Daniel Bonilla Maldonado is Professor of Law at the University of the Andes School of Law. Among his publications are Legal Barbarians: Identity, Modern Comparative Law and the Global South (2021) and, as editor, Constitutionalism of the Global South (2013).

Caroline Cunill teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author of Los defensores de indios de Yucatán (2012) and the editor of Las lenguas indígenas en los tribunales de América Latina (2019) and Actores, redes y prácticas dialógicas en la construcción y uso de los archivos en América Latina (2021).

Monica Dantas is a professor at the Brazilian Studies Institute and on the graduate program in social history at the University of São Paulo. Her research and publications focus on nineteenth-century Brazilian history, with an emphasis on social movements, political history, legal history, and the history of freemasonry.

Mariana Dias Paes is Research Group Leader of the ‘Global Legal History on the Ground: Court Cases in African Archives’ project at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt. Her most recent book is Esclavos y tierras entre posesión y títulos: la construcción social del derecho de propiedad en Brasil (2021).

Thomas Duve is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and Professor of Comparative Legal History at Goethe University, Frankfurt. An expert in European and Latin American legal history, he specializes in the history of law and religion in a global perspective.

Tamar Herzog is Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University and an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Law School. She is the author of 7 monographs, 4 edited volumes, and over 140 articles. Her latest book is A Short History of European Law: The Last Two-and-a-Half Millennia (2018).

José María Portillo is Professor of History at the University of the Basque Country. He has also taught in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia. His latest book is Una historia atlántica de la nación y el Estado. España y las Españas en el siglo XIX (2022).

Cristiano Paixão is Professor of Legal History and Constitutional Law at the University of Brasília Law School. He is a member of the Brazilian Amnesty Committee, a coordinator of the Anísio Teixeira Memory and Truth Commission, and Senior Labor Prosecutor in the Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office.

Agustín Parise is Associate Professor of Law at Maastricht University and Secretary-General of the International Association of Legal Science (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, France). He received his LLB and LLD from the University of Buenos Aires, his LLM from Louisiana State University, and his Ph.D. from Maastricht University.

Carlos Petit holds two Ph.D. degrees in law (University of Seville and University of Bologna) and a degree in history (University of Seville). Professor of Legal History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, he currently works at the University of Huelva. His main field of research is the history of private law.

Roberto Saba earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of São Paulo and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University. In 2021, he published American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation (Princeton University Press).

Ruti Teitel is Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School. She is founding cochair of the American Society of International Law Interest Group on Transitional Justice and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Among her books are Globalizing Transitional Justice (2014), Humanity’s Law (2011), and Transitional Justice (2000).

Valeria Vegh Weis is Professor of Law at Buenos Aires University and the National University of Quilmes. She is a research fellow at the University of Konstanz, a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin, and the winner of the 2021 Critical Criminology of the Year Award (Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice of the American Society of Criminology).

Romina Zamora is Professor of Colonial History at the National University of Tucumán and a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Argentina). Her book Casa Poblada y Buen Gobierno. Oeconomia católica y servicio personal en S. M. Tucumán, siglo XVIII (2017) won the 2017 Argentine National Academy of History prize for the best published book.

Eduardo Zimmermann is Director of the graduate program in history at the University of San Andrés, Buenos Aires. Among his books are Los liberales reformistas. La cuestión social en la Argentina, 1890–1916 (1995); Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (1999), as editor; and Los saberes del Estado (2012), Las prácticas del Estado (2012), Construcción del Estado y fuerzas militares: América Latina, siglo XIX (2012), as coeditor.