Joxerramon Bengoetxea obtained his Law degree from the UPV/EHU and his Ph.D from the University of Edinburgh.

Maggie Walter (PhD), a descendant of the trawlwoolway Aboriginal people of North Eastern Tasmania, is a Professor of Sociology  in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia, where she teaches and researches in the areas of social research methods, family, Indigeneity and race relations. Her books include the best selling Australian text; Social Research Methods (Ed. 2006:2010:2013) and Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Research Methodology (2013) (co-authored with C. Andersen 2008).

Ulrike Schultz is a lawyer and retired Senior Academic at the FernUniversität Hagen, specialised in questions of gender and law, the sociology of the legal professions, European law and didactics of law. She has taken part in and organised many international socio-legal projects, has been member of the International socio-legal group on the Comparative Studies of the Legal Profession since its inception in 1980, as chair of the group from 2010 to 2014, and as head of the Women/Gender in the Legal Profession subgroup since 1994.