Lisa Vanhala is Pro-Vice Provost for the Grand Challenge Theme of the Climate Crisis and Full Professor of Political Science at University College London, where she also serves as Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science. Her research sits at the intersection of political science, law and sociology, and has been instrumental in shaping the scholarly understanding of legal mobilisation in the fields of human rights and climate change. She is one of the world's leading authorities on the politics and governance of climate change loss and damage, to which she has devoted two recent volumes: Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage (University of Chicago Press) and, with Elisa Calliari, Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage: The National Turn (Cambridge University Press). Her prize-winning first book, Making Rights a Reality? Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization (Cambridge University Press, 2011), examined legal mobilisation in the disability rights field. Her work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Law & Society Review, Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Politics and Climate Policy, among others. She holds a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford and has been awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant and an ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellowship. She regularly advises UN agencies, governments and foundations, and sits on the editorial boards of Law & Society Review, Law & Policy and Environmental Politics.

Prof. Kim Bouwer is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Durham, specialising in climate change and environmental law, with significant expertise in private law and torts. She has served as UK Rapporteur for major projects on corporate climate legal tactics and previously practised as a public interest lawyer before embarking on her doctoral research. Her scholarship on climate and energy law has appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of Environmental Law and Nature Sustainability.

Prof. Michele Carducci is Full Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law and Climate Law at the University of Salento. He coordinates the Centro di Ricerca Euro-Americano sulle Politiche Costituzionali (CEDEUAM) and the Laboratorio di Analisi Ecologica del Diritto. His research spans comparative constitutionalism, Latin American legal theory, rights of nature and climate justice. He coordinated the first European proposal for a Charter of Fundamental Rights of Nature and supports climate justice movements in both national and international litigation.

Prof. Tania Groppi is Full Professor of Public Law at the University of Siena, where she also teaches comparative constitutional law. Her research interests include constitutional justice, federalism, constitution-building processes and the use of foreign precedents by constitutional judges. She has served as legal adviser to the Italian Constitutional Court and to the Council of Europe. A visiting professor at universities across Europe, North America and the Middle East, she has authored over two hundred scholarly publications.

Prof. Benoit Mayer is Professor of Climate Law at the University of Reading and Executive Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law. His research has shaped contemporary debates on international and comparative climate law, including states’ mitigation obligations under treaty and customary law. He is the author of major monographs with leading academic presses and a lead author in the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report, with articles in top journals including the American Journal of International Law.

Prof. Oliver Ruppel is a leading scholar of international economic and environmental law at the University of Graz and Stellenbosch University, with a strong focus on climate change and sustainable development in Africa. His work addresses the interface between trade, climate governance and human rights, contributing to key debates on climate justice in the Global South. He regularly participates in international expert processes and in capacity-building initiatives on climate change law and policy across the African continent.

Prof. Joana Setzer is Associate Professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She leads the Climate Change Laws of the World project, the most comprehensive global database of climate legislation and policy. Her research focuses on climate litigation and multi-level environmental governance, and she is widely cited in international debates on the growing role of courts and litigation in advancing global climate action.

Dr. Maria Antonia Tigre is Director of Global Climate Litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School, where she manages the Global Climate Litigation Database. Her research focuses on rights-based climate litigation and climate justice in the Global South. She is Deputy Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment and a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, with prior experience at the Cyrus R. Vance Center.

Prof. Harro van Asselt holds the Hatton Professorship in Climate Law at the University of Cambridge, the first endowed climate law chair in the United Kingdom. He is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland and the Stockholm Environment Institute. His research explores the interaction of international climate law with trade, human rights and energy. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law and contributed to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report.

Dr. Ivano Alogna is Senior Research Fellow in Environmental and Climate Change Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, where he leads the climate law programme. His research centres on comparative climate litigation and corporate climate accountability, areas in which he created the Global Toolbox on Corporate Climate Litigation. He has published widely on environmental and climate change law, and regularly provides specialised judicial training for judges and legal practitioners across multiple jurisdictions worldwide.

Dr. Michael Burger is Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Law School. His research and advocacy focus on developing legal strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance climate adaptation through pollution control, resource management and land use planning. He also serves as Of Counsel at Sher Edling LLP, where he works on high-profile climate litigation on behalf of state and local governments across the United States.

Prof. Danielle De Andrade Moreira is Associate Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, where she founded and coordinates JUMA – Law, Environment and Justice in the Anthropocene. Her research focuses on climate litigation in Brazil, environmental liability and the polluter-pays principle, contributing to pioneering legal strategies for climate accountability. She also serves as Director of the Law for a Green Planet Institute and Academic Coordinator of the Brazilian Association of Environmental Law Teachers.

Prof. Jolene Lin is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law. Her research focuses on climate change litigation and transnational climate change law, with publications in leading international and environmental law journals. She also serves on several editorial boards and advisory bodies, including the advisory board of the Climate Change Legal Initiative, contributing to advancing climate governance across the Asia-Pacific region.

Prof. Philip Paiement is Professor of Law and Governance in the Anthropocene at Tilburg Law School. He is Principal Investigator of TransLitigate, a major ERC-funded project studying transnational strategic litigation networks in global environmental governance. His research examines how professional networks of lawyers shape climate change, biodiversity and extractive industries litigation worldwide. He holds a PhD from Tilburg Law School and an MSc in Socio-Legal Research from the University of Oxford, and teaches jurisprudence and comparative law.

Prof. Annalisa Savaresi is a prominent scholar of international and European environmental and climate change law at the University of Stirling and the University of Eastern Finland. Her research covers climate litigation, human rights and biodiversity, and she has played a key role in major empirical assessments of global climate litigation trends. She frequently advises international organisations and contributes to expert bodies on climate and environmental governance, effectively bridging academic research and policy-making at the international level.

Prof. Francesco Sindico is Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde Law School in Glasgow. His research spans international environmental law, climate change law, international trade law and water law, with particular expertise on transboundary aquifers and water governance. He frequently advises governments and international organisations and has successfully led several externally funded research projects on climate and water governance, contributing to policy development at the intersection of environmental protection and natural resource management.

Prof. Marta Torre-Schaub is Senior Researcher in Law at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at the Sorbonne. She founded and directs leading research networks on law and climate change, including the GDR ClimaLex and the Law and Climate Change network. Her work focuses on climate litigation, environmental law and the legal dimensions of the ecological transition in France and beyond, positioning her as a central figure in French and European climate law scholarship.

Prof. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh is Associate Professor of Public International Law and Sustainability Law at the University of Amsterdam. Her research explores the intersection of climate change, human rights and sustainable development, and she is the author of State Responsibility, Climate Change and Human Rights under International Law, a key monograph on rights-based climate accountability. Drawing on her extensive experience in international negotiations and advisory roles, she works with governments, NGOs and international bodies on climate justice issues.