Educated in Britain, Tom Campbell was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling and Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow before being appointed Professor of Law at the Australian National University and then Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at Charles Sturt University. He is the author and editor of several books, including Seven Theories of Human Society, Rights, and Justice.


Keith Ewing is Professor of Public Law at King's College London, and is one of the country's leading civil liberties lawyers. He is the author of Freedom under Thatcher: Civil Liberties in Modern Britain (with Conor Gearty) and his other books include Bonfire of the Liberties, The Right to Strike and The Struggle for Civil Liberties (also with Conor Gearty).


Adam Tomkins has held the John Millar Chair in Public Law at the University of Glasgow since 2003. Prior to that he taught at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and at King's College London. He is the author of a number of books, including the Clarendon Law Series title Public Law and also British Government and the Constitution (with Colin Turpin).

James Allan - Garrick Professor of Law, University of Queensland
Gavin W. Anderson - Senior Lectureer at the School of Law, University of Glasgow
Thomas Bull - Professor of Constitutional Law, Uppsala University
Joo Cheong-Tham - Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
Soinaidh Douglas-Scott - Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Carolyn Evans - Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
Simon Evans - Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
Judy Fudge - Lansdowne Chair of Law, University of Victoria, Canada
Conor Gearty - Professor of Human Rights Law, London School of Economics
Andrew Geddis - Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland
Janet L. Hiebert - Professor of Political Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Christopher Himsworth - Professor of Administrative Law, University of Edinburgh
Ran Hirschl - Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development, University of Toronto
Joan Mahoney - Professor of Law, Wayne State University
Aileen McColgan - Professor of Law, King's College London
Jonathan Morgan - Fellow of Christ's College, University of Cambridge
Danny Nicol - Professor of Public Law, Westminster University, London
Evan Rosevear - Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Kaarlo Tuori - Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Helsinki
Mark Tushnet - William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard University
Jeremy Waldron - University Professor of Law, New York University

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