Vincenzo Ferrari, born 1940, received his laurea (LLM) from Milan University with full marks in 1962. Soon he became a lawyer and has been a member of the Milan Bar ever since. Simultaneously, he started his academic career under the lead of Renato Treves. Initially an assistant at Milan University’s Law School, he then read Sociology of law in Cagliari and Bologna Universities’ Law Schools, as a full professor since 1980. Called back to his Milan Alma Mater in 1990, he opted for a full time academic commitment in 2000.

Professor Ruth M. Mestre i Mestre is member of the Institut de drets humans de la Universitat de València and academic director of the legal clinic program. She holds a PHD in Law from the University of Valencia, and she is master in sociology of law (IISJ-Oñati) and master in legal theory (Académie Eiuropéene de theorie du droit, Brussels). She has been Marie-Curie fellow at the Centre for research in ethnic relations at the University of Warwick (UK).

Tamar Pitch is Professor of Legal Philosophy and Sociology of Law at the University of Perugia  Law Department. She has had teaching appointments at the University of Florence and the University of Camerino, and has also taught at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law at Onati (Spain), the Universitad del Litoral and the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), New York University (USA), the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico), and the University of Regina (Canada).

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.