Déirdre Clancy serves as the humanitarian expert for the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea. She was previously the co-director and co-founder of the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI), headquartered in Kampala, Uganda. Prior to founding IRRI she held positions at Human Rights First in New York, the Council of Europe and the Irish Refugee Council. Deirdre holds an LLB from Trinity College and a master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (University of Padova, Italy/Robert Schumann University, Strasbourg, France).

Kamari Maxine Clarke is Professor at Carleton University in Global and International Studies. Her research explores issues related to legal institutions, religious nationalism, human rights and international law, the interface between culture, power and globalization, and their relationships to history, politics and power. Her many publications include Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2009), as well as Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era (Cambridge University Press, 2014), a collection co-edited with Mark Goodale. She has held numerous prestigious fellowships, grants and awards, including grants from the Ford Foundation (2003), the Wenner-Gren Foundation and a highly competitive grant from the National Science Foundation (2012).

Christian De Vos is an advocacy officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative. Previously, he was a PhD researcher at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and a law clerk with the Legal Affairs Office of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He has also held research positions with the United States Institute of Peace and the War Crimes Research Office. Christian received his PhD from Leiden University and his JD from the American University Washington College of Law. He is a member of the bar of the State of New York and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Peter Dixon is a fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, from which he also received his MA. Previously, he worked as a research fellow in monitoring and evaluation at the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims and conducted dissertation research in The Hague and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Jennifer Easterday is a PhD researcher for the ‘Jus Post Bellum’ project at Leiden University. She is also a trial monitor and consultant for the Open Society Justice Initiative and previously worked for several international NGOs working on issues of international justice and human rights. Jennifer received her JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and is a member of the California State Bar.

Laurel E. Fletcher is Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Before joining the Berkeley Law faculty in 1998, she practised complex civil litigation, including representing plaintiffs in employment discrimination class actions. Her work focuses on transitional justice and humanitarian law, as well as globalization and migration. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice, author of numerous articles and lead-author of The Guantanamo Effect (2009), together with Eric Stover.

Judy Gitau currently works as Technical Advisor on Transitional Justice for a Justice Sector Development Project in Somaliland. She previously worked as a programme officer with the Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists managing projects that promoted and improved human rights protection in Kenya and the Eastern Africa region. She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a member of the Kenyan Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She read Law at the University of Nairobi and holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University.

Matias Hellman is External Relations Adviser at the Presidency of the International Criminal Court, where he facilitates the Court’s high-level interaction with states, international organizations and civil society. He was the first field outreach officer recruited to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and later conducted outreach activities as Registry Liaison Officer in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Serbia; in 2008 he was appointed the ICTY’s first Legacy Officer. Hellman holds an LLM (with distinction) in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex and an MA in Slavic Languages and Cultures from the University of Helsinki.

Pascal Kambale is Senior Advisor in the Open Society Foundations’ Africa Regional Office and leads its international justice work. He previously served as Deputy Director of the Open Society Foundations’ Africa Governance, Monitoring and Advocacy Project and, from 1999 to 2005, as International Justice Counsel with Human Rights Watch. A former member of the Congolese Law Reform Commission and of the Commission of Investigation into Post-Election Violence in Kenya, Kambale was called to the Kinshasa Bar in 1989. He is a graduate of the University of Kinshasa and Harvard Law School.

Jeremy Kelley currently clerks for Honourable Thomas O. Rice on the US District Court for Eastern District Washington. He graduated magna cum laude from the American University Washington College of Law in 2013.

Sara Kendall is Lecturer in International Law at the University of Kent, where she co-directs the Centre for Critical International Law. She holds a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. She has previously taught at the University of Amsterdam and at Leiden University, where she participated in a multi-year research project on the ICC at Leiden’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. Her research draws upon insights from the humanities and the interpretive social sciences to explore the work of the international legal order, and her publications have addressed issues in international criminal law and efforts to address state violence through international law more broadly.

Mark Kersten is a researcher, consultant and teacher at the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has worked with a number of organizations focused on international justice, including the Refugee Law Project, Lawyers for Justice in Libya and Justice Africa. He is currently consulting for the Wayamo Foundation on a project pertaining to the domestic prosecution of international and transnational crimes in Kenya. Mark is also the creator and author of the blog ‘Justice in Conflict’.

David Koller is Legal Officer with the UN Management Evaluation Unit in the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Management. He previously served as Special Assistant to Presidents Philippe Kirsch and Sang-Hyung Song of the International Criminal Court and as Legal Officer in the ICC Appeals Chamber. David holds a JD from New York University School of Law and is a member of the bar of the State of New York.

Patryk Labuda is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He previously worked as a research fellow in Sudan and South Sudan for the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (currently the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law) and, before that, with the European Union’s Police Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Patryk holds an LLM from Columbia Law School and degrees in law and history from Adam Mickiewicz University.

Frédéric Mégret is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. He also holds the Canada Research Chair in the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and is affiliated with the McGill Centre of the same name. Since September 2012 he has been Associate Dean for Research. He holds an LLB from King’s College London, a DEA from the Université de Paris I and a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva), as well as a diploma from Sciences Po Paris. His work focuses on some of the theoretical dimensions of international law, international criminal justice, international human rights law and the laws of war.

Juan E. Méndez is Visiting Professor of Law at the American University Washington College of Law and the author (with Marjory Wentworth) of Taking A Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights (2011). As of November 2010, he serves as the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment. He was Special Advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He was also Co-Chair of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute from 2010 to 2011. Until May 2009, he was President of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). Concurrent with his duties at ICTJ, the Honourable Kofi Annan named Méndez his Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, a task he performed from 2004 to 2007.

Njonjo Mue is a program advisor to Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice. He previously worked as Africa Deputy Director for the International Center for Transitional Justice and Head of Advocacy at the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights. He is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya, having read law at the University of Nairobi and Oxford University.

Michael A. Newton is Professor of the Practice of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. He has published more than 80 books, articles and book chapters. He formerly taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point and at the Judge Advocate General’s School and Center. He has written extensively about use of force issues, international jurisprudence and the enforcement of international law.

Stephen Oola heads the Conflict, Transitional Justice and Governance Program at the Refugee Law Project (RLP), based at the Makerere University School of Law, Kampala. He previously headed the Research and Advocacy Department at RLP from 2010 to 2012 and led the drafting of Uganda’s proposed National Reconciliation Bill, in addition to participating in drafting the proposed African Union Transitional Justice Policy Framework. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Transitional Justice Study in Africa. Stephen holds an LLB (Hons) degree from Makerere University and an MA in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Jaya Ramji-Nogales is I. Herman Stern Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. Her transitional justice scholarship focuses on process and institutional design. She received her JD from the Yale Law School, her LLM with distinction from Georgetown University Law Centre and her BA with highest honours and distinction from the University of California at Berkeley.

Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at Leiden University and Programme Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (The Hague). He has previously worked as Legal Officer in Chambers of the International Criminal Court (2003–2007) and as Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2000–2003). He is the author of The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration: Versailles to Iraq and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2008/2010), which received the Ciardi Prize 2009 of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. He has edited numerous collections in the field of international criminal justice and directs research projects on ‘Jus Post Bellum’ and ‘Post-Conflict Justice and Local Ownership’, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

Ruti Teitel is Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School, where she serves as Chair of the Global Law and Justice Colloquium and co-directs the Institute for Global Law, Justice and Policy. She is also a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Globalizing Transitional Justice (2014), Humanity’s Law (2011) and Transitional Justice (2000), as well as numerous articles on comparative law, human rights, international law and constitutionalism. She has taught at Yale, Fordham and Tel Aviv’s law schools as well as at Columbia University’s Politics department and School of International and Public Affairs, where she is currently a distinguished research scholar. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A graduate of Georgetown University, she received her JD from Cornell Law School.