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Professor Alan Dignam graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1990. He received his doctorate in 1995. He joined Queen Mary, University of London in 1998 having been a lecturer in law at Dublin City University and Sussex University. His major research interests are company law, corporate governance and the application of Constitutional Rights/Human Rights to corporations.

Alison Firth is Emeritus Professor at University of Surrey and convenes the International and Comparative Law of Trade Marks, Designs and Unfair Competition course.

Alison originally read physics at Oxford (St Hugh's College); later she took an MSc in polymer physics and taught physics and mathematics in London and in Lima, Peru. Pursuing an interest in patents, she qualified as a barrister and has practised in intellectual property chambers since 1983 (currently as a door tenant at Ingenuity Intellectual Property Chambers). From 1987 - 2004, Professor Alison firth was a full time member of the Intellectual Property law unit at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London where she was a visiting Professor. From 2005-2009 Alison was Professor of Commercial Law at Newcastle Law School, where she is now a visiting professor. From 1994-2007 she was honorary legal adviser to the British Copyright Council. In February 2009, she took up a chair in law at Surrey. On her retirement in 2012 she was appointed Professor Emeritus in law at the University of Surrey. In February-April 2013 she was an Erskine visiting fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, returning to Canterbury as a KEENZ visiting scholar in March/April 2014. In 2013 and 2015 she taught patent law for Singapore's Intellectual Property Academy.

George Letsas is Vice Dean (International) and Professor of the Philosophy of Law at UCL. He joined the Faculty in 2006. He holds a PhD in Law (2005) from UCL, an MA in Legal and Political Theory (2000) from the Department of Political Science at UCL, and an LLB (1999) from the University of Athens. Since 2014, he holds a chair in the Philosophy of Law at UCL.

Professor Letsas is currently the Co-Director of the UCL Institute for Human Rights and Co-Editor of UCL’s Quain Lecture Series in Jurisprudence, published by Oxford University Press. He was formerly the Co-Editor of Current Legal Problems, published by Oxford University Press. In 2011-2012, he was a Senior Emile Noel Fellow at New York University (NYU), Faculty of Law. Since 2006, he has co-chaired the UCL Colloquium in Legal and Social Philosophy, convened by Ronald Dworkin (1999-2007), G.A. Cohen (2008-2009) and John Tasioulas (2011-2014).

Stephen Guest is the Emeritus Professor of Legal Philosophy and a Principal Research Associate of University College London (UCL). He graduated with honours in both Philosophy (1971) and Law (1973) first class from the University of Otago in New Zealand, receiving the New Zealand Butterworth Prize in Jurisprudence, and taught Logic for two years for the Otago Philosophy Department before becoming a research student of Professor Ronald Dworkin at University College, Oxford. With Professor Jo Wolff of the UCL Philosophy Department, he co-chaired with Dworkin the distinguished and internationally well-known annual Colloquia in Legal and Social Philosophy at UCL from 1999 to 2006 (see End of a Golden Era?)

He was also staff editor until 2008 of the UCL Jurisprudence Review, the student edited law journal he founded in 1994. A Barrister and Solicitor of the NZ High Court, and Barrister of the Inner Temple, he was a tenant at 199 Strand, London, from 1993 to 2005.