Ilias Bantekas is Professor of International Law, Hamad bin Khalifa University (Qatar Foundation) and senior fellow at IALS University of London. He has held human rights-related academic posts at leading law schools, including Brunel University, SOAS, Harvard and Trier. He has advised governments, international organisations and NGOs in most fields of human rights and international law, and was a member of the Greek Truth Committee on Debt. His recent books include: Sovereign Debt and Human Rights (with C. Lumina, 2018) and Commentary on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (edited with M. A. Stein and D. Anastasiou, 2018).
Lutz Oette is a Reader in International Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and Director of the SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law. He has pursued human rights cases before several regional and international bodies and engaged with a range of actors in standard setting, comparative research, advocacy and reform projects aimed at developing and implementing international human rights standards, particularly on the prohibition of torture. He is the editor of Criminal Law Reform and Transitional Justice: Human Rights Perspectives for Sudan (2011) and co-editor of Constitution-making and human rights in the Sudans (with M. A. Babiker, 2018).