Michał Balcerzak
is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political and Security Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, and the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Szczecin. He served as a judge ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights (2018–2022). Since 2022 he has been a member, vice-chair (2022-2024) and chair (2024-2026) of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Władysław Czapliński
is Professor of International and European law, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Professor at the University of Warsaw Center for Europe; Visiting Professor, Univertsities of Paris ii and Paris xi, Nice-Cote d’Azur, Frankfurt/Oder (Viadrina), Rome (lumsa) and Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He was Rapporteur, ila Committee on State Succession, and Chairperson, ila Committee on Recognition/Non-Recognition. Currently he serves as a Co-Chair, ila Committee on Abuses of International Law. Author of numerous publications on State responsibility, State succession, and theoretical problems of international law.
Malgosia Fitzmaurice
is Professor at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London and holds a chair of public international law. She is a full Member of the Institue de Droit International. In 2021 she was awarded the Doctorate Honoris Causa of the University of Neuchâtel. She specialises in international environmental law, the law of treaties, and indigenous peoples. She is Editor in Chief of International Community Law Review journal.
Michał Kowalski
is Professor of International Law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, Faculty of Law and Administration, Chair of Public International Law and Vice Dean for International Relations. Head of the doctoral program in law at the Jagiellonian University Doctoral School of Social Sciences. Conciliator at the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration in Geneva (2019–2025). Expert for the Human Dimension Mechanism appointed by the OSCE (2023-2029). Member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (2014-2021 and since 2024). Member of the International
Roman Kwiecień
is Professor of Law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and holds a Chair of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration. He served as an arbitrator at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2018–2024) and serves as an arbitrator at the osce Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (since 2019).
Agnes Rydberg
holds a Ph.D. in Public International Law from Queen Mary University of London, where she also completed an llm. She also has a BSc in International Law from Orebro University in Sweden. She is a lecturer in international law at the University of Sheffield School of Law where she also serves as a Deputy Director of the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law and Deputy Director of Internationalisation.
Raphael Schäfer
holds his Dr. iur. from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His main fields of research include international humanitarian law, history and basics of international law, global history, national and international judiciary, comparative public law, legal theory, law and literature.
Barbara Stępień
holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and is an Assistant Professor at the Chair of Public International Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She is currently leading a research project titled ‘Autonomous and unmanned vessels in international law: Yara Birkeland as a challenge to the law of the sea’, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant No. 101038097.
Christian J. Tams
is Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow and at Sorbonne Law School in Paris. He is a Vice-President of the European Society of International Law and sits on the Council of the German Society of