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General Editors & Advisory Board

General Editors

Professor Jeff King, General Editor, is a Professor of Law at University College London (UCL), a Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He sits on the Editorial Committee of Public Law, the General Council of the International Society of Public Law (ICON Society), and is a member of the Study of Parliament Group.

Professor Octávio Ferraz, General Editor, is co-director of the Transnational Law Institute and a Professor in Transnational Law at King's College, London. He is also a global fellow at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a member of the international editorial committee of Suprema – Revista de Estudos Constitucionais of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal.

Area Editors

Professor Jeff King, Area Editor for legal frameworks, institutions and oversight, and social policy.

Professor Octávio Ferraz, Area Editor for public health law.

Professor Tendayi Achiume, Area Editor for migration and race. She is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at University of California, Los Angeles, and currently serves as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance.

Professor Alan Bogg, Area Editor for labour law. He is Professor of Labour Law at the Bristol University Law School.

Dr Natalie Byrom, Area Editor for access to justice. She is Director of Research and Learning, Legal Education Foundation, and the UK Independent Reviewer of Covid-19 Adaptations to Courts.

Professor Cathryn Costello, Area Editor for migration. She is Professor of Fundamental Rights and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School of Government, Berlin, and Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law (on leave) at the University of Oxford.

Professor Nicola Countouris, Area Editor for Italy and Cuba is the Director of the Research Department at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and a Professor in Labour Law and European Law at the Faculty of Laws of University College London (UCL). Before joining the ETUI and UCL he had taught law at the Universities of Reading, LSE, and Oxford.

Professor Colleen M. Flood, Area Editor for comparative health law. She is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa and University Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. She is also the Director for the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics.

Professor Eva Pils, Area Editor for authoritarianism. She is a Professor of Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London, where she teaches human rights, public law, and law and society in China.

Professor Nico Steytler, Area Editor for federalism and multilevel government. He is a Professor of Public Law and the South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government Law and Policy at the Community Law Centre, the University of the Western Cape.

Dr Silvia Suteu, Area Editor for gender. She is a Lecturer in Public Law at Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL).

Dr Bryan Thomas, Area Editor for comparative health law. He is a Research Associate at the Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, University of Ottawa.

Dr Michael Veale, General Editor, Area Editor for privacy. He is a Lecturer in Digital Rights and Regulation at the Faculty of Laws at University College London (UCL).

Dr Pedro A. Villarreal, Area Editor for international and comparative health law. He is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.

International Advisory Board

Carlos Bernal-Pulido is a Professor of Law at the University of Dayton, Ohio, and an Associate Professor at Macquarie Law School (Sydney, Australia). He was formerly a Justice of the Colombian Constitutional Court.

Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor for Public Law, European Law, and International and Economic Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt.

Rosalind Dixon is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and Co-President of the International Society of Public Law.

Charles Fombad is a Professor of Law at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa in the Faculty of Law at University of Pretoria and Vice President of the International Association of Constitutional Law

Tarunabh Khaitan is the Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory at Wadham College, Oxford and a Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He is also a Professor and Future Fellow at Melbourne Law School.

David S Law is the Sir YK Pao Chair in Public Law at the University of Hong Kong.

Sandra Liebenberg is HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Stellenbosch. She previously served as Chair of the Technical Committee advising the Constitutional Assembly on the drafting of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of South Africa and is a former member and Vice-Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. She is Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Free State, Centre for Human Rights.

Catherine O'Regan is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and is now the inaugural director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford, where she is also a Professor of Law.

Anne Peters is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg, and a Professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, Basel, and a L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the Law School of the University of Michigan.

Maximilian Steinbeis is a lawyer, writer, and journalist. He is the founder and editor of Verfassungsblog, an academic forum of debate on current issues of constitutional law and politics in Germany and Europe.

Professor Paul Craig is a Professor of English Law and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He specializes in constitutional law, administrative law, EU law, and comparative public law.

Science Advisory Board

Nigel Balmer is the Research Director at the Victoria Law Foundation and a Professor of Law and Social Statistics at University College London (UCL). He is an expert on survey studies of legal needs.

Dame Hazel Genn is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL). She is currently Vice-Provost International at UCL, the Director of the UCL Centre for Access to Justice, and a member of UCL Health of the Public.

Dr. Thomas Hale is Associate Professor of Global Public Policy at the Bavatnik School of Government, Univesity of Oxford, and leader of Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker. 

Richard Holden is Professor of Economics in the UNSW Sydney Business School. He writes about contract theory, law and economics, and political economy.

Dame Anne Johnson is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at University College London, Co-Director of UCL Health of the Public, and President of the Academy of Medical Sciences. She is a member of the UK Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE).

Dr. Michal Nachmany is a Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. Her work focuses on climate legislation and policy globally, and on the role investors play in transitioning to a low carbon economy.

Dr Joe Tomlinson is a Senior Lecturer in Public Law at the University of York and Research Director at the Public Law Project.