Dr. Renaud Colson is Associate Professor at the Law & Political Science Faculty of the University of Nantes (France) and Honorary Lecturer at Cardiff University. He holds a Diploma in Legal Studies (Cardiff University), a Master’s degree in legal theory (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles and Katholieke Universiteit Brussels), a Master’s degree in private law and a PhD in legal history (University of Nantes). He has written on a variety of subjects including comparative law, drug policy and criminology. His last monograph deals with The transformation of criminal justice: A comparison of France and England and Wales (2011). He has since then edited three collections: Les drogues face au droit (Presses universitaires de France, 2015), EU Criminal Justice and the Challenges of Diversity: Legal Cultures in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and European Drug Policies: The Ways of Reform (Routledge, 2017).
Kevin Toh is the Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He was previously an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Indiana University in Bloomington. He has also held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Texas School of Law, and University College and the Centre in Ethics and Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford. Toh is the author of numerous articles in philosophy of law, ethics, and constitutional theory, and is a co-editor of Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays in Metaethics and Jurisprudence (OUP 2019).
Dr. Martin Kühl ist Vorsitzender Richter am Landessozialgericht Nordrhein-Westfalen und leitet derzeit einen Senat,
der u.a. für Angelegenheiten der Sozialhilfe und des Arbeitsförderungsrechts zuständig ist. Er war viele Jahre Lehrbeauftragter an der Universität Duisburg-Essen, ist Dozent am Deutschen Anwaltsinstitut und Autor zahlreicher
sozialrechtlicher Fachveröffentlichungen. Martin Kühl hat an der Universität Freiburg Rechtswissenschaften studiert und war neben seinem Referendariat 1991/1992 als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am damaligen Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht tätig. 2006 promovierte er an der Universität Freiburg zum Thema „Die Sperrzeit bei Arbeitsaufgabe“.
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Antje du Bois-Pedain is Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy at the Faculty of Law and Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. She was trained as a lawyer in Germany, received her Dr. iur. from Humboldt University Berlin, and in the U.K. (Magister Juris, University of Oxford). She has been based at the University of Cambridge since 2001. One strand of her work addresses the philosophical foundations of state punishment and their significance for the application of law, and law reform. Here, recent collaborative work includes edited volumes on Criminal Law and the Authority of the State (2017), on Penal Censure: Engagements Within and Beyond Desert Theory (2019) and on Re-reading Beccaria: On the Contemporary Significance of a Penal Classic (forthcoming). Another major strand of her work is in criminal law theory and doctrine, often with a comparative or transnational dimension. Here, she has recently written on participation in crime and on criminal-law causation, and is currently exploring outcome responsibility, as well as conceptions and functions of recklessness and negligence.
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Professor Dr. Christoph Engel is an expert in experimental law and economics, behavioural law and economics, and economic law. He is director and scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Common Goods (since 2003), Professor at the University of Bonn (2003), and Honorary Professor at the University of Osnabrück (2004).
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Nora Wienfort ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und Vorsitzende des Arbeitsstabs Ausbildung und Beruf des Deutschen Juristinnenbundes (djb).
Bernhard Schlink ist emeritierter Professor für Öffentliches Recht und Rechtsphilosophie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, war Richter des Verfassungsgerichtshofs des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen und ist Schriftsteller.
Geert Keil ist Professor für Philosophie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und gegenwärtig Präsident der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP). Seine jüngste Buchpublikation zur Erkenntnistheorie Wenn ich mich nicht irre. Ein Versuch über die menschliche Fehlbarkeit erschien 2019 im Reclam-Verlag (Stuttgart). Gemeinsam mit Ralf Poscher hat er die Bände Vagueness and Law. Philosophical and Legal Perspectives (Oxford University Press 2016) und Unscharfe Grenzen im Technik- und Umweltrecht (Nomos 2012) herausgegeben.
Michael T. Light is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research primarily focuses on crime, punishment, and immigration. His recent work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, the European Sociological Review, Social Forces, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Brian Z. Tamanaha is John S. Lehmann University Professor, Washington University School of Law. A legal theorist and law and society scholar, he is the author of 10 books, which have collectively received 6 awards, including the 2019 IVR Book Prize for best book in legal philosophy for A Realistic Theory of Law (Cambridge 2017). He has delivered named lectures and keynote addresses around the globe and his work has been translated into 12 languages. His latest book is Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences (OUP 2021).
Shaul Shalvi is a professor of Behavioral Ethics at the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and political Decision making (CREED), Amsterdam School of Economics.
He serves as an Associate Editor at Judgment and Decision Making.
At the moment, his lab is focused on understanding the psychological factors influencing people's behavior when using sharing economy platforms. In particular, how responsible sharing can be encouraged and maintained.
Linnea Wegerstad has a Degree of Doctor of Laws from Lund University. Her doctoral thesis explores the concept of sexual integrity through a historical, theoretical, and doctrinal analysis of Swedish criminal law. She has practiced as a judge in the general courts for a few years and is now a senior lecturer of criminal law at Lund University. Her main field of research is sexual offenses and feminist legal theory. She is currently involved in a research project titled “The #Metoo Momentum and Its Aftermath: Crime Victims’ Justice-Seeking and Societal and Legal Responses”, funded by the Swedish Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority.
Tom Langerhans studierte Rechtswissenschaften mit dem Schwerpunkt »Grundlagen des Rechts« in Hamburg (Bucerius Law School) und Paris (Sciences Po). Anschließend promovierte er an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin zu einem strafrechtlichen Thema. Sein Referendariat absolvierte er unter anderem im Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz in der Abteilung für Grundrechte. Nach seinem Zweiten Staatsexamen arbeitete er promotionsbegleitend als Rechtsanwalt im Bereich Daten, Medien und Technologie. Seit Ende 2019 ist Tom Langerhans als Richter in Berlin tätig.
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Alec Walen ist Professor für Rechtswissenschaften an der Rutgers University und hält einen fakultätsübergreifenden Lehrstuhl an der School of Law und dem Philosophy Department. Er ist Direktor des Program in Criminal Justice.
