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Melissa J. (“MJ”) Durkee is an expert in international law with a focus on international legal theory and specialties in business, environment, and governance. Professor Durkee’s scholarship has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Virginia Law Review, American Journal of International Law, and other prominent peer-reviewed and student-edited publications. 

Justina Uriburu is a lecturer in international law at the University of Manchester and Co-Director of the Manchester International Law Centre (MILC). She is currently on research leave, supported by a two-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is also co-editor of EJIL: Talk!, the blog of the European Journal of International Law.

Surabhi Ranganathan is a professor of law at the University of Cambridge. Her current work traces the co-constitution of international law and the ocean from 1945 to now, unsettling what we take as the givens in relation to the spatial zones, resource allocations and functional jurisdictions effected by the law of the sea. It extends the history and critique of international law into new areas, such as ocean depths and bottoms, global commons, marine infrastructures, and techno-utopian imaginaries, and, from the underexplored vantage point of oceanic law-making, throws new light on current preoccupations of international legal histories: statehood and territory, decolonization and the new international economic order, the Cold War, race and empire, and the emergence of new legal forms and institutions.

Tatjana Papić is a professor of international law and international human rights law at the Union University Belgrade Law School and a visiting professor at University of Michigan Law School. Papić’s present research explores the role of narratives on international law, in both international and domestic discourse. Her academic publications cover topics of international responsibility, human rights, and the interactions between international law and domestic politics, including how states receive, adopt, or resist international law domestically. 

Lucas Lixinski is a professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney. He holds a PhD in International Law from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), an LLM in Human Rights Law from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), and an LLB from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil). He researches and teaches across a range of fields in international law, primarily international cultural heritage law and international human rights law. 

Benedict Kingsbury is Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He has served as Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice since its founding in 2002. His current work focuses on physical, digital, and informational infrastructure (Infrareg); global data/tech law (including digital sequence data, earth systems data issues, and generative AI); and a new project on planetary and space governance issues and rethinking approaches to law and law-making.