asylum and refugee law attorney. Her books include Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victim’s Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press, 2020), and The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press, 2009). She is also co-editor of Care in a Time of Humanitarianism: Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South (Berghahn Books, 2024).

Kiri Santer is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern. Her work and research interests cover the anthropology of policy and regulation, border regimes, valuation, and transnational law. Her first book Bordering Responsibility (working title) on the outsourcing of migration control in the central Mediterranean is under preparation with Duke University Press. Her current research tracks the implementations of reforms being carried out on the European Union’s emissions trading system, with a focus on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and their effects on the global production networks of steel and aluminum. She is one of the editors of the journal Anthropological Theory.

Nitzan Shoshan is a Professor at the Centro de Estudios Sociológicos at El Colegio de México. He received his PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago. His work has focused on nationalism, populism, and the far right in Germany and beyond, as well as on urban processes in Berlin and Mexico City, and on questions of ethics and methods in ethnographic research. Recently, he has conducted research on polarization and youth mobilization in Latin America, as well as on the social life of Heimat (home, homeland) in Germany and its historical and contemporary intertwinements with right-wing nationalism.

Rachel Sieder is Senior Research Professor at the Centre for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City, where she teaches legal and political anthropology. She is a research associate at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, and global fellow of LawTransform, the Centre for Law and Social Transformation at the University of Bergen. Her research focuses on the judicialization of Indigenous peoples’ rights and Indigenous justice systems, specifically in Guatemala, where she continues to collaborate with Indigenous lawyers’ associations. She has also worked extensively on gender and Indigenous justice systems. Her most recent books include The Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America (Routledge, 2019, ed. with Karina Ansolabehere and Tatiana Alfonso, published as Manual de Derecho y Estado en América Latina, Uniandes/Siglo del Hombre, 2024), Demanding Justice and Security: Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America (Rutgers, 2017). Her publications can be found at www.rachelsieder.com.

Olaf Zenker is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Department for Anthropology and Philosophy at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His research deals with political and legal issues related to justice, inequality, land reform, the rule of law, normative pluralities, postliberal affordances, postcolonial statehood, and bureaucracy in South Africa and beyond. His latest publications include the special issues Justice in the Anthropocene (Zeitschrift für Ethnologie | Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2024), and Collaborations and Contestations in Publicly Engaged Anthropologies (Public Anthropologist, 2023), as well as Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2022). He is the convenor of the annual ANTON WHILHEM AMO LECTURES at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and the editor of the eponymous open-access series (Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg).