Jamal Barnes is a senior lecturer in criminology at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. His research interests include human rights, migration and refugee issues, torture and ill treatment, and international norms and laws. He is the author of the book A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo, published by Routledge in 2017. j.barnes@ecu.edu.au

Larissa Fast is professor of humanitarian and conflict studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Research Institute at the University of Manchester. She is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of the worlds of academia, policy, and practice. Her research addresses two fundamental problems: how best to protect civilians, particularly those who intervene in violent conflict, and how to make such intervention more effective, ethical, and responsive to local needs and circumstances. In addition to her monograph Aid in Danger: The Perils and Promise of Humanitarianism (2014), she has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles and policy reports. larissa.fast@manchester.ac.uk

David A. Lake is distinguished professor of political science in the graduate division at the University of California San Diego. The author and co-editor of numerous books and over one hundred articles and chapters, he has published widely in international relations theory and international political economy. dlake@ucsd.edu

Mathias Risse is Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy at Harvard University, where he also serves as the director of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights. He works in moral and political philosophy as well as in the philosophy of technology. mathias_risse@hks.harvard.edu

Filip J. Scherf is a researcher at the University of St Andrews and a Europaeum scholar at the University of Oxford. He is also a research associate at the Margaret Beaufort Institute in Cambridge and lectures on political risk at Charles University. He holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and a master of letters from the University of St Andrews. His 2024 book A Lost Land: The Story of Modern Russia (in Czech) was longlisted for the Czech Book of the Year Award. fs86@st-andrews.ac.uk

Wendy H. Wong is professor of political science and principal’s research chair at the University of British Columbia in Okanagan. She is the author of three award-winning books, including We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (2023), which won the 2024 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. w.wong@ubc.ca