Ed Bates is an expert on human rights law with a particular focus on the law of the European Convention Human Right (ECHR). He has co-authored the leading textbook on the latter (‘Harris O'Boyle and Warbrick: Law of the European Convention on Human Rights’ Oxford University Press) and is working on a monograph entitled ‘The European Court of Human Rights’ transformative era (the 2010s): decline, further evolution, and realistic future?’ contracted to Oxford University Press. He is a co-author of a book concerning Russia's exit from the ECHR and Council of Europe (E Bates, K Dzehtsiarou, A Forde: 'Russia, the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights (1996-2022): A Troubled Membership and Its Legacy', Bristol University Press, 2025).

Lətif Hüseynov has been serving as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights since 2017. He graduated from Kyiv State University in 1986 and holds a Doctor of Law degree. He was a member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (2004–2015), serving as its President from 2011 to 2015, and has been part of the Council of Europe's Venice Commission since 2003. He previously chaired the Legal Policies Department of Azerbaijan's parliament and has taught law at Baku State University and ADA University.

Isabella Risini is a Professor at Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola. Her 2017 book “The Inter-State Application under the European Convention on Human Rights -Between Collective Enforcement of Human Rights and International Dispute Settlement” set her up for further pieces on inter-State proceedings. Until recently, she was a senior editor at Verfassungsblog responsible for symposia. For the years 2024 and 2025, she is reporting on cases before the ECtHR delivered against States other than Germany for the German Federal Ministry of Justice.

Isabelle Niedlispacher is the Agent to the European Court of Human Rights for the Government of Belgium.

Jenny Sandvig specialises in litigation and dispute resolution. Jenny was Policy Director for the Norwegian National Institution for Human Rights (NHRI). As part of the NHRI’s management, Jenny was responsible for their work on climate and environmental rights.

Jenny has authored Karnov’s commentary on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). She is a co-author on «Klimarett» (Climate law), edited by Prof. Hans Chr. Bugge. Jenny has also co-written several articles published internationally, on the rule of law and climate rights.

Abel Campos studied Law, Economics, and Legal Sciences at the University of Coimbra. He practiced as a lawyer from 1989 to 1991 before joining the former European Commission of Human Rights as a legal officer (1991–1998). Since 1998, Campos has held various roles at the European Court of Human Rights, including Head of Division, Deputy Section Registrar, Section Registrar, and since December 2020, Deputy Registrar. He also served as Secretary to the Human Rights meetings at the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers from 2012 to 2014.

Vice-chairperson of the Steering Committee for Human Rights, she was from 1998 to 2001 a member and later chairperson of the Group of Specialists on Access to Official Information (DH-S-AC) elaborating a recommendation on access to official documents. She was Chairperson of the 7+7 expert Group and the expert negotiating group on EU accession to the European Court of Human Rights, both in 2010-2013 and in the negotiations in 2020-2023. She works as a Deputy Director General in the Legislation department in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security where she inn addition to Council of Europe matters is responsible for EU and EEA questions.

Alex Tallon is the Vice-President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). Within the CCBE, he has also previously been an active member for six years in the Future Committee and in various additional CCBE working groups. Moreover, Alex Tallon has assumed several key leadership roles, serving as the President of the Brussels Bar (NOAB) and subsequently as the Head of the Belgian delegation to the CCBE for two years. He is a member of the Brussels Bar since 1981 and is a founding partner at law firms Praetica and Miles Legal.

Babette Koopman is a member of Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) and the Chairperson of the Drafting Group on the evaluation of the first effects of Protocols No. 15 and No. 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights (DH-SYSC-PRO)

She is the Government agent of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands before the ECHR, and the UN treaty bodies since 2017. Before that she was one of the agents representing the Netherlands before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Philip Leach specialises in international human rights law, both in his capacity as a practising human rights lawyer and as professor of human rights law at Middlesex University. He co-founded and until 2022 was Director of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC).

He is the author of ‘Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights’, 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 2017 and co-author (with Professor Alice Donald) of ‘Parliaments and the European Court of Human Rights’ (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is a member of Matrix Chambers, London.