Nancy Combs is the Ernest W. Goodrich Professor of Law and the Director of the Human Security Law Center at William & Mary Law School. She graduated first in her class from Berkeley Law School and received her Ph.D. from Leiden University. Professor Combs has served as a law clerk on the U.S Supreme Court and a legal adviser to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal. She has written extensively on international criminal justice, publishing two books and dozens of articles and essays.

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Tomas Hamilton holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Oxford, an LLB from the London College of Law, an LLM from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Law from King’s College London. Prior to joining Rethinking SLIC*, Tomas worked for the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT) at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC), in judicial chambers at the International Criminal Court (ICC), and at a leading criminal law firm in London.

Professor Mohamed Elewa Badar is the Chair of Comparative and International Criminal Law & Islamic Law at Northumbria University, UK. He is the Regional Liaison Officer for Southwest Asia and North Africa, War Crimes Committee of the International Bar Association and the Legal Consultant for Al Hassan Defense Team before the International Criminal Court.

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Antonio Coco is a Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Essex, and a Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford. He is one of the Co-Chairs of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice and holds a PhD in Law from the University of Geneva. Antonio works primarily in the areas of international law applicable to digital technologies, international criminal law, and general international law.

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ZHU Dan is an Associate Professor in International Law at Fudan University Law School and member of the Chinese Bar. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, an LL.M. from Xiamen University, and an LL.B. from Jilin University. Before joining Fudan, she worked at the Registry Legal Advisory Service Section and the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court.

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Panagiota holds an LLB in Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an LLM in Public International Law from the Democritus University of Thrace, and a PhD in International Law from the University of Sheffield. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Law, Sustainability & Justice, Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark, where she conducts research on corporate human rights obligations and due diligence in international law. Her PhD thesis is on the individual criminal responsibility of company directors under the Rome Statute.

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Marjolein Cupido currently works as program manager at the Academy for Legislation and Government Lawyers in The Hague. Previously, she worked as Assistant Professor (International) Criminal Law at VU University Amsterdam and as fellow of the Center for International Criminal Justice (CICJ). In 2017, Marjolein was appointed as Deputy Judge at the District Court of Rotterdam. In that same year, she was also appointed as Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court for the Defence in the Bemba et al. case.

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Shane Darcy is Deputy Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law at NUI Galway. He holds a B.A. in Law and Accounting from the University of Limerick (2001), and LL.M (2002) and Ph.D (2005) degrees from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has been a visiting scholar at the Legal Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at the University of Queensland and the Law School at Doshisha University In Kyoto.

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Miles Jackson is currently an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Dean and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He has a range of research interests in international and criminal law, and in 2015 published his monograph, Complicity in International Law (Oxford University Press). In 2017, he was awarded the Cassese Prize for International Criminal Law Studies.

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Rana Moustafa Essawy is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Alexandria University (Egypt). Her thesis 'The Doctrine of Implied Powers in International Law' was awarded the Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali prize for the second-best PhD in Egypt for 2018-19. Her recent publication is entitled ‘The United States Hegemony and Reshaping the Norms of State Immunity for International Crimes’, in International Law of Sovereign Immunity Under Pressure: Clashing Norms, Values and Interests (R. Bismuth et al. (eds.)), Springer, 2022.

Franziska’s research focuses on the intersection of human rights protection and corporate liability in international and transnational criminal law. She is the author of various publications in the field of international criminal law and business and human rights and worked as a lawyer at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) on a criminal complaint against German textile companies regarding forced labour in their supply chains.

Dr. Yahia Omar Marwan Arafa holds a Master’s degree in International Legal Commercial Transactions and Logistics and a PhD in Criminal Policy in Money Laundering from Cairo University. He has served in various judicial roles, including as a judge at the Council of State, as a Prosecutor and, currently, as Chief Prosecutor at the Judicial Inspection Department. Dr. Yahia Marwan has been active as a Legal Advisor to the Committee on Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as a Legal Advisor at the Egyptian Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Unit (EMLCU). As a lecturer and researcher at various institutions, his work focuses on terrorism prevention, countering money laundering, and the judiciary's role in intelligence cooperation.