Mauricio holds a PhD in Political Science from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and an honorary doctorate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France). He is a professor at the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations (IEPRI) of the National University of Colombia, a researcher at Dejusticia and a columnist for the newspaper El Espectador. His most recent publications include Normas de papel (Bogotá, 2009); La eficacia simbólica del derecho (Bogotá, 2014); El derecho al Estado (with J. R.

Professor Brian Z. Tamanaha is a renowned jurisprudence and law and society scholar, and the author of ten books and over seventy-five articles and book chapters. His latest books are Sociological Approaches to Theories of Law (Cambridge 2022) and Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences (Oxford 2021).

Breno Bringel is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ) since 2011, with a permanent position since 2014. In 2022 he was awarded the ‘Talento Investigador’ excellence programme of the Community of Madrid, in the framework of which he is currently developing a research project on social movements and the geopolitics of ecosocial transitions at the Complutense University of Madrid and coordinates the Observatorio de Geopolítica y Transiciones Ecosociales.