Christian von Bar is an Emeritus Professor and former director of the European Legal Studies Institute, Osnabrück, Germany. Specialising in private international, tort, and property law, von Bar chaired the Study Group on a European Civil Code. He is a fellow (Hon.) of the British Academy, an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn, and holder of the Leibniz Prize, Germany's highest academic honour.
Jason Grant Allen is an Associate Professor of Law at Singapore Management University's Yong Pung How School of Law. He read Law and German at the University of Tasmania, Australia, completed graduate level legal studies at both the Universität Augsburg, Germany and Cambridge University, UK, and then post-doctoral research at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Centre for British Studies. He is a member of the UNIDROIT expert working group on the private law applicable to digital assets.