Eduardo Bertoni (PhD, Buenos Aires University) is the Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law, and was the first Director of the Access to Public Information Agency (AAIP), the Argentine Data Protection and Access to Information Authority. He was the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights at the Organization of American States (2002–2005). He is an Argentinean lawyer and holds a Masters in International Policy and Practice from the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He taught at Buenos Aires University School of Law and New York University School of Law (Global Clinical Professor), among others.

Gautam Bhatia is a practicing lawyer based in New Delhi, India, and an adjunct professor at the Jindal Global Law School. He is the author of The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts (2019) and Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Freedom of Speech under the Indian Constitution (2015), among others. His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of India and various Indian High Courts. He was admitted as an amicus curiae before the Supreme Court of Kenya in its landmark BBI judgment. In his other life, he is a science fiction writer.

Vincent Blasi is the Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties at Columbia Law School. His undergraduate degree is from Northwestern University and his law degree is from the University of Chicago. He has served on the faculties of the University of Texas, the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia, as well as Columbia. He has published detailed accounts of the free speech theories of John Milton, John Stuart Mill, Learned Hand, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis.

Joanna Botha is Professor of Public Law at Nelson Mandela University (South Africa) and served as Head of Department from 2016 to 2023. She holds BA and LLB degrees from Rhodes University and was awarded her LLD in 2016 by Nelson Mandela University. She has authored many publications on freedom of expression. The South African Constitutional Court quoted her research with approval in its most important judgment on hate speech to date. She has represented Africa in expert panels convened by the United Nations to develop new global standards for the elimination of racial discrimination and hate speech.

John Charney is Professor of Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. He is the author of numerous publications on press freedom, including The Illusion of the Free Press (2018).

Charlotte Garden is the Julius E. Davis Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. She specializes in constitutional law and the law of work, and her research interests include the intersection of workers’ rights and the Constitution, and how law supports (or undermines) worker voice and power. She has authored various law review articles and casebooks; in 2019, Cambridge University Press published her edited volume The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century (with Rick Bales).

Vicki C. Jackson is Laurence H. Tribe Professor of Constitutional Law Harvard Law School. She writes and teaches about comparative constitutional law, US constitutional law, and federal courts, and is the author of Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era (2010), and co-author, with Mark Tushnet, of Comparative Constitutional Law (3rd ed., 2014), and co-editor, with Yasmin Dawood, of Constitutionalism and a Right to Effective Government? (2022), among other works. Her recent writing concerns knowledge institutions in constitutional democracies, effective government and constitutionalism, judicial independence and restructuring the US Supreme Court, freedoms of expression, federalism, pro-constitutional representation, proportionality review, equality, unconstitutional constitutional amendments and standing.

Andrew T. Kenyon is Professor at the University of Melbourne and Associate Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. As well as legal doctrine, his research on comparative media law draws on media studies and political philosophy. He has been a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, London School of Economics, Queen Mary University of London, and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is joint editor of the Journal of Media Law and his most recent monograph is Democracy of Expression: Positive Free Speech and Law (2021).

András Koltay is Research Professor at the Ludovika – University of Public Service (Budapest) and Professor of Law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest). From 2018 to 2021 he served as Rector of the University of Public Service. His most recent book is Media Freedom and the Law (2024). He is also the author of New Media and Freedom of Expression (2019). He is the co-editor of Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression (2017, with Jeroen Temperman), Comparative Privacy and Defamation (2020, with Paul Wragg), and Global Perspectives on Press Regulation, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (2023 and 2024, with Paul Wragg).

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. is the John S. Stone Chair, Director of the Program in Constitutional Studies and Initiative for Civic Engagement. His scholarly research and teaching focus on constitutional law, First Amendment law, administrative law, telecommunications law and comparative constitutional law. His most recent book is Free Speech as Civic Structure (2024). He is also the author of The Disappearing First Amendment (2019), Privacy Revisited: A Global Perspective on the Right to Be Left Alone (2016) and the co-author of First Amendment: Cases and Theory (4th ed., 2022) (with Lyrissa Lidsky, Caroline Mala Corbin and Timothy Zick).

Victoria Miyandazi is Knight Fellow in Legal and Constitutional Research at the University of St. Andrews Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research. Previously, she was a lecturer at the University of Embu, researcher at the Oxford Human Rights Hub, and legal researcher at the Kenyan Judiciary Committee on Elections. She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She holds Doctor of Philosophy in Law, Master of Philosophy in Law, and Bachelor of Civil Law Degrees from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) degree from Kenyatta University.

Ahran Park is an associate professor in the School of Media and Communication at Korea University. Her main research interests are in media law and journalism, especially in relation to Internet law and regulation. She completed her MA from Seoul National University and PhD from the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. She was a former news reporter for Chosun Daily Newspaper in Seoul. She has published several books and articles in international journals on Korean media law. Recently, she published the article “Digital Scarlet Letter on Journalists: Weaponized Harassment against Journalists in South Korea” in Journalism Practice (2023).

Robert C. Post is the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. From 2009 to 2017 he was the sixteenth Dean of Yale Law School. He writes frequently on issues of freedom of speech and is the author of, among other books, Citizens Divided: Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution (2014); Democracy, Expertise, Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State (2012); and Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management (1995).

Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann holds the Chair in Public Law, Law of Digitalisation, Environmental Law and Legal Theory at the University of Cologne. She heads the Center of Digitisation thereof and the Data Protection Research Institute at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published numerous articles and books in the field of data protection, digitalisation and democracy, fragmentation and uncertainty and state communication. She is co-editor and co-author of the article-by-article-commentary on the GDPR.

Lucianna Thuo holds an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (University of Pretoria), a post-graduate diploma in Realising Human Rights through Criminal Law (Åbo Akademi University, Finland), an LLB from the University of Nairobi and a postgraduate diploma from the Kenya School of Law. She is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She has published widely in the area of elections and political inclusion. Having served as a visiting lecturer at the University of the Gambia, she is currently a lecturer and former associate Dean at Kabarak Law School, Kenya.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is Brennan Center Fellow and Professor of Law at Stetson University. She was counsel in the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and an associate at Arnold & Porter. She is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law. She has testified before Congress as an expert on campaign finance, and has helped draft Supreme Court briefs. She is the author of the books Corporate Citizen? (2016) and Political Brands (2019). Her forthcoming book is Corporatocracy (New York University Press). She published over twenty law review articles and hundreds of legal op-eds.

Bernát Török is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, and Director of the Institute of the Information Society at the Ludovika University of Public Service (Budapest). He worked as legal expert at the Hungarian media authority for seven years, then he was chief counsellor at the Constitutional Court of Hungary between 2010 and 2018. In 2016–17, he was visiting scholar at Yale Law School. He earned his PhD in 2018 with a thesis titled To Speak Freely in a Democracy. His research interests include freedom of speech, and fundamental rights in the information society.