Jiří Přibáň graduated from Charles University in Prague (1989) where he was appointed professor of legal theory, philosophy and sociology in 2002. In 2006, he was appointed professor of law at Cardiff University where he teaches sociology of law, legal theory and comparative constitutionalism and currently serves as director of the Centre of Law and Society.

André Hoekema studied law as well as sociology in Utrecht, got his Ph.D. in Amsterdam, and since 1978 has been a full professor in the Universiteit van Amsterdam, now holding a chair in Legal Pluralism.

Professor of Sociology at Flinders University, Adelaide, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a past president of The Australian Sociological Association. Ph D (Connecticut), MA (Tasmania) and Law Honours (Adelaide). Author of Law and Social Change (2^nd edition 2010), four editions of Deviance, Conformity and Control, (Pearson, Sydney) and numerous articles on deviance, legal regulation and courts and the justice system. Currently undertaking a large-scale study of judicial officers and their courts.

Angela Melville is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Flinders Law School. She is a former Scientific Director at the International Institute for Sociology of Law, in Onati in Spain. She has also held previous posts in the School of Law, University of Manchester; Newcastle Centre for Family Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Justice Policy Research Centre, University of Newcastle, Australia; Justice Research Centre, Sydney.