She holds a Doctorate Degree in Law (2001) and Bachelor Degrees in Political Science and in Sociology (1998) and she is an Assistant Professor in Complutense University (Madrid) and works as Scientific Coordinator of Cultural and Religious Diversity (CUREDI) Database Project in the Department ‘Law & Anthropology’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Dolores Morondo Taramundi is the head of research at the Human Rights Institute of the University of Deusto (Bilbao) and a lecturer in promotion and protection of human rights. She is the director of the Erasmus Mundus Programme “Human Rights Policy and Practice”.

Raja Sakrani is a jurist and a cultural science scholar. Since 2009, she is scientific coordinator at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study “Law as Culture” (Bonn) in the development and shaping of which she has been involved from the project planning stage, via fund-raising to implementation. Currently, her research focuses on the reciprocal presence of Islamic traditions in Europe, enlarging the view of how the Other is treated in a complicated normative situation.