Peo Hansen is Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University. He is the author of several books on European integration, including (with Stefan Jonsson: Bloomsbury, 2014) Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism and the EUSA award-winning A Modern Migration Theory: An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Lisa Herzog is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen; since 2021 she has been the Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Herzog has published on the philosophical dimensions of markets, liberalism and social justice, ethics in organizations and the future of work. The current focuses of her work are workplace democracy, professional ethics and the role of knowledge in democracies.

Haris Jamil is a PhD candidate at Melbourne Law School. His PhD research examines the history of the concept of state practice in international law and its role in the making of the state. He has previously taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.

Richard Joyce is Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School. His research focuses on the history, theory and political economy of international law. He is the author of Competing Sovereignties (Routledge, 2012) and is currently leading a project funded by the Australian Research Council on ‘International Law and the Challenge of Populism’.

Eleni Karageorgiou is Senior Researcher in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. Prior to that, she held positions at the University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Her current research includes an investigation of the implications of EU externalization and border practices in the area of asylum, as well as a critical enquiry into the rules of international responsibility attribution.

Martti Koskenniemi is Professor Emeritus of International Law at the University of Helsinki. He is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main publications include From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument (Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870–1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power 1300–1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). His most recent publication is a joint work with Professor David Kennedy (Harvard), Of Law and the World. Critical Conversations on Power, History and Political Economy (Harvard University Press, 2023).

Charles Romain Mbele is Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary Negro-African Philosophy at the Higher Teachers’ Training College of the University of Yaoundé 1 (Cameroon). Interested in the metaphysical and political problems arising from German idealism, Marxisms and Negro-African philosophies of liberation from the mid eighteenth century to today, he develops a critical approach to new postcolonial and decolonial methodologies. He is the author of the following books: Essay on Postcolonialism as a Code of Inequality (CLÉ, 2010), Pan-Africanism or Postcolonialism? The Current Struggle in Africa (L’Harmattan, 2015), The Theocratic Ghetto (L’Harmattan, 2017), System and Freedom in Modern Negro-African Philosophy (Silex, 2018); and ‘Emancipating Oneself from Merchandise’, in Hadrien Buclin, Joseph Daher, Christakis Georgiou and Pierre Raboud (eds.), Thinking about Emancipation. Capitalist Offensives and International Resistance, preface by Jean Batou (La Dispute, 2013). Since 2014, he has been the Executive Secretary of the Kwame Nkrumah Philosophy Club. Finally, he is, on the one hand, Scientific Coordinator of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute on Global and China-Africa Studies (Yaoundé) and, on the other hand, Coordinator for the Central Africa and Indian Ocean Region of the Pan-African Federalist Movement (PAFM-Bamako).

Frédéric Mégret is Professor of Law and holds the Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law at McGill University’s Faculty of Law. He is the co-editor with Philip Alston of The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal (Oxford University Press, 2020); with Immi Tallgren of The Dawn of a Discipline: International Criminal Justice and its Early Exponents (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and, with Kevin Jon Heller, Sarah Nouwen, Jens David Ohlin and Darryl Robinson of The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Patricia Mindus is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Uppsala University in Sweden, researcher at the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm and 2023–2024 Paris Institute for Advanced Study Fellow. She directs multidisciplinary research on citizenship and migration. Her expertise is in legal and political theory. She has authored and edited a number of books including the award-winning Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Eva Nanopoulos is Reader in Law at Queen Mary University of London. She is author of The Juridification of Individual Sanctions and the Politics of EU Law (Hart, 2020) and co-editor of The Crisis Behind the Euro-Crisis: The Euro-Crisis as a Multi-Dimensional Systemic Crisis of the EU (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Capitalist States and Marxist State Theory (Palgrave, 2023). She is the co-director of the Queen Mary Centre of Law and Society in a Global Context and a member of the editorial collective @legalform, a forum for Marxist analysis and critique. She is currently on a Leverhulme Research Fellowship working on her new book, A Decolonial Legal History of Sanctions.

Gregor Noll is Professor of International Law at the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University and held the Torsten Söderberg Research Professorate at the School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg 2020–2023. Noll has written extensively on the theory of international law, on migration law, on international humanitarian law as well as on law and AI. He has developed close ties to disciplines such as political theory, the medical sciences, history and demography from an empirical foothold in legal scholarship. He is currently working on apocalyptic law, on shared responsibility and on the Stauffenberg brothers’ exercise of pouvoir constituant.

Obiora Chinedu Okafor is the Edward B. Burling Chair in International Law and Institutions at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC, USA. He also served as the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity from 2017 to 2023 and is a former chairperson of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. He has held the York Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies at the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto, Canada, and the Gani Fawehinmi Distinguished Chair in Human Rights Law at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Sundhya Pahuja is Melbourne Laureate Professor and Director of the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law at the University of Melbourne. Her interdisciplinary work investigates the relationship between international law and inequality within and between states. She is the author of Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and is currently involved in two Australian Research Council-funded projects – ‘Global Corporations and International Law’ and ‘International Law and the Challenge of Populism’.

Sally J. Scholz is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Her research in social and political philosophy focuses on solidarity, oppression, violence and just war theory. Her publications include the books On de Beauvoir (Wadsworth Publishing, 2000), On Rousseau (Wadsworth Publishing, 2001), Political Solidarity (Penn State Press, 2008) and Feminism: A Beginner’s Guide (One World Publishing, 2010). She co-edited Peacemaking: Lessons from the Past, Vision for the Future (Rodopi Press, 2000), The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘Les Mandarins’ (SUNY Press, 2005) and Philosophical Perspectives on Democracy in the 21st Century (Springer, 2014). Scholz has served as chair of the American Philosophical Association Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research (2011–2014) and President of the North American Society for Social Philosophy (2015–2019).

Bas Schotel is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Jurisprudence. Schotel’s work concentrates on legal arrangements and legal thinking that promote and hamper individual legal protection. Bas is the author of On the Right of Exclusion: Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy (Routledge, 2012). He also published on inter alia Frontex’s operational powers, authoritarianism and administrative law, the legal history of asylum in comparison to the Dublin Regulation and EU migration deals. Recently, Bas has examined long-term pre-removal immigration detention in Europe from both a legal (German Law Journal, 2005) and a philosophical perspective (European Public Law, forthcoming).