Contributors

Aziza Ahmed

is Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law.

Dr. Shahla Ali

is Professor and Associate Dean (International) at the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law. Her research centers on questions of governance, development, and transnational dispute resolution in East Asia. She is the author of five books and more than forty-five articles and book chapters. She has consulted with USAID, IFC/World Bank, and the United Nations on issues pertaining to access to justice, peace process negotiation training, and land use conflict resolution. She serves as a bilingual arbitrator (English/Chinese) and holds a BA from Stanford and JD/PhD from UC Berkeley.

Larry Catá Backer

is the W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law and International Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on globalization, transnational law, and the constitutional theories of public and private systems (liberal democratic and Marxist-Leninist). He teaches courses in constitutional law, corporate law (including multinational corporations and corporate social responsibility), transnational law, and international organizations. His publications include Elements of Law and the U.S. (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2020), Cuba’s Caribbean Marxism (Little Sir Press, 2018); Comparative Corporate Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2002), an edited collection of essays, Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization (Carolina Academic Press, 2007), and a number of articles and contributions to published collections of essays.

Adelle Blackett

is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development at McGill University. She founded and directs the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory. An advocate emeritus of the Barreau du Québec and an elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, she has worked to bring a decolonial approach to labor law. Her most recent book is Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labour Law (Cornell University Press, 2019). With her 2016 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship, she held a live webcast course in winter 2019 with speakers from around the world to commemorate the International Labour Organization’s centenary, with articles forthcoming in special issues of the AJIL Unbound and the International Labour Review.

Hannah L. Buxbaum

is Professor of Law and John E. Schiller Chair at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. She specializes in private international law and international litigation and jurisdiction. She is co-author of a leading casebook on international business transactions and author of numerous articles in US and foreign journals. She currently serves as a member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law and is active in a number of other scholarly and professional organizations.

Matthew Canfield

is an Assistant Professor of Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University. His research investigates the politics of transnational food security regulation, as well as how social movements articulate and mobilize social justice claims in response to emerging forms of transnational law. His research has been published in journals including Law & Society Review, Public Culture, Transnational Legal Theory, and Law, Politics, and Society. He holds a PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from New York University.

Dr. A. Claire Cutler

is a Professor of International Law and Relations in the Political Science Department at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She is a graduate of UBC (BA; PhD), the LSE (MSc), and McGill (LLB). She specializes in the intersection of international law and international politics and is interested in developing a critical political economy of international law. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled A Critique of Global Capitalism: The Climate Under Fire (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press) that explores the intersection of transnational legality and climate politics. Her publications include The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract, edited with Thomas Dietz (Routledge, 2017); New Constitutionalism and World Order, edited with Stephen Gill (Cambridge University Press, 2014); Private Authority and International Affairs, edited with Virginia Haufler and Tony Porter (State University of New York Press, 1999); and Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Eve Darian-Smith

is Professor and Chair of the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California Irvine, USA. Her award-winning books include Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches (2013), and The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies (2017).

Helge Dedek

is an Associate Professor of Law at McGill University. He is interested and has published in comparative and transnational legal history, legal theory, and private law. From 2012 to 2016 he served as the Director of the McGill Institute of Comparative Law. As of 2018, he also holds an appointment as professeur associé (droit comparé & transnational, législation étrangère) at the University of Lausanne. Since 2014 he serves (together with Franz Werro) as the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law.

Dr. Sara Dehm

is Lecturer in International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She researches in the areas of public international law, international migration and refugee law, and the history and theory of international law and institutions. Her work engages the interrelationship between global inequalities, imperialism, decolonization, and struggles for migrant justice.

Antoine Duval

is a senior researcher at the Asser Institute in The Hague. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute, and his research focuses on the role of private actors in transnational law. He has widely published on the lex sportiva and the transnational private regulation of sports.

Klaas Hendrik Eller

is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at Humboldt-University of Berlin and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. He completed his legal studies in Cologne and at the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and was a PhD Fellow of Humboldt-University’s “European Law School.” His main areas of research are private legal theory, contract and competition law, transnational law, business and human rights, as well as the history of legal thought. Publications include “Private Governance of Global Value Chains from Within,” Transnational Legal Theory 8 (2017): 296–329, and “The Role of Law in Global Value Chains: A Research Manifesto,” London Review of International Law 4 (2016): 57–79 (together with the IGLP Working Group on Law and Global Production).

Dr. Claire Fenton-Glynn

is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Her research lies in the field of children’s rights, comparative law, and international human rights law. She has published on a wide range of issues, including parenthood (especially international surrogacy), child trafficking, and children and sustainable development. Her first book, Children’s Rights in Intercountry Adoption, was awarded the Inner Temple Book Prize for New Authors in 2015.

Sabine Frerichs

is Professor of Economic Sociology at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. She holds a PhD degree in Sociology from the University of Bamberg, Germany, was Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Helsinki, Finland, and, recently, Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study “Law as Culture,” University of Bonn, Germany. In her research, she is concerned with the intersections of law, economy, and society and how these are constructed in different fields of scholarship.

Farnush Ghadery

is a Lecturer in Law at London South Bank University as well as a PhD Candidate, Visiting Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London.

Michael Giudice

is Associate Professor of Philosophy at York University, Canada. He specializes in the philosophy of law, and with Keith Culver has two books on the contingent and dynamic relation between law and state, Legality’s Borders (Oxford University Press, 2010) and The Unsteady State (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Manuel A. Gómez

is Professor of Law and Associate Dean of International and Graduate Studies at Florida International University College of Law in Miami (USA). His most recent publications include: “Legal Professionals in Latin America in the Twenty-First Century,” in R. Sieder, K. Ansolabehere, and T. Alfonso, Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America, 278–292 (2019); and Reconstructing Big Law, co-edited with D. Hensler, M. Selvin, and P. Hanlon (Edward Elgar, 2020).

Florian Grisel

is a Research Fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), where he is the Deputy-Director of the Centre de théorie et analyse du droit (Université Paris 10 Nanterre—ENS—CNRS). He is also an Associate Professor (Reader) in Transnational Law at King’s College London. He has published widely on the emergence of judicial governance in local and transnational settings. His last book, The Evolution of International Arbitration (with Alec Stone Sweet), was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. He was the recipient of the Bronze Medal of the CNRS in 2018.

Priya S. Gupta

is a Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, where she teaches Property, Public International Law, Law and Development, and Race and the Law. Prior to joining Southwestern, she was Assistant Professor and (founding) Co-Director of the Centre for Women, Law, and Social Change at the Jindal Global Law School in Delhi NCR, India. Her research is in property law and theory, economic development, and local government from critical race and postcolonial perspectives. Her recent scholarly work engages with comparative and transnational urban property regimes against the background of the economic transformation from industrial to finance capitalism.

Terence Halliday

is Research Professor, American Bar Foundation, and Honorary Professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, The Australian National University. A sociologist of globalization and law, his recent books on global norms for markets and basic legal freedoms, published by Cambridge University Press, include Transnational Legal Orders (edited with Gregory Shaffer, 2015); Global Lawmakers: International Organizations in the Crafting of World Markets (authored with Susan Block-Lieb, 2017); Criminal Defense in China (authored with Sida Liu, 2016); and Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order (edited with Gregory Shaffer and Tom Ginsburg, 2019).

John Harrington

is Professor of Global Health Law, Cardiff University. Recent publications include Towards a Rhetoric of Medical Law (2017) (Harrington), and Land, Constitutionalism and the Struggle for Justice (forthcoming 2020) (Manji). John Harrigton and Ambreena Manji write together on the history of legal education in the period of decolonization and on law and politics in East Africa. They are founding directors of Cardiff Law and Global Justice, a research institute committed to integrating legal activism, critical scholarship, and educational innovation.

Ambreena Manji

is Professor of Land Law and Development, Cardiff University. Recent publications include Towards a Rhetoric of Medical Law (2017) (Harrington), and Land, Constitutionalism and the Struggle for Justice (forthcoming 2020) (Manji). John Harrigton and Ambreena Manji write together on the history of legal education in the period of decolonization and on law and politics in East Africa. They are founding directors of Cardiff Law and Global Justice, a research institute committed to integrating legal activism, critical scholarship, and educational innovation.

Dipika Jain

is currently a Professor of Law and the Executive Director of the Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology (CHLET) at Jindal Global Law School, India. She pursued her LLB from Delhi University and has received her LLM from Harvard Law School.

Satvinder S. Juss

PhD (Cantab.). FRSA, is a Professor of Law at King’s College London, and specializes in identity, integration, social justice, human rights, and constitutional law. A practising barrister, he has been on the Panel “A” of Advocates for the Welsh Government and the Equality & Human Rights Commission. He has appeared in the High Court, Court of Appeal, UK Supreme Court, and the Privy Council. He sits as Judge of the Upper Tribunal.

Ratna Kapur

is a Professor of International Law at the School of Law of Queen Mary University of London and is Senior Core Faculty at the International Global Law and Policy Institute, Harvard Law School.

Vik Kanwar

is a transdisciplinary legal theorist, currently serving as Associate Director of International Programs at Southwestern Law School. His areas of research are in social theory, law and culture, and the intellectual history of international law. His writings thematize law’s fragile claims to autonomy within overlapping fields of normativity, coercion, formalism, and social habit. He has held teaching and research posts at New York University, Harvard, Loyola (New Orleans), and, for several years, at Jindal Global Law School in India, where he was the founding Executive Director of the Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence (CPLJ) and co-founder of the Winter School on Art/Law.

Dionysia Katelouzou

is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Corporate Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. She holds a PhD and an LLM (first class) from the University of Cambridge, while she received her LLB (summa cum laude) from the University of Athens. She is a member of the Bar of Athens and a research associate at the Centre of Business Research at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on corporate governance, law and finance, and securities regulation, generally using an interdisciplinary approach. She has written extensively on shareholder activism, especially the style activist hedge funds engage in, shareholder duties, and the development of shareholder protection using leximetric (quantitative) approaches. Currently, she is studying the development of shareholder stewardship norms at a domestic, EU, and global level, as part of an interdisciplinary project funded by the British Academy and the ESRC.

Laura Knöpfel

is a PhD Candidate and Research Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.

Dr. Prabha Kotiswaran

is Professor of Law and Social Justice at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. Her interests are in the areas of criminal law, transnational criminal law, sociology of law, and feminist legal theory. She has recently published Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2017); Governance Feminism: An Introduction (with Halley, Rebouche, and Shamir, Minnesota University Press, 2018), and Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field (with Halley, Rebouche, and Shamir, Minnesota University Press, 2019).

Karl-Heinz Ladeur

is Emeritus Professor of public law at the University of Hamburg, former Distinguished Bremen Professor at Bremen International Graduate School, former professor at the EUI (Florence), Doctor honoris causa (University of Fribourg, CH), legal education at universities of Cologne and Bonn; former Professor of Environmental law and legal theory at the European University Institute (Florence); numerous publications on public law and legal theory—including transnational law; focus in the last ten years also on law and literature, law and religion (the Jewish concept of law and Islamic law, in particular); recent books: Toleranz—Relgion—Recht, Tübingen: Mohr 2007 (with Ino Augsberg); “Das Recht der Netzwerkgesellschaft” Mohr: Tübingen 2013: collection of articles; editor (with Ino Augsberg): “Talmudische Tradition und moderne Rechtstheorie,” Mohr: Tübingen 2013; Die Textualität des Rechts, Velbrück: Weilerswist, 2015; Recht—Wissen—Kultur: die fragmentierte Ordnung, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2016; Der Anfang des westlichen Rechts, Mohr: Tübingen 2018; Translation of articles into English, French, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese (Brazilian).

Amanda Lagji

is Assistant Professor of English and World Literature at Pitzer College. She has published widely on postcolonial, transnational, and global Anglophone literature, including two essays on law and literature: in Law, Culture and the Humanities, titled, “A Postcolonial Perspective: Law and the Literary World”; and in ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, titled, “Revising the Narrative of Failure: Reconsidering State Failure in Nuruddin Farah’s Knots.” Her other articles have been published in Mobilities, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, South Asian Review, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, and African Literature Today, among others.

Dr. Giulia Claudia Leonelli

is Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Research Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute, School of Law, King’s College London. She has published in the fields of risk regulation, environmental law, judicial review of public health and environmental law, transnational legal theory, and transnational regulatory governance.

Kevin J. Madders

has been active for over three decades in the twin fields of space and digital transformation, as an international civil servant (European Space Agency), an academic, a government and corporate adviser, and a company director and entrepreneur in three countries. He is the author of the first comprehensive work on the European space sector, A New Force at a New Frontier. He has been teaching in his current fields for over a decade at KU Leuven and King’s College London, where he is visiting professor. He has practiced more widely at the London and Brussels bars and been research fellow at the Institute for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. He holds bachelor’s (London), master’s (Yale), and doctoral (Cambridge) degrees, is a barrister of Gray’s Inn, and a lifetime elected member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, among other affiliations.

Christopher Marsden

is Professor of Internet Law at the University of Sussex, founding Director of Sussex Centre for Information Governance Research, and a renowned international expert on internet law, having researched and taught in the field for twenty-five years. His current research examines the regulation of election disinformation and AI (artificial intelligence) on behalf of the European Parliament and Commonwealth of Nations. He is author of seven books and over 140 research publications on internet law and regulation, including Net Neutrality (2017), Regulating Code (2013, with Prof. Ian Brown), and Internet Co-regulation (2011). He was formerly Professor of Law at Essex (2007–2013), having previously researched at RAND (2005–2007), Oxford (2004–2005), and Warwick (1997–2000). He held Visiting Fellowships at UNSW, Harvard, Melbourne, Cambridge, Oxford, USC-Annenberg, Keio, GLOCOM Tokyo, and FGV Rio de Janeiro. He has founded and led teams to successful completion of over twenty externally funded international collaborative projects, including Openlaws.eu [2014–2016] and FP7 European Internet Science (EINS) [2011–2015].

Dr. Stephen Minas

is an Assistant Professor at the School of Transnational Law, Peking University, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London. He is also a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and the Young Academics Network of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies. His research is focused on international, EU, and commercial law related to the clean energy transition and climate change, especially regarding finance and technology.

Cian C. Murphy

is Reader in Law at the University of Bristol. He is a member of the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Research Consortium and the co-Editor in Chief of the Common Law World Review. His is the author of EU Counter-terrorism Law: Pre-emption and the Rule of Law, and of the forthcoming Control Beyond the State: Transnational Counter-terrorism Law.

David Nelken

is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law in the Dickson Poon Law school. He taught previously at Cambridge, Edinburgh, and University College, London, before moving to Italy in 1989 as Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change at the University of Macerata. From 1995 to 2013, he was Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Cardiff University, and from 2010 to 2014, Visiting Professor of Criminology at Oxford University. His work, covering both theoretical enquiry and empirical investigation, lies in the areas of comparative sociology of law, criminology, and legal and social theory.

Jaya Neupaney

is an independent curator based in Los Angeles and Mumbai, and co-founder of the Winter School on Art/Law. She has served as Assistant Curator at the Devi Art Foundation, Director of Programming at Gallery Espace, and Liaison Officer at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. In 2015, drawing on a decade of experience in the field, she helped launch the Winter School as a way to bring interdisciplinary expertise into the dilemmas and inequities of the art world. This has resulted in roundtables and events on issues ranging from the exploitation and harassment of cultural workers (“Gossip, Shame, and Ghostwriting” at Exhibit 320) to the competing concepts of value in art discourse (Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School). Her most recent publication concerns economies of “sharing” and “experience” in contemporary museums (Artem, 2018). She is a graduate of Calcutta University and Santa Monica College.

Dr. Naoyuki Okano

is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, funded by Research Fellowship for Young Scientists from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Phillip Paiement

is an assistant professor in jurisprudence at Tilburg Law School, where he conducts research on transnational environmental and labor governance. His current research project focus on transjurisdictional diffusion of strategic litigation related to climate change, supply chain liability, and land grabs. He is the author of Transnational Sustainability Laws (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and serves as a co-convening editor of Transnational Legal Theory.

Dr. Nicola Palmer

is a senior lecturer in criminal law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, and the author of Courts in Conflict: Interpreting the Layers of Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda (Oxford University Press, paperback 2019). She has written on questions of resistance to mass violence, methodological approaches to transitional justice and the intersections of plural legal processes with support from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the British Academy.

Nicolás M. Perrone

is an Associate Professor of International Law at Andrés Bello University (Chile). His main research interests are in international economic law, particularly in international investment law and policy. He has previously taught at Durham University, the Institute for Global Law and Policy (Harvard Law School), and Externado University of Colombia. He has worked and consulted for the governments of Argentina, Ecuador, and Colombia, the OECD, UNCTAD, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy (Columbia University, Oxford University Press), and his research has been published in journals such as Transnational Legal Theory, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, and the Journal of World Investment & Trade.

Amanda Perry-Kessaris

is a Professor of Law at Kent Law School. She has qualifications in law, economics, and graphic design and specializes in empirically grounded, theoretically informed, cross-disciplinary approaches to law. Her current research follows two threads. With the support of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, she is completing a monograph, Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode, for publication by Routledge in 2020. With the support of the Sociolegal Studies Association, she is investigating the role of law in the island-wide economic life of Cyprus. Her earlier work focused on foreign investment in Sri Lanka and India. She has a long-standing interest in law and development, having written two monographs and multiple articles, as well as editing three books and multiple special journal issues in the field.

Jothie Rajah

is Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, Chicago. A law-and-language scholar, she has published widely on rule of law, with attention to transnational, global, contemporary, and colonial dimensions of rule of law.

Djakhongir Saidov

is Professor of Commercial Law at King’s College London. His research and teaching interests lie in international and comparative commercial law, on which he has written extensively. Professor Saidov was a Reporter to the CISG Advisory Council (CISG-AC) on its Opinion No. 19, ‘Standards and Conformity of the Goods under Article 35 CISG’. He is the Editor of the English Sale of Goods Law section in the LMCLQ Yearbook of International Maritime and Commercial Law and an Academic Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Law in the National University of Singapore.

Eric Scarffe

is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Boston University. His dissertation, “Moving Toward a Dignity-Based Approach to International Law,” develops a novel account of the binding force of international law. Some of his work has been published in the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence.

Sara L. Seck

is Associate Professor & Associate Dean, Research, Schulich School of Law, Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University.

Gregory Shaffer

is Chancellor’s Professor and Director of the Center on Globalization, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine. His publications include seven books and over one hundred articles and book chapters, including Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order (with Ginsburg and Halliday, 2019); Transnational Legal Orders (with Halliday, 2015); Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change (2013); Dispute Settlement at the WTO: The Developing Country Experience (with Melendez, 2011); When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (with Pollack, 2008); Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation (2003); and Transatlantic Governance in the Global Economy (with Pollack, 2001).

Mathias Siems

is Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. He is on special leave from Durham University, where he has been Professor of Commercial Law since 2011. Previously, he was a professor at the University of East Anglia, a reader at the University of Edinburgh, an associate professor at the Riga Graduate School of Law, a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI. His research on both comparative and commercial law also relates those areas to the growing transnationalization of legal systems.

Alexander Somek

is a Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Vienna Faculty of Law. He previously held the Charles E. Floete Chair in Law at the University of Iowa from November 2006 to June 2015. He primarily researches in the areas of public law and legal philosophy.

Chris Thornhill

is Professor in Law at the University of Manchester, UK. He has previously held professorial positions in different disciplines at King’s College London and Glasgow University and visiting Professorships in Chile and Brazil. His recent major publications are: A Sociology of Constitutions (2001); A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions (2016); and The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy (2018).

William Twining

is Quain Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus of University College London.

René Urueña

is an Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Universidad de Los Andes School of Law (Colombia). Three times an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Professor Urueña served as an adviser of the Selection Committee of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Colombia), has published extensively on international law and global governance, and serves on the editorial board of the International Organizations Law Review, Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, and Latin American Law Review. He holds a doctoral degree (exima cum laude) from the University of Helsinki, was President of the Colombian Academy of International Law, and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Tel-Aviv and Utah, a docent at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, and a research fellow at New York University and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law.

Cees van Dam

is Professor of International Business and Human Rights at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Professor of European Tort Law at Maastricht University, and Visiting Professor at King’s College London. He is an expert in international business and human rights (Cees van Dam, Enhancing Human Rights Protection. A Company Lawyer’s Business, Inaugural Lecture Rotterdam, 2017), and in international, European, and comparative tort law (Cees van Dam, European Tort Law, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2013).

Horatia Muir Watt

is Professor at the Law School, Sciences-po Paris, where she currently co-directs the specialty “Global Governance Studies” within the Master of Economic Law. She teaches and publishes in the field of private international law and comparative law, where she develops critical and interdisciplinary approaches. She was elected in 2013 to the Institute of International Law and in 2018 to the Institut Universitaire de France. She is Director of the Revue critique de droit international privé.

Dai Yokomizo

is Professor of Law at Nagoya University, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya, Japan. His main research and teaching interests include Conflict of Laws (Private International Law), Comparative Law, and Private Law Theory. His recent articles include “Conflict of Laws in the Era of Globalization,” Japanese Yearbook of International Law, 57 (2014): 179–194.

Peer Zumbansen

is the inaugural Professor of Transnational Law, Founding Director of the Transnational Law Institute at the Dickson Poon School of Law and Editor of the Cambridge Studies in Transnational Law. Since January 2020, he is Professor of Business Law, McGill University, Faculty of Law.