Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa is a Senior Lecturer in Law and a Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests range from the globalisation of Western legal forms and the colonial history of international law to emerging developments in human rights and environmental law, including transitional justice in South America and the growing recognition of legal personhood and rights for non-human beings. His work draws on philosophy, critical theory, anthropology, and jurisprudence to explore these themes from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective. He is the founding Co-Director of the Forum on Decentering the Human, Co-Director of the Queen Mary Centre for International Law (CeILa), and founding Co-Director of the Group of Critical Studies in Politics, Law, and Society (PoDeS).

Illan Rua Wall is a Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the University of Galway, School of Law. Until 2023, he was Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, and Director of the Centre for Critical Legal Studies. He is an editor of the blog criticallegalthinking.com, the open-access publisher Counterpress and a managing editor of the journal Law & Critique. He works on questions of protest and disorder, using contemporary critical legal theory.