Andreas R. Ziegler studied economics, international relations and law at the University of St. Gallen, SciencesPo (Paris) and the European University Institute. He carried out post-doctoral studies in the US, Australia, and Germany. In 2001, he became a professor at the University of Lausanne, where he now heads the Center for Comparative, European and International Law.
Michael Lysander Fremuth studied law at the University of Cologne, where he received his doctorate in 2010. He has been visiting researcher in the US, Russia, and Turkey, and guest professor at several German universities. In 2019, he became Professor for Fundamental and Human Rights at the University of Vienna and Scientific Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights, as well as of the master program in human rights, which he founded at Vienna University in 2021.
Berta Hernández-Truyol is an internationally renowned human rights scholar engaged in initiatives to develop, expand, and transform the human rights discourse related to gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexuality, language, and other vulnerabilities. She travels broadly to discuss and teach human rights and has made presentations and offered courses all over the world.