Albertina Albors-Llorens is Professor of EU Law at the Faculty of Law in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College. Her research focuses on EU law and competition law, and she has lectured and published widely in these fields. She has been one of the editors of the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (2012–2015), a note editor of the Cambridge Law Journal (2010–2020), and one of the editors of the Yearbook of European Law (2015–2022). She is currently a member of the editorial board of the European Law Review.
David Archard is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast, having previously taught at the Universities of Ulster, St Andrews, and Lancaster. He has published extensively in applied ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. He is vice president of the Society for Applied Philosophy, was a member of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority and chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, is chair of the Ethics Advisory Group of the ‘Every Story Matters’ exercise of the UK’s COVID Public Inquiry, and a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Ségolène Barbou des Places is Professor of Public and European Law at the Sorbonne Law School, Paris 1 University. She is one of the joint editors of European Papers: A Journal on Law and Integration, and co-director of the GIS-Eurolab, an interdisciplinary network of 200 researchers on the European Union. Her research examines questions of substantive EU law with a particular focus on free movement law, EU citizenship, and migration law. She analyses the different forms of mobility organised at EU level, and she investigates the way in which EU law ‘constructs the person’ and the European society.
Michael Bogdan is Professor Emeritus at Lund University and Guest Professor at Charles University in Prague. He is the author of numerous books and articles, mainly in the fields of private international law, comparative law, law of international commerce, and private law. He is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, honorary member and former president of the Group européen de droit international privé, and emeritus member of the Institut de droit international.
Xavier Groussot is Professor of EU Law at Lund University and Visiting Professor at the European College of Paris, University Panthéon Assas (Paris II). He has previously been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Reykjavik, Nagoya, LUISS (Rome), ELTE (Budapest), and Bologna. He has published extensively in the fields of EU constitutional law, internal market law, procedural law, and legal theory. His current research focus is on the scope of application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the respect of the rule of law in Europe, and the concepts of emergency and solidarity in EU law.
Ruth Lamont is Reader in Child and Family Law at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the international movement of children and the legal regulation of child and family migration both in a modern and in a historical context. She has examined the role of the EU in relation to the family, particularly considering the impact of children’s rights protections and the law relating to free movement of persons and EU private international family law affecting children. Her work has been cited by the Court of Justice of the European Union, and she has given evidence to the UK Parliament on the impact of Brexit on family law.
Alezini Loxa is a post-doctoral fellow in EU law at Lund University. She is a Greek lawyer (Athens Bar Association) and holds an LLB and an LLM in EU law from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a PhD in EU law from Lund University. She has been engaged academically and professionally in the field of human rights protection in Europe with a specific focus on EU law, social rights, and migrant and refugee protection.
Alice Margaria is Assistant Professor of Law and Reproduction and co-director of the interdisciplinary Research Priority Program ‘Human Reproduction Reloaded’ at the University of Zurich. Her research lies at the intersections of family law, diversity, and human rights. She is the author of The Construction of Fatherhood: The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press 2019), and co-editor of Leading Works in Law and Anthropology (Routledge 2024).
Marja-Liisa Öberg is Associate Professor of EU Law at Lund University. Her research interests lie in the areas of EU constitutional and external relations law, third-country integration in the EU, the internal and external boundaries of EU integration, and interdisciplinary dimensions of EU integration. She is the author of The Boundaries of the EU Internal Market: Participation without Membership (Cambridge University Press 2020).
Nausica Palazzo is Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Law, Lisbon, and a 2024 JG McLeod Fellow at Western Law, London, Ontario. She is interested in queer approaches to family law and has published in top specialised journals such as Columbia Journal of Gender & Law and Michigan Journal of Gender & Law. Her book Legal Recognition of Non-conjugal Families came out with Hart Publishing (2021) and a co-edited collection on queer and religious alliances in family law was published by Anthem Press (2022).
Gunnar Thor Petursson is Professor at the School of Law, Reykjavik University and visiting professor at the Faculty of Law, Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). He was previously a director of the Internal Market Affairs Directorate at the EFTA Surveillance Authority (2017–2020). His research focuses on EU/EEA constitutional law, fundamental rights, and legal theory.
Jens M. Scherpe is Professor of Comparative Law at Aalborg University and founding director of the Nordic Centre for Comparative and International Family Law (NorFam). Until August 2022, he was professor of comparative law at the University of Cambridge and was the founding director of Cambridge Family Law. He is an emeritus fellow of Gonville and Caius College and the editor of the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (IJLPF).
Alina Tryfonidou is Assistant Professor of EU Law and Family Law at the University of Cyprus. She has previously worked at the Universities of Leicester (lecturer), Reading (lecturer, associate professor and professor), and Neapolis University Pafos (professor), and has held visiting positions at King’s College London, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the University of Reading, and the University of Bergamo. She has published extensively on issues related to EU free movement law and European family law, with special emphasis on the rights of sexual minorities. She has authored and co-authored studies commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PETI Committee.
Geoffrey Willems is Professor at UCLouvain, Belgium. His teaching and research focuses mainly on family law, human rights applied to family law, and international and comparative family law. He has published extensively on issues related to personal autonomy, gender identity, sexual orientation, couple relationships, and assisted reproduction. In recent years, he has also developed a particular interest in the ‘law and society’ and ‘law and literature’ approaches.