• Jeena Shah

    Jeena is an Associate Professor of Law at the CUNY School of Law, specializing in constitutional law, international law, and critical race theory. She is a prominent advocate of movement lawyering, a practice that prioritizes grassroots community organizing and collective power-building over traditional, top-down litigation strategies. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Drew University…

  • Raul Sanchez Urribarri

    Raul is a comparative law and politics scholar specializing in judicial politics, constitutionalism, and the rule of law under democratic erosion and hybrid authoritarianism. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Neukom Center for the Rule of Law and an incoming Professor of Law at Western Sydney University. He holds a Bachelor…

  • Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado

    Marta is a Brazilian legal scholar, socio-legal researcher, and public official. Since 2007, she has been a full-time professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in São Paulo (FGV Direito SP). She also serves as Brazil’s National Secretary for Drug Policy and Asset Management (SENAD) within the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. She…

  • Dennis Davis

    Dennis is a prominent South African jurist, legal scholar, and retired judge who served as the Judge President of the Competition Appeal Court from 2000 to 2020 and concurrently as a judge of the Western Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa from 1998 to 2020. Educated at the University of Cape Town…

  • Octavio Ferraz

    Octavio is a Professor of Law. He holds an LLB and MPhil in Law (University of São Paulo), an MA in Medical Ethics & Law (King’s College London, prize Benjamin Geijsen) and a PhD in Law (University College London). Before joining King’s he was a senior research officer to the UN special rapporteur for the…

  • Eloisa Machado de Almeida

    Eloisa is a Brazilian human rights lawyer, constitutional scholar, and law professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in São Paulo (FGV Direito SP). She holds an LL.B. and a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), alongside a Ph.D. in Law and Human Rights from the…

  • Thiago Amparo

    Thiago de Souza Amparo is a Brazilian legal scholar, public policy expert, and Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), teaching across both the São Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP) and the School of International Relations (FGV RI). He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Pontifical Catholic…

  • Mbekezeli Benjamin

    Mbekezeli Benjamin is a South African human rights lawyer, researcher, and judicial civil watchdog specialist. He serves as the Research and Advocacy Officer at Judges Matter, an independent project hosted by the Democratic Governance and Rights Unit (DGRU) within the University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Law. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree…

  • Nomfundo Ramalekana

    Nomfundo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Faculty of Law, where she convenes the Constitutional Law course. Her scholarship examines constitutional and human rights law from critical race and afro-feminist perspectives, focusing on anti-discrimination frameworks, feminist legal theory, and affirmative action jurisprudence. She earned…

  • Javier Corrales

    Javier is the Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, where he specializes in comparative politics, democratic backsliding, and Latin American governance. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and completed his Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University in 1996. His research investigates the institutional…