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.

Sol Picciotto is emeritus professor of Lancaster University and has been Scientific Director of the IISL 2009-11. He went to university in Oxford and Chicago, has taught at Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Warwick and Lancaster (UK), and been a visiting fellow in Nagoya University and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. He has written widely on theories of state, law and economic regulation, and his most recent book is Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism (2011).