Myrta Morales-Cruz teaches at Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law where she founded the Institute for Citizen Education and Participation in 2013 and is in charge of a clinical course affiliated to the Institute. She also teaches a course on Lawyers and Social Movements, Introduction to Law, and Legal Research, Analysis and Writing. Until August of 2017, she was the coordinator of the J.D. in English program that was launched in 2015 at Inter American.

Marianna Muravyeva is a Professor of Russian Law and Administration at the University of Helsinki. Her research is interdisciplinary bringing together history, social sciences and law to examine long-term trends and patterns in social development with a special focus on normativity, gender and violence. Some of her most recent projects focus on human rights of women and austerity, conservative jurisprudence, violence against women, and family violence (violence against parents and domestic violence).

Alexander Sasha Kondakov, PhD, is assistant professor at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland. He is also an editor for the Journal of Social Policy Studies published by the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. Alexander studied sociology of law at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in the Basque Country. Kondakov’s work is primarily focused on law and sexuality studies, more specifically on queer sexualities.

Dr. Stefanie Lemke is a socio-legal scholar and senior legal adviser with the University of Oxford, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the United Nations. Her fields of expertise are the promotion of human rights and the rule of law. In particular, she works on access to justice, judicial independence and capacity building, with an emphasis on Europe, Central Asia and Latin America.

• Professor of Sociology of Law, at the School of Law, in the National University of Córdoba (UNC), Argentina since 1992
• Master of the IISJ in 1994/1995.
• PHD in Law and Social Sciences in 2017, at the School of Law, University of Córdoba, Argentina.
• Member of Judiciary in Family Courts in Córdoba, Argentina, as Family Counsellor, since 2011.
• Member of the Study Program on Legal Culture, at the Juridical Research Center in the School of Law, Córdoba, Argentina, since 2014.

Matías Cordero Arce is an Independent Researcher, and an Educator at a Young Offenders’ Institution in the Basque Country. He holds a LLB (Catholic University of Chile) and an MA and PhD in Sociology of Law (University of the Basque Country) and has presented and published widely on issues related to children’s rights. He currently lives in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, with his wife Ainara, daughter Maialen, and son Xabier.