Leisy J. Abrego is professor in Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders (2014) and coeditor of We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States (2020).

Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen is professor of law at the University of California, Irvine. They are the author of Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite (2021), coauthor of Gender Regimes and the Politics of Privacy (2021), and coeditor of Invisible Institutionalisms: Collective Reflections on the Shadows of Legal Globalisation (2021).

Pratiksha Baxi is associate professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author of Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India (2014).

Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (1946–2022) was professor emeritus at Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg, associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, and affiliated fellow of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law and Development at Leiden University. She was the coauthor of Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity: The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation (2013).

Margaret L. Boittin is assistant professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is the author of The Regulation of Prostitution in China: Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials (2024).

Lynette J. Chua is professor of law at National University of Singapore. She is the author of The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (2022), The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as A Way of Life (2019), and Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State (2014), and is coeditor of The Asian Law & Society Reader (2023).

Luis Eslava is research professorial chair of international law at La Trobe University and professor of international law at the University of Kent. He is the author of Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development (2015), and coeditor of Bandung, Global History, and International Law: Critical Pasts, Pending Futures (2017) and the Oxford Handbook on International Law and Development (2023).

Mark Fathi Massoud is professor of politics and director of legal studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and visiting professor at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He is the author of Shari‘a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics (2021) and Law’s Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan (2013).

Sindiso Mnisi Weeks is associate professor of legal studies and political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Access to Justice and Human Security: Cultural Contradictions in Rural South Africa (2018) and coauthor of African Customary Law in South Africa: Post-Apartheid and Living Law Perspectives (2015).