María Guadalupe Martínez Alles is an assistant professor of law at IE University. She works in the areas of tort theory, comparative private law, consumer law, and punitive damages. She has also served as a professor of law at Universidad de San Andrés and held visiting research positions at Yale Law School, the University of Oxford, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. Her forthcoming monograph Torts and Retribution. The Case for Punitive Damages (Cambridge University Press, 2025) is the first book that advances a novel retributive framework enabling the analysis of punitive damages across jurisdictions.

Weitseng Chen is an associate professor at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in comparative Asian law with an emphasis on law and development, property law, and financial institutions. He has worked as a Hewlett fellow of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University and as a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell. His recent publications include Regime Type and Beyond: The Transformation of Police in Asia (with H. Fu, Cambridge University Press, 2023), Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation, Development and Transition (with H. Fu, Cambridge University Press, 2020) and The Beijing Consensus? How China has Changed the Western Ideas of Law and Economic Development (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Kevin E. Davis is Beller Family Professor of Business Law at New York University School of Law. His research and teaching generally concern the relationship between law and economic development, with particular emphasis on anti-corruption law, commercial law, and measurement of the performance of legal systems. His publications include over fifty articles or essays, five edited volumes, and a monograph, Between Impunity and Imperialism: The Regulation of Transnational Bribery (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Jorge L. Esquirol is a professor of law at Florida International University, where he teaches commercial law, comparative law, and international trade law. He previously taught at Northeastern University School of Law and was Academic Affairs Director for the Graduate Program at Harvard Law School. He was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law for 2015–16 at the University of Trento; visiting research professor at the Watson Institute Brown University; and is currently Affiliate Professor at Sciences Po – Paris. He is the author of over forty articles and Ruling the Law: Legitimacy and Failure in Latin American Legal Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Eva Wenwa Gao is a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Peking University (2015) and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Columbia Law School (2018). She was previously a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Law School.

Carlos Portugal Gouvêa is a professor of commercial law at the University of São Paulo. He has been a visiting researcher at Yale Law School and at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a founding partner of PGLaw, the vice-president of the Commission of Capital Markets and Corporate Governance of OAB-SP, and a member of the board of the Brazilian Fulbright Commission. He was previously a member of the Brazilian Board of Resources of the National Financial System.

Vikramaditya S. Khanna is William W. Cook Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, where he is also the faculty codirector of the Joint Centre for Global Corporate and Financial Law and Policy in partnership with India’s Jindal Global Law School. His interests include corporate and securities law, legal issues in India, corporate and white-collar crime, and corporate governance in emerging markets. He was the Bruce W. Nichols visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, a senior research fellow at Columbia Law School and Yale Law School, as well as a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School.

Benjamin L. Liebman is Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he also directs the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies and the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. His areas of specialty include international and comparative law, with a focus on Chinese tort law, criminal procedure, and court judgments. He is the author, alongside Curtis J. Milhaupt, of Regulating the Visible Hand: The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2015). He practiced law in London and Beijing and served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter and Judge Sandra Lynch.

Daniel Bonilla Maldonado is Full Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He has been a visiting professor or lecturer at multiple institutions, including Yale Law School, Fordham Law School, FGV São Paulo, and Sciences Po. He has received a Fulbright Fellowship and is the author of publications such as Legal Barbarians: Identity, Modern Comparative Law and the Global South (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Constitutionalism of the Global South (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Mariana Pargendler is Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She previously served as Full Professor of Law at FGV Law School in São Paulo, as Global Professor of Law at New York University School of Law (Buenos Aires), and as a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, and Penn law schools. Her scholarship focuses on corporate law, corporate governance, and contract law from economic and comparative perspectives. She has published over twenty-five articles in various journals and edited volumes and is a coauthor of The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Saylon A. Pereira is a doctoral student in the Law and Development program at FGV Law School in São Paulo. He holds degrees in Law (2013) and Social Sciences (2018) from the University of São Paulo (USP/Brazil), where he also completed two years of Mathematics. He earned a master’s degree in law from FGV in 2016. His research areas include economic law, constitutional law, and social policies. Since 2018, he has been developing technologies for research and law-related activities. He is also a researcher and assistant coordinator of the Center for Regulation and Democracy at the Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa (INSPER).

Rachel E. Stern is Professor of Law and Political Science (by courtesy) at Berkeley Law, where she currently holds the Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies. Her research looks at law in Mainland China especially the relationship between legal institution building, political space, and professionalization. She is the author of Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence (Cambridge University Press, 2013) as well as numerous articles on legal mobilization and lawyers in contemporary China.

Bianca Tavolari is a professor at FGV Law School in São Paulo, where she focuses on the right to the city, urban social movements, law, and critical theory. She is a researcher of law and democracy at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (Cebrap) and a principal investigator at Maria Sibylla Merian Centre – Mecila. She previously taught at INSPER and was a researcher of the Right to the City Laboratory at the Architecture and Urbanism school of the University of São Paulo (LabCidade). She has also served as a consultant to the World Bank on the matter of cartel repression in Brazil.

Xiaohan Wu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego. She holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University (2018) and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tianjin University (2017). She was previously a data science research associate at Columbia Law School.