Stacy Banwell is Professor of Criminology at the University of Greenwich. Her research interests include gender and the violence(s) of war/armed conflict, climate-related gender-based violence and multi-species climate justice, as well as conflict-related sexual and reproductive violence against human and nonhuman populations.

Florian Breitsameter is a law student at the University of Augsburg and a former DAAD scholar at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. He works as a research assistant and focuses on comparative constitutional and criminal law, particularly their intersection, with additional research on constitutional approaches to the protection of animals. His scholarship has appeared in German and French journals.

Yolanda Eisenstein is an animal lawyer, adjunct professor, and author. Her most recent book is Careers in Animal Law, 2nd ed. She is president of the Animal Law Commission and a UN representative of the Union Internationale des Avocats. She serves on the boards of Lawyers for Animal Protection in Africa and Wild Animal Initiative.

Dr. Naresh Prajapati is an Assistant Professor of Law at Bennett University, India. His research appears in leading Scopus-indexed journals and has informed academic discussions in the United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Kazakhstan, and Türkiye. His scholarship engages International Law, International Environmental Law, Human Rights, and climate justice within comparative frameworks.

Christina Warner is an award-winning barrister and founder of Ruby’s Law, a campaign advocating for legal reform to protect pets in domestic abuse cases. Specialising in family and animal protection law, she focuses on the intersection of domestic abuse, child protection, and animal welfare in legal proceedings.

Venla Mathlein is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Turku. Her research examines intersections of consumer law and animal law. She teaches in the AniLex Programme at Åbo Akademi University and lectures on animal law at the University of Turku. She serves as Chair of the Finnish Animal Rights Law Society.

Daniel Allen is Senior Lecturer in Animal Geography at Keele University, UK. He founded the evidence-based Pet Theft Reform campaign (2018-) and influenced UK policy change with the creation of the Pet Abduction Act 2024. His research explores human-animal relations in policy and practice.

Phoebe is the Senior Scientific and Policy Officer for pigs, within the RSPCA’s Farm Animals Department, dedicated to advancing the welfare of pigs raised on farms. She has a PhD in pig welfare with a focus on gilt and sow welfare. At the RSPCA, she contributes to the development of pig welfare standards, covering on-farm, transport and slaughter standards.

Dulki holds an LL.M. and M.Phil. from the University of Colombo, specialising in animal welfare law, and serves as Legal Researcher at CELP, Faculty of Law. She was the first Sri Lankan awarded a full scholarship to Lewis & Clark’s Online LL.M. in Animal Law, graduating with Honors and receiving the 2025 Outstanding Animal Law LLM Graduate Award. 

Vanessa is an animal welfare lawyer and works on behalf of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Animal Welfare (APGAW) as their Legal Advisor. She is also a member of the Legal Advisory Group on Extreme Conformation in Dogs and a member of DAERA’s Expert Advisory Panel on the review of dog breeding regulations in Northern Ireland.

Felicity is a socio-legal-ecological researcher at RegNet, Australian National University. Her interdisciplinary research explores restorative and democratic innovations for human-wildlife coexistence, examining how environmental restorative justice and multispecies justice can support more relationally attuned, resilient and practically grounded approaches to multispecies Earth governance.

Scott is an Associate Professor in Business Law and an academic member of the Centre for Competition Policy at UEA. His research predominately focuses on: (i) competition and vulnerability considerations in veterinary service markets, (ii) ethical and legal usage GenAI in research, and (iii) the legal education of non-law students.

Oliver Francis-Jones (LLB, LLM) is a member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, soon to be called to the Bar of England and Wales. Combining a decade of insight in the equestrian industry with legal experience, he is a keen advocate for animal welfare.

Demi holds a law degree (BCL) from University College Dublin and is a Senior Associate in the Asset Management team of an international law firm. Demi’s lifelong love of animals (especially dogs) has led to her co-founding Dog Law Ireland and Animal Law Network Ireland.

Colette Schefer-Peisker is a doctoral candidate at Prof. Dr. Norer’s Chair of Public Law and Rural Law at the University of Lucerne. Her research focuses on animal welfare in slaughter. In addition to her dissertation, Colette has written several articles on animal welfare law. Alongside her research, Colette works as a lawyer in environmental consulting.

Marine is a researcher in animal rights law, with a decade of experience in
academia, animal advocacy, and politics. She is the Executive Director of the
International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics (ICARE) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Animal Rights Law (JARL). She also sits on the board of Culture and Animals Foundation (CAF).

Bryce Barthuly is a computational criminologist whose work examines cybercrime, wildlife trafficking, and IUU fishing. He serves as a data scientist at John Jay College in NYC and as a professor at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, leading U.S. State Department initiatives strengthening global capacity to combat transnational organized crime.

Shreya is an animal and environmental lawyer with an integrated degree in Science and Law. She leads programs at the Animal Law Centre at NALSAR University of Law, and serves on the Asia Steering Committee with Thrive Philanthropy and as a Grant Advisor with The Pollination Project.

Mo Esan is a PhD researcher in African Animal Law at the University of Birmingham. Her thesis title is Investigating the Animal Welfare Strategy for Africa (AWSA) through the lens of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).