Judge Lech Garlicki (born in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish jurist and constitutional law specialist. Since 1968 he has worked at the Warsaw University (since 1987 as full professor), in the years 1980-1993 was member of the Warsaw bar, in the years 1993-2001 judge of the Constitutional Court of Poland and in the years 2002-2012 judge of the European Court of Human Right (president of the 4th Section in 2011-2012). He served recently, as visiting professor, at the Tel Aviv University, Hong Kong University, New York University, and at Yale. Judge Garlicki is vice-president of the International Association of Constitutional Law and one of the Founding Members of the European Law Institute. He lectured at numerous universities in Europe, the United States, Israel, Japan, China, and Hong Kong. He is author or editor of over 300 publications in different languages, including a five-volume Commentary to the 1997 Constitution of Poland and two-volume Commentary to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Dr. Adam Bodnar graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw in Poland and the LL.M. Program in Comparative Constitutional Law at the Central European University in Hungary. In 2006, he received his PhD degree in the field of constitutional law from the University of Warsaw. Prior to becoming Poland’s Commissioner for Human Rights in 2015, Dr. Bodnar worked with various non-governmental organizations, including Panaptykon Fund, ClientEarth Polska, Prof. Zbigniew Hołda Association. He was a member of the Civic Legislation Forum operating at Batory Foundation and of the editorial team of kulturaliberalna.pl. From 2004 to 2015, Dr. Bodnar worked for the Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights. He was also an expert in the Agency of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In 2013-2014, Dr. Bodnar was a member of the board of directors of the United Nations Fund for Victims of Torture. In 2001-2004 he worked at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Mangers. He’s also a lecturer at the University of Warsaw since 2006. Dr. Bodnar was awarded the Tolerance Prize by the Polish LGBT organization inn 2011. In 2018, Commissioner for Human Rights Adam Bodnar and his Office were laureates of the Norwegian Rafto Prize awarded to human rights defenders across the world. Adam Bodnar is an author of numerous scientific publications in the field of law.

Tom Ginsburg is Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Tom Ginsburg focuses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective. He holds BA, JD, and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. His latest book, How to Save a Constitutional Democracy, was written with Aziz Z. Huq, and his earlier books include Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003), which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association; The Endurance of National Constitutions (2009), which also won a best book prize from APSA; and Judicial Reputation (2015). He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to gather and analyze the constitutions of all independent nation-states since 1789. Before entering law teaching, he served as a legal adviser at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands, and he continues to work with numerous international development agencies and foreign governments on legal and constitutional reform. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.