Jaco Barnard-Naudé is Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director of the Centre for Rhetoric Studies (CRhS) at the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Law Faculty, South Africa. From 2020 to 2021, he was a Research Professor in the Free State Centre for Human Rights at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is a past recipient of the UCT Fellows' Award and was the British Academy's Newton Advanced Fellow in the Westminster Law and Theory Lab at the University of Westminster Law School, UK, from 2017 to 2020. Jaco holds a B2-rating from the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) and is also a past Honorary Research Fellow of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He publishes widely in the fields of Jurisprudence, Law and Literature, Spatial Justice, Queer Legal Theory, Contractual Justice after Apartheid and Transitional Post-Apartheid Justice.

Julia Chryssostalis is Principal Lecturer and Co-Director of the Westminster Law and Theory Lab at the University of Westminster Law School, UK. She became an academic after practising law as a lawyer in Athens, Greece, while chairing the Human Rights Education Committee of the Greek Section of Amnesty International. She has held Visiting Fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, Princeton University, USA and University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her current work is in the interface of critical legal theory and law and humanities exploring the different names and figures of nomos.