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.