Julien Chaisse
is a professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong (CityU), specialising in international economic law, cyberlaw, and international dispute resolution. With expertise in trade, investment, and tax matters, he has garnered recognition for his contributions to the field, including receiving the prestigious Smit-Lowenfeld Prize from the International Arbitration Club of New York in 2020. Dr. Chaisse’s extensive experience extends beyond academia, as he serves on corporate and advisory boards for international organisations. As the President and Chair of the Asia Pacific fdi Network, he leads collaborative research on foreign direct investment. Additionally, Dr. Chaisse is a distinguished senior arbitrator listed on the panels of major arbitration institutions.
Erin Daly
is a Professor of Law and Director of the Dignity Rights Clinic, Widener University Delaware Law School and former Director of Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (gnhre) 2017–2021. Major publications include: Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person (2d ed. U. Penn 2020); with James R. May: Dignity Law: Global Recognition, Cases, and Perspectives (W.S. Hein 2020) (Casebook); Global Environmental Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press 2015); Human Rights and the Environment: Indivisibility, Dignity, Legality, Geography, Encyclopedia of Environmental Law (Edward Elgar Press 2019), (ed.); Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism: Current Global Challenges (Cambridge University Press 2018) (ed.); and Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (U. Penn., Human Rights Series 2006; paperback 2010), with Jeremy Sarkin.
John W.H. Denton AO
is Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris. John was formerly Partner and ceo of Corrs Chambers Westgarth. He is a member of the Board of the global infrastructure investor – ifm Global Investors and a member of the Board of the UN Global Compact. He was a member of the Australian Government advisory panel overseeing the development of the ‘Australia in the Asian Century’ White Paper. John has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Melbourne and is a Harvard Business School Alumnus.
is professor of European law at the University of Amsterdam and director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (acelg). She has published widely on the internal constitutional consequences of the European Union’s external actions, a comprehensive account of which was published as a monograph entitled EU Powers under External Pressure – How the EU’s External Actions Alter its Internal Structures (Oxford University Press, 2019). Her current research interests are the separation of powers in 21st century Europe, the legal exceptionalism of climate litigation, climate constitutionalisation, the normative relevance of climate science, and climate governance in the growing dissensus on liberal democracy.
Elaine Fahey
is Professor of Law at the Institute for the Study of European Law (isel), the City Law School, City, University of London and Deputy Head of Department (academic programmes) and co-convener of the Institute for the Study of European Law (isel), City Law School. She has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in Law and Transatlantic Relations 2019-2022. In 2022/2023 she is Senior Land Steiermark Fellow of Law and Innovation at the University of Graz, Austria and a visiting Professor at Washington College of Law (wcl), American University, Washington DC. Her monograph, the EU as a Global Digital Actor was published by Hart in 2023 and she has recently edited the Routledge Research Handbook on Transatlantic Relations, published in 2023.
James Flett
was until recently Deputy to the Director of the Trade Policy and wto Team of the European Commission Legal Service. He has represented the European Commission before the European Court of Justice and the European Union before the wto in more than 300 proceedings. Mr. Flett graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has a Master’s degree in European law from the College of Europe, Bruges. He is a qualified solicitor. Before joining the Commission Legal Service, he spent several years working for two international law firms in London and Brussels. He has published widely on international trade law and teaches WTO Law at Leuven University, WTO dispute settlement law at the Academy of International Economic Law and Policy and WTO subsidies law at the World Trade Institute.
Henry Gao
is Professor of Law at Singapore Management University and Senior Fellow at cigi. With law degrees from three continents, he started his career as the first
Merit E. Janow
is an internationally recognized expert in international economic law and policy. She was Dean of the Faculty of sipa from 2013–2021, and remains on the faculty. Janow has had three periods of government service: from 2003–2008, she served as the North American member of the wto Appellate Body; from 1997–2000, Janow served as the Executive Director of the first international antitrust advisory committee to the Attorney General. From 1989 to 1993, Janow served as Deputy Assistant ustr for Japan and China. Janow has extensive corporate and nonprofit board experience. She speaks Japanese and has a JD from Columbia Law School and a ba in Asian Studies from the University of Michigan.
Pascal Lamy
is the former President of the Paris Peace Forum, and the current President of the European branch of the Brunswick Group. He coordinates the Jacques Delors Institutes (Paris, Berlin, Brussels). He is an affiliated professor at the China Europe International Business School ceibs (Shanghai) and at hec (Paris). From 2005 to 2013, Lamy served two consecutive terms as Director-General of the World Trade Organization. He was previously Trade Commissioner, Director General of Crédit Lyonnais, Chief of Staff of the President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors and his G7 Sherpa, Deputy Chief of Staff of the French Prime Minister and to the French Minister of the Economy and Finance.
Maria Laura Marceddu
specializes in international investment law. She is Visiting Max Weber Fellow (eui). She obtained her PhD at King’s College London where she has been appointed a fellow at the Center of European Law. She is also fellow at the Edinburgh Center for International and Global Law (ecigl). Since 2018 she has been treasurer of the Society of International Economic Law, where she also chairs the siel Online Conversations.
worked as legal counsel in Germany’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, gatt and the wto, and taught international and European law at the Universities of St. Gallen, Fribourg, Geneva and the European University Institute at Florence, where he served as head of the Law Department. He taught at the Hague and Xiamen Academies of International Law, the eui Academy of European Law, and at numerous Universities in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the USA, Latin-America, South-Africa, China, India and Singapore. His publications include more than 35 books and 380 contributions to books and academic journals.
Armin Steinbach
holds the Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law and Economics and the hec Foundation Chair of Law at the École des hautes études commerciales (hec) in Paris. He is also research affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (Bonn, Germany) and non-resident fellow at the Brussels-based economic think tank Bruegel. As government official for more than ten years, Armin headed the fiscal policy division in the German Ministry of Finance, the economic policy division in the Ministry of Economic and Energy Affairs, and served as ministerial secondment in the German parliament. He worked at the World Trade Organization (wto) and as attorney-at-law with the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
Maria Antonia Tigre
is a Senior Fellow, Global Climate Change Litigation, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and Deputy Director of Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (gnhre). Major publications include: Regional Cooperation in Amazonia: A Comparative Environmental Law Analysis (Brill∣Nijhoff, 2017); Gaps in International Environmental Law: Toward a Global Pact for the Environment (eli Press, 2020); Exploring the Bedrock of Earth Jurisprudence, 22 Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion 223–313 (2022); Climate Change and Indigenous Groups: The Rise of Indigenous Voices in Climate Litigation, 9(3) E-Publica 214 (2022).
Natalia Urzola
is a S.J.D student, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University. ll.m, University of California at Berkeley (2020). Chief Operating Officer at the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (gnhre). Recent publications include: Climate litigation in Latin America: is the region quietly leading a revolution? (with Maria A. Tigre and Alexandra Goodman, Journal
Peter Van den Bossche
is Director of Studies of the World Trade Institute and Professor of International Economic Law, University of Bern, Switzerland; President of the Society of International Economic Law (siel); and former Member and Chair of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (2009–2019).
Weihuan Zhou
is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the China International Business and Economic Law (cibel) Centre at the Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales Sydney. He publishes widely in the field of international economic law, particularly on the nexus between international trade law and China. His work has been cited in reports of the European Parliament, the Parliament of Australia, Australia’s Productivity Commission, US Congressional Research Services and World Economic Forum. Dr Zhou is co-Secretary of the Society of International Economic Law (siel) and sits on the editorial boards of the World Trade Review and the Journal of International Trade Law and Policy.