Jeanne Gaakeer received her Master’s in English and American Literature from Utrecht University, before studying at Erasmus University Rotterdam where she obtained her Law Master’s, Master’s in Philosophy, and PhD. Since then, she has become a legal scholar and an endowed professor of Jurisprudence in: Law, Language, and Literature; as well as a full professor of Jurisprudence in: Hermeneutical and Narrative Foundations at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her fields of interest include legal theory, legal methodology, and legal philosophy. She is one of the co-founders of the European Network Law and Literature and has written extensively on the topic of ​Law and Literature and ​Law and Humanities​. In 2013, she was the recipient of the James Boyd White Award, awarded by the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities. Prof. dr. Gaakeer also has experience in the judicial system, as a Deputy Judge and Judge in the Regional Court of Middelburg, and as a Senior Justice for the criminal law section in the Appellate Court in the Hague.

Marco Wan is an Associate Professor of Law and Honorary Associate Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. His first book, Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2016), won the Penny Pether Prize for outstanding scholarship in law and humanities from the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia. He is currently working on a monograph on law and film in Hong Kong, and is co-editing (with Peter Goodrich and Christian Delage) a volume on new media and the law. He has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, the National University of Singapore, and the Law and Culture Centre at the University of Bonn. He is also Managing Editor of ​Law and Literature​, which was founded as the journal of the law and literature movement in the United States. His educational background is in both literary/cultural studies and legal studies; he obtained his BA from Yale University, his first law degree and PhD from the University of Cambridge, and his LLM from Harvard Law School. He recently received the University of Hong Kong Outstanding Teaching Prize.

Claudia Bouteligier studied Law and obtained both her Bachelor’s (LLB) and Master’s degree (LLM) in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy at Leiden University. She was a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Jurisprudence and a guest lecturer at the Department of Legal Philosophy. Her main research interests are interdisciplinary research and external perspectives on law. Her Ph.D. thesis, entitled ‘Dialogue in Law and Literature. A Critique of Narrative Reason’, focuses on the domain of ‘Law and Literature’. With reference to Dostoevsky, Buber, Sartre and Camus, the thesis is primarily concerned with the issue of empathy in relation to law and justice.

Pauline Phoa is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). She holds Master’s Degrees in Law (LL.M) from Utrecht University and Columbia Law School in New York (USA). Before starting her PhD research in Utrecht, Pauline has worked as a legal assistant at the General Court of the EU in Luxembourg (2008-2010), as a lawyer in EU and international law at a law firm in Amsterdam (2012-2014), and as EU law advisor for ECJ litigation team of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (2014). Pauline’s research focuses on developing a ‘Law and Literature’ approach for uncovering and understanding the EU legal narrative as appearing from the tension between the EU Single Market and fundamental rights. Her supervisors are Prof. dr. S.A. de Vries (Utrecht University), Prof. dr. drs. A.M.P. Gaakeer (Erasmus University School of Law, Rotterdam) and dr. A. van den Brink (Utrecht University).

Laura Henderson is a post-doctoral researcher on democracy & human rights at UGlobe (the Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges) and the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights at Utrecht University. She completed her PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in legal philosophy. In her dissertation, Laura developed a theory of judicial decision-making that takes account of fundamental uncertainty of meaning in law and language. She used times of crisis to highlight this uncertainty, taking as case studies economic crisis and crises of national security. Laura has her LL.M and LL.B from Utrecht University and a BA from the University College Utrecht. In addition to her academic work, Laura consults on international law and human rights.

Ted Laros studied Dutch and comparative literature at Utrecht University and the University of California, Los Angeles. He took his PhD at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. A revised version of his thesis entitled Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910-2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom was recently published in the “Law, Culture and Humanities Series” of Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Laros is Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at the Open University of the Netherlands. He has previously taught at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Radboud University of Nijmegen, and Oldenburg University. He has held visiting positions at the University of Münster and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His main research interests are in Dutch and South African literature, sociology of culture, the relationship between literature and the law, and that between literature and politics.

Brianne McGonigle Leyh is an Associate Professor with Utrecht University’s Netherlands Institute of Human Rights where she specializes in human rights, transitional justice, victims’ rights, and international criminal law and procedure. She is an Executive Editor of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, a member of the Utrecht Young Academy, and Senior Counsel with the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG). She received her Bachelors degree (BA) from Boston University, graduating magna cum laude with a self-crafted major in the study of international law and human rights, her Law degree (JD) from American University’s Washington College of Law, graduating cum laude, and her Masters degree (MA) in International Affairs from American University’s School of International Service. In 2011 she obtained her PhD from Utrecht University where she wrote her award-winning dissertation on victim participation in international criminal proceedings.

Elaine Mak is Professor of Jurisprudence at Utrecht University. In her research, she combines legal and interdisciplinary perspectives to analyse the functioning of the institutions of government (in particular the judiciary) in Western liberal democracies in an evolving legal context. She has received research grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for projects on the influence of globalisation on highest courts (Veni grant 2008) and on the development of judicial cultures in Europe (Vidi grant 2016). In her inaugural lecture ‘The T-shaped Lawyer and Beyond’, held at Utrecht University on 19 June 2017, she addressed the meaning of legal professionalism in contemporary societies and its implications for legal education.Elaine Mak holds law degrees from Rotterdam and Paris. She obtained her PhD degree at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2008 and from January 2014 until May 2016 was Professor of Empirical Study of Public Law as well as Director of the Erasmus Graduate School of Law. She is a member of the board of the Netherlands Association for Philosophy of Law.

Emma Jones is a lecturer in law at The Open University, UK. Prior to working in academia, she was a solicitor in private practice specialising in construction law. She is currently Chair of The Open University’s clinical legal education module. Emma completed her PhD thesis on the role of emotion in undergraduate legal education. Her current areas of research include legal education, law and emotion, multiple intelligences and emotional intelligence, law and empathy, therapeutic jurisprudence, law student wellbeing and the role of emotion and wellbeing within the legal profession. Emma is co-convenor of a stream on law and emotion (with John Stannard of Queen's University Belfast) at the Socio-Legal Studies Association's annual conference, an Academic Fellow of The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority.

Tim Bleeker ​studied law at the Utrecht Law College (LLB hons.) and the Legal Research Master (LLM cum laude) at the University of Utrecht. During his studies, he participated in various project-groups on legal education, and assisted in the editing of ‘Academic Learning in Law’ by Van Klink and De Vries (Edward Elgar 2016). Tim wrote a chapter on legal education, and also co-authored an article this topic. After finishing his Master, Tim worked as a lecturer in law at the Molengraaff Institute of Private Law of Utrecht University. Currently, Tim is a PhD-researcher at the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL). Tim's PhD-research focuses on personal liability (under Dutch civil, administrative and criminal law) of directors and executives for environmental damage. Tim also published on topics such as climate change litigation, transnational corporate liability law, public interest litigation and legal injunctions.