Edited by Mads Andenas, Professor of Law, University of Oslo, and Duncan Fairgrieve, Fellow in Comparative Law and Director of the Tort Law Centre at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Professor Andenas has been the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) since 2008. He holds the degrees of Cand jur (Oslo), Ph D (Cambridge) and MA and DPhil (Oxford). He has held a number of senior academic appointments in the United Kingdom, including as Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London and Director of the Centre of European Law at King>'s College, University of London. He remains a Fellow of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford and at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, and Professor of Law, University of Oslo.
Duncan Fairgrieve is Fellow in Comparative Law and Director of the Tort Law Centre at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is also Maître de Conférences at Sciences Po, Paris. He holds degrees from Oxford, London and Paris.
Contributors:
The Honourable Mr Justice Aikens (Sir Richard Aikens) is a member of the High Court of England and Wales.
Professor Guido Alpa is a Professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and the President of the Italian Bar Council.
Professor Mads Andenas is a Professor at the University of Oslo and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.
The Right Honourable Lady Justice Arden DBE (Dame Mary Arden) is a member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Professor John Bell is a Professor at the University of Cambridge.
The Honorable Justice Stephen Breyer is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Professor Andrew Burrows is Professor at the University of Oxford.
Conseiller Guy Canivet is Premier président honoraire de la Cour de cassation and Membre of the Conseil Constitutionnel, France.
The Right Honourable Sir Anthony Clarke is the Master of the Rolls (President of the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal), the Royal Courts of Justice, London.
Richard Clayton QC, is a barrister at Matrix Chambers, Gray's Inn, London.
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Collins (Sir Lawrence Collins) is a member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
The Right Honourable Lord Cooke of Thorndon (Robin Brunskill Cooke), (9 May 1926 - 30 August 2006), served as President New Zealand Court of Appeal and as a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords.
Jean-Paul Costa is Conseiller d'Etat honoraire and President of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg.
Professor Paul Craig is a Professor at the University of Oxford.
The Honourable Mr Justice Cranston (Sir Ross Cranston) is a member of the High Court of England and Wales.
Professor J H Dalhuisen is a Professor at King's College, University of London.
Conseiller Olivier Dutheillet de Lamothe is a member of Conseil constitutionnel, France.
The Right Honourable Dame Sian Elias is the Chief Justice of New Zealand.
Roger Errera is Conseiller d'Etat honoraire and Visiting Professor at the Central European University, Budapest.
Duncan Fairgrieve is a Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London and Maître de Conférences, Sciences Po, Paris.
Steven Gee QC is a barrister at Stone Chambers, Gray's Inn, London.
Professor Baron Walter Van Gerven is a Professor at the University of Leuven, and a former Advocate General to the Court of Justices of the European Communities, Luxembourg.
The Honourable Chief Justice Anthony Gleeson is the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
Professor Sir Roy Goode QC is a Professor of the University of Oxford.
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh is a barrister at Matrix Chambers, Gray's Inn, London.
Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel QC is a barrister at One Crown Office Row, Temple, London.
The Right Honourable Baroness Hale is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Her Excellency Dame Rosalyn Higgins is the President of the International Court of Justice, The Hague.
The Honourable Justice David Ipp is Judge of Appeal, the New South Wales Court of Appeal, Australia.
The Right Honourable Professor Sir Francis Jacobs is a Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Professor at King's College London; Advocate General, Court of Justice of the European Communities, 1988-2006.
Professor Jeffrey Jowell QC is a Professor at University College, University of London, and a practising barrister at Blackstone Chambers.
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Keene (Sir David Keene) ) is a member for the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
The Honourable Justice Michael Kirby is a Justice of the High Court of Australia.
Professor Vaughan Lowe is Chichele Professor of Public International Law and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University.
Professor Sir Basil Markesinis QC has held chairs at the universities of London and Oxford, and presently at the University of Texas.
Professor Robert McCorquodale is Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Nottingham.
The Right Honourable Beverley MacLachlin PC is the Chief Justice of Canada.
Professor Horatia Muir-Watt is a Professor at University of Paris I, Panthéon- Sorbonne.
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Mummery (Sir John Mummery ) is a member for the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Professor Dawn Oliver is a Professor at University College, University of London.
The Right Honourable Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers is the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, London.
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Rix (Sir Bernard Rix) ) is a member for the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
The Honourable Mr Justice Sales (Sir Philip Sales) is a member of the High Court of England and Wales and Formerly First Treasury Counsel, Common Law.
Professor Phillippe Sands QC is a Professor at University College, University of London.
Jean-Marc Sauvé is Vice-President of the Conseil d'Etat, France.
The Right Honourable Sir Konrad Schiemann is a Judge at the European Court of Justice and former Lord Justice.
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Sedley (Sir Stephen Sedley) is a member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Professor Brian Simpson is a Professor at the University of Michigan
Vassilios Skouris is the President of the Court of Justice to the European Communities, Luxembourg.
Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Princeton.
John Sorabji is a Barrister and Legal Secretary to the Master of the Rolls.
Professor Jane Stapleton is Ernest E. Smith Professor at the the University of Texas, Austin, a Research Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Statutory Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University, and Commonwealth Fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London.
Bernard Stirn is the Président de Section du Contentieux, Conseil d'Etat, Paris.
Patrick Titiun, is a French magistrate and the Head of Cabinet of the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg.
Professor Gillian Triggs is the Dean of the School of Law at the University of Sydney.
Hugh Tomlinson QC is a barrister at Matrix Chambers, Gray's Inn, London.
Professor Colin Warbrick is Barber Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham.
Professor Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich is a Professor at University of Roma Tre.