Niki Aloupi
is Professor of Public International Law at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas. She is the Director of the IHEI (Institut des Hautes Études Internationales) and of the master’s degree in international administration. She is the co-director of the Environmental Studies Center of her University. She is a member of the scientific committee of several international law journals and assistant treasurer of the French Society of International Law. She has served as Secretary-Editor of the Institute of International Law and as representative of the UNHCR to the French Asylum Court. Since January 2023, she is a member of the Legal and Technical Commission of the International Seabed Authority.
Hadi Azari
is Professor of Public International Law at Kharazmi University of Tehran, where he teaches public international law, international dispute settlement, and the international law of State responsibility. He is the author of numerous publications on these topics and appears as counsel and advocate before the International Court of Justice. Hadi was an invited professor at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas).
Christina L. Beharry
is a Partner in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department in Washington, D.C. where she focuses on public international law, international arbitration, and trade and investment policy. Prior to joining Foley Hoag, she practiced in the Government of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as well as Industry Canada. Ms. Beharry holds law degrees from the London School of Economics, Cambridge University, and Columbia Law School and is a member of the Bars of Ontario, the District of Columbia, New York, and England & Wales.
Christina Binder
holds the Chair of International Law and International Human Rights Law at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich since April 2017. Before, she was University Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna. Christina was member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) 2014-2022 and also served as ESIL’s Vice-President. She is member of the Council of the Global Campus of Human Rights since 2019. Christina is
Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen
is Professor of Law at the Sorbonne Law School (Université Paris 1). Between 2012 and 2019, she was a member of the Constitutional Court of Andorra and, between 2014 and 2016, its President. She researches and teaches in the areas of Human Rights Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and European and International Law. Her book on The 3 Regional Human Rights Courts in Context (OUP, 2024) has been awarded by the American Branch of the International Law Association (ILA) as the “ABILA Book Award of the Year” in October 2024.
Carlotta Ceretelli
is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in International Law at the University of Padova, School of Law. She has published in the field of international dispute settlement, with a specific focus on general procedural principles. She is currently finalizing a book project on the concept of sound administration of justice in international adjudication.
Jorge Contesse
is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Transnational Law at Rutgers University. He is a member of the United Nations Committee against Torture and serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. He holds an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale University and an LL.B. from Diego Portales University.
Rukmini Das
is lecturer at the Geneva LLM in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS). She occasionally guests lectures at other educational institutions, and has a number of publications in the field of international dispute settlement. Her prior experiences include working as an international consultant at the International Trade Centre, Geneva, as a Swiss National Science Foundation researcher at the University of Geneva, at law firms, and at a legal policy organisation advising the Government of India. Rukmini has a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the University of Geneva, on the Use of Scientific Experts in International Disputes.
holds a Ph.D. in Public International Law from the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy), and a Bachelor and LLM from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). Mariana has been a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, the University of Geneva and the World Trade Organization PhD Support Programme.
Arnaud de Nanteuil
is Professor at University Paris Est Créteil, France. He teaches mainly international law, investment law, international trade law and European law, and he is the director of an LLM program on international business dispute settlement. He is the author of many publications in international law, including a textbook on international investment law and a collective book on landmark decisions in public international law. He also acts as counsel, expert or arbitrator in arbitration involving States or public entities.
Marco Dimetto
is Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Padova, School of Law. His publications address issues of international dispute settlement, international economic law, and international law of immunities. He was awarded the 2021 Rosalyn Higgins Prize by The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, and the 2024 Annual Prize of the Italian Society of International Law.
Zachary Douglas
is Full Professor at LUISS in Rome and Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute in Geneva where he is also the Director of the Masters of International Dispute Settlement. He is a Barrister and King’s Counsel at the London Bar and a member of 3VB Chambers. He has an extensive practice as arbitrator and counsel in international cases.
Gian Maria Farnelli
is Associate Professor of International Law at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna. He has been counsel in inter-state disputes and assistant to arbitrator in investor-state disputes. His publications address issues of law of the sea, environmental law, State immunity, investment law and the law of international adjudication.
Serena Forlati
Law graduate (Florence), LLM (Bruges), PhD (Rome-La Sapienza), is Professor of International Law at the Department of Law, University of Ferrara.
Giorgio Gaja
is Emeritus Professor of International Law at the University of Florence. Former Judge at the International Court of Justice (2012-2021). Former member of the International Law Commission (1999-2011). Member of the Institute of International Law.
Andrea Gattini
is Full Professor of International Law at the University of Padova, School of Law. He is an associated member of the Institut des Hautes Études Internationales (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas) and several other international academic institutions. Formerly, he had been counsel of the Federal Republic of Germany before the International Court of Justice in the Jurisdictional Immunities of the State case.
Craig D. Gaver
is an attorney based in Washington, DC whose practice includes public international law, international arbitration, and domestic litigation with an international nexus. He holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School and a J.D. from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.
Chiara Giorgetti
is Professor of Law at Richmond Law School and Senior Fellow at International Claims and Reparations Project at Columbia Law School. She is also Vice-Chair of the Board of the Register of Damage for Ukraine. She has published eleven books and more than eighty articles and chapters on matters of public international law, mostly on issue of international dispute resolution. She has almost thirty years of experience in international dispute resolution, as counsel, expert and adjudicator.
Andrea Hamann
is Professor of Public Law at the University of Strasbourg. Her areas of interest include international adjudication, international economic law, in particular international trade law, knowledge production in international law, critical theory, and international law as language.
Alexandre Hermet
is Professor of Law at Sciences Po Toulouse, the institute of political studies affiliated with the University of Toulouse, France. His research and teaching
Gleider Hernández
D.Phil (Oxon), LL.M (Leiden), LL.B & BCL (McGill), is Professor of Public International Law at the Catholic University of Leuven. He previously lectured at Durham University where he was also Deputy Director of the Durham Global Policy Institute, and was Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice. He is President of the European Society of International Law (2023-2025), on the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of International Law and Global Policy, and on the Academic Review Board of the Cambridge International Law Journal. He is also General Editor of the Oxford Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction.
Andreas Kulick
is Professor, Chair of Public International Law at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz; Dr. iur. (2011) and Habilitation (2019), Eberhard Karls University Tübingen; LL.M., NYU School of Law (2009); studies at Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Humboldt University Berlin; Member of the ILA Committees on “Business and Human Rights” and “Submarine Cables and Pipelines under International Law”; counsel and advisor to states in proceedings before international courts and tribunals.
Lyna Maaziz
is Doctor of Law. In 2022, she defended a thesis concerning The jurisdiction of ad hoc Arbitral Tribunals of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Annex VII Arbitration) at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas. She is Lecturer and Researcher at Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, and resident at Galatasaray Üniversitesi (GSÜ) in Istanbul, Türkiye. She is specialized in judicial and arbitral settlement of international disputes, and the law of the sea. She is author of several publications in these fields, as well as in sports arbitration and sports disciplinary procedures.
Loris Marotti
is an Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Naples Federico II, having previously held research and teaching positions at the University of Milan and the University for Foreigners of Perugia. As a generalist
Petros C Mavroidis
is the Edwin B Parker Professor at Columbia Law School, and a member of the Institut de droit international. His latest publication is Industrial Policy, National Security and the Perilous Plight of the WTO (Oxford, 2025).
Makane Moïse Mbengue
is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva and Director of the Department of International Law and International Organisation. He is also an affiliate professor at Sciences Po Paris (School of Law). He is a Member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law and an Associate Member of the Institut de droit international. He acts as counsel in disputes before international courts and tribunals (in particular, before the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea), as arbitrator (in investment cases) and as advisor for governments across the world. He is the author of several publications in the field of general international law and international dispute settlement.
Alina Miron
is Professor of International Law at the University of Angers, and Founding partner at FAR Avocats.
Matina Papadaki
is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Glasgow, an International Law Researcher at the Academy of Athens and at the Athens Public International Law (AthensPIL) Centre. She has previously worked at the Max Planck Institute for International Procedural Law (EiPro) and she has practical experience of working at the International Law Commission. Her research and publications focus on procedural law before international courts and tribunals and sources of law.
Katherine Peiffer
is an associate in the International Litigation and Arbitration Department of Foley Hoag LLP, where she represents States and State-owned entities before international courts and tribunals. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of British Columbia.
is a senior associate at BDK Advokati, Belgrade, Serbia, where he focuses on public law litigation, constitutional litigation, and international litigation and arbitration. He is the author of the book Beyond Consent: Revisiting Jurisdiction in Investment Treaty Arbitration (Brill 2021), as well as of several articles and chapters in the field of international dispute resolution. He holds a PhD from the University of Luxembourg, an Advanced LLM from Leiden University, an LLM and an LLB from the University of Novi Sad.
Niccolò Ridi
is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Public International Law at King’s College London, where he is also an Associate Director of the Centre for International Governance and Dispute Resolution (CIGAD). His research focuses on international dispute settlement, international economic law, and computational analysis of international law. Prior to joining King’s, he held positions at the University of Copenhagen, the University of Liverpool, and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He obtained degrees from the Universities of Florence (LLB and MA), Cambridge (LLM), and King’s College London (PhD). He is an Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.
Sunayana Sasmal
is Research Fellow in International Trade Law based at the University of Sussex and a legal consultant for TULIP Consulting. The interlinkages of trade and investment with industrial policy, climate action and sustainability have been her predominant research interests in the recent past. She earned an LL.M. as a Jagdish Bhagwati Fellow at Columbia Law School, New York, and an undergraduate law degree specializing in trade law from National Law University, Jodhpur in India.
Linos-Alexander Sicilianos
is Professor of International Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Athens; Former Judge at and President of the European Court of Human Rights (2011-2021); 2nd Vice-President of the Institute of International Law; Member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law; Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration; Member (2002-2009), Vice-Chairman (2004-2005) and Rapporteur (2008-2009) of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Member (1997-2009) and Chairman (2003-2004) of the Committee of experts of the Council of Europe for the Improvement of Procedures for the Protection of Human Rights; has
Yoshifumi Tanaka
is Professor of International Law with a specific focus on the law of the sea, at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has authored five books: Predictability and Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation (Hart Publishing 2006; 2nd edn 2019), A Dual Approach to Ocean Governance (Ashgate 2008), The International Law of the Sea (1st edition, Cambridge University Press 2012; 4th edn 2023), The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes (Cambridge University Press 2018), and The South China Sea Arbitration (Hart Publishing 2019). He is also a co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Polar Law (Routledge 2023).
Roberto Virzo
Ph.D. (University of Bari), is Full Professor of International Law at the University of Messina, an Adjunct Professor of International Law at LUISS University, and a legal expert of International Law of the sea at the Legal Affairs Service, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is co-editor of 9 books, as well as author of 2 monographs and more than 80 scientific articles and essays in various fields of International Law.
Philippa Webb
is Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government. She is also a barrister specializing in international law. Philippa Webb has held positions in the Presidency of the International Court of Justice, the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and in United Nations Headquarters. Her publications include The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law (2021, with A Clooney) and Oppenheim’s International Law: United Nations (2017, with Dame Rosalyn Higgins GBE KC, D Akande, S Sivakumaran and J Sloan), and The Law of State Immunity (2015, with Lady Fox KC).
Andreas Zimmermann
is Professor of Constitutional and International Law, University of Potsdam and Director of the Potsdam Centre of Human Rights; Dr. jur. (Heidelberg), LL.M. (Harvard); inter alia member of the advisory board on public international law of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs; member of the advisory committee