J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor, Joseph Straus Professor of Law and European Union Jean Monnet Chair at NYU School of Law. He serves as Director of The Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, The Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization, and The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice. He is also Director of the J.S.D. Program at the Law School.  Prior to his NYU appointment he was the Manley Hudson Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a WTO and NAFTA Panel Member. He is a founding editor of the European Journal of International Law of which he is Editor-in-Chief, of the European Law Journal and of the World Trade Review. He writes in the fields of International Law, the Law of the European Union, and Comparative Constitutional Law.

José M. de Areilza is Professor of European Union Law and Dean of IE Law School in Madrid, Spain. Between 1996 and 2000 he was Advisor on European Affairs at the Spanish Prime Minister's Office. During 2002, he advised the Spanish Government Representative at the European Convention. His research focuses on European institutions, flexibility and EU-Member States competences and he has published extensively on these issues. He is the Editor of the weblog BlogEuropa.eu and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Madrid Bar Association. He has been a Visiting Professor at William & Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, USA. In 2007 he was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair and in 2009 he became President of the Center for European Studies at IE University.

Kieran St C. Bradley is Head of the Legislation Unit of the European Parliament's Legal Service. He has previously served as a référendaire at the European Court of Justice, and as an administrator on the secretariat of the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs. In Spring 2000, he was the first 'Distinguished Lecturer on European Law' at Harvard Law School, and he has also taught courses on EC law at various other universities and higher level educational institutes, such as the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the East-West Forum (Academy of European Law, Fiesole), the College of Europe (Natolin Campus, Warsaw). He has also taught at the National University of Singapore, at the University of Melbourne, Australia and since 2005 at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. In 2003-2004, he served on both groups of legal experts advising on the drafting of the Constitution for Europe. He has published extensively in a number of areas of EC law, particularly institutional law.

Karine Caunes is Jean Monnet Research Fellow within the Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice at NYU School of Law and the coordinator of the Total Law program. She holds a Doctorate in Law from the European University Institute (Florence) and is specialized in legal theory and EU law, fields in which she has published several articles. She taught in various academic institutions such as Sciences Po Paris, the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratization in Venise, the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, the University of Ljubljana, and the European University Institute where she was research assistant to Professor Wojciech Sadurski. She was also Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. She participated at various research projects mainly on European industrial relations and social affairs and on the relationship between the European Union and the Member States. She was consultant for the French government during the French presidency of the European Union. Lastly, she was a founding mother of the European Journal of Legal Studies and Associate Editor of the European Journal of International Law.

Damian Chalmers is Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in EU law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to that he was a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, and was for 4 years on the Management Committee of the AIRE Centre. He is currently head of the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was formerly editor of the European Law Review and EU Jurist. He has over forty publication and is the author (with G. Monti & G. Davies) of European Union Law (2010, 2nd Edition, CUP).

Miguel Poiares Maduro is Professor and Director of the Global Governance Programme at the European University Institute and Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. He was Advocate General at the European Court of Justice (October 2003- October 2009). He has taught at many other institutions in a visiting capacity, including the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales (Madrid), Chicago Law School and London School of Economics . Until October of 2003 he was a Professor at the Law School of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa with whom he still collaborates. He is also an external Professor at  the College of Europe. He is a Doctor of Laws by the European University Institute (Florence) and was the first winner of the Rowe and Maw Prize and winner of the Prize Obiettivo Europa (for the best PhD thesis at the EUI). He has been Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at Harvard Law School. He is co-editor with Francis Snyder of the Hart Publishers Series Studies in European Law and Integration. He belongs to the editorial or advisory board of several law journals, including the European Law Journal and the Common Market Law Review. He has published articles, in several languages, on issues of EU law, constitutional law, human rights law and international economic law. He has been honoured by the President of the Portuguese Republic with the Order of Sant'Iago da Espada for literary, scientific and artistic merit and in 2010 he was awarded the Gulbenkian Science Prize.

Imola Streho is Associate Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, where she is Deputy Dean of Studies and Program Director of the Master in European Affairs. From 2002 till 2008, she was a référendaire at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. She is a Doctor of Laws by the Law Faculty of the University of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas) where she taught from 1999 to 2010 at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales. She has held visiting appointments at the College of Europe (Natolin campus), the Central European University in Budapest, Instituto Empresa Law School in Madrid, Catolica University Law School in Lisbon, the National University of Singapore and the University of Melbourne. From 2000 to 2002, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law where she was the Executive Director of its Jean Monnet Center. She holds a diploma from the College of Europe. She writes in the field of EU law.