In July 2013, David Monciardini obtained the Int’l Ph.D “Renato Treves” in Law and Society, with a dissertation on the new EU regulation of corporate non-financial disclosure (i.e. social and environmental matters, human rights and corruption). David holds an MSc in Int’l Employment Relations at the London School of Economics (UK) and a Laurea in Sociology, from the University of Urbino, Italy. He has a wide range of international research and professional experiences, including working at the EU Commission (Belgium) and at Ferrara Business School (Italy).

Lynn Mather is a Professor of Law and Political Science at SUNY Buffalo Law School. From 2002-2008, she was director of the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, an interdisciplinary research center on law and legal institutions. Before moving to Buffalo, Mather held the Nelson A. Rockefeller Chair in Government at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship has addressed the transformation of disputes and the role of lawyers in litigation in different areas of law.

Joxerramon Bengoetxea obtained his Law degree from the 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.