Statement by International Lawyers, ESIL Members, and ESIL Interest Group Convenors related to the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at Freie Universität Berlin
To the ESIL board and its individual members (Gleider Hernández, Freya Baetens, Christian Tams, Ganna Yudkivska, Veronika Fikfak, Helmut Aust, Giulio Bartolini, Edouard Fromageau, Patrycja Grzebyk, Neha Jain, Machiko Kanetake, Patryk Labuda, Sarah Nouwen, Federica Paddeu, Daniel Peat, Ana Salinas and Silvia Steininger),
On Wednesday 12 February, the Executive Board of Freie Universität Berlin (FU) cancelled a public in person event hosting UN Special Rapporteur and scholar of international law Francesca Albanese and Forensic Architecture Director and professor of architecture Eyal Weizman due to take place on 19 February at FU. In an astounding perversion and cynical use of the term, the statement invokes ‘academic freedom’ as the basis for cancelling a public lecture. The letter refers to concerns of ‘security’ and ‘polarization’ – classic tropes, as international lawyers know all too well, deployed by those seeking to curtail this freedom.
This is a deeply troubling decision. It is the result, as Isabel Feichtner notes, of a concerted campaign of intimidation levelled against Francesca Albanese, the holder of a mandate by the Human Rights Council who has extensively reported on the violence inflicted on the Palestinian people. It is a campaign in which FU now appears to be complicit, as was also underlined by the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics in Germany and a broad coalition of civil society organisations. Crucially, the cancellation reflects a troubling pattern of suppression of academic freedom and of freedom of expression more generally, which particularly affects Palestinian voices and those critical of Israel’s policies. This extends beyond universities, with both governments and non-state actors being active vehicles for the deliberate silencing of discussions on the violence in Palestine. As Khaled El Mahmoud argues, while fundamental rights and freedoms are hereby increasingly sacrificed for political expediency and ideological conformity, it is ever more important that universities can serve as ‘bastions of free speech and intellectual courage’.
The title of the public event – Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy. Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide – has been described as polarising. Yet, this title merely references legal terminology associated with the right to be protected against genocide. Already in January last year, the ICJ observed there is ‘a real and imminent risk that irreparable prejudice will be caused to the rights found by the Court to be plausible’ – referring to ‘the right of the Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide’ (paras. 54 and 74). Only a few months ago, in November last year, in communicating the arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber ‘found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the lack of food, water, electricity and fuel, and specific medical supplies, created conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the civilian population in Gaza, which resulted in the death of civilians, including children due to malnutrition and dehydration’. Yet, in a statement following the cancellation by a collective of legal scholars – including the local organisers of the annual conference – the planned event was implicitly qualified as ‘antisemitic’ while the political intimidation and subsequent cancellation were portrayed as forms of ‘valid criticism’. The statement thereby directly contributes to a climate of (self-)censorship that threatens academic freedom.
Let us therefore call this cancellation what it is: the participation of an academic institution in the silencing of voices who mapped and legally interpreted the conduct of Israel, its leaders, and its allies in relation to the Palestinian people. It should not matter what one’s perspective is on the legal qualification of the violence to consider the cancellation an affront to academic freedom. It should not matter how one thinks the event might have been designed differently to protect its place in public debate. As clearly underscored by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, ‘[t]he genocide in Gaza, the violation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory and the failure of Israel to respect its international legal obligations, including the occupation of Palestinian territory, are matters of global public interest’ and ‘[t]here is no scope for restricting freedom of expression on such matters’.
This year’s ESIL Annual Conference is organized precisely at the academic institution which chose to silence Francesca Albanese and Eyal Weizman. This is a conference promising to explore international law’s role in addressing ‘mass violence and systemic wrongs’ and push the discipline towards ‘equality, diversity, and inclusivity’. It is evident that these aims are impossible to achieve in an institutional context that is complicit in the political and academic silencing of voices who strive to document and end atrocities and human rights violations.
Even the live-streaming FU agreed to facilitate afterwards was accompanied by police forces of around twenty officers on site, which the FU called in, again citing a ‘security situation’ without any further information or substantiation. We are worried that an ESIL annual conference at FU following these events will have chilling effects in relation to all legal scholarship and future events that do not fit German Staatsräson (reason of state). A firm stance has to be taken against these actions as a matter of principle as well as solidarity.
We, as international lawyers, ESIL members and convenors of ESIL Interest Groups, therefore consider that, in light of our professional responsibility as international lawyers to stand up for the principles enshrined in and promoted by our discipline, including the value of academic freedom, our participation to the ESIL Annual Conference is untenable without a strong public statement from the ESIL board, which:
(i) condemns the decision by FU’s Executive Board (which should be self-evident in light of its significant legal, conceptual, and intellectual flaws) and makes continuation of the annual conference conditional upon acknowledgment of the wrong;
(ii) declares its public commitment to the right of academic freedom that is threatened by both the initial cancellation and the later statement; and
(iii) confirms that diverse voices are welcome at the ESIL Annual Conference. This includes the perspectives by scholars – including Francesca Albanese and Eyal Weizman – who are critical of Israel’s conduct in relation to the Palestinian people. The board can accomplish this by making the organisation of the annual conference at FU conditional upon the guarantee that these perspectives can be shared and debated freely.
Taking these actions would be a testimony to ESIL’s commitment to academic freedom and the stated principles of both this year’s conference and ESIL as a whole. Without a firm statement and commitment, we see no way to participate in this year’s conference.
We understand and appreciate the significant labor involved in organizing these gatherings. We therefore write this letter in good faith and with the hope of finding common ground and convening together in Berlin in September.
The letter is open for signature here.
[Note: this letter was shared and opened for signature prior to the Statement of the ESIL President distributed on 26 February 2025].
Endorsed by
- Stefania Di Stefano, Geneva Graduate Institute, Co-Convenor of IG on International Law and Technology and Co-Coordinator of the ESIL Early-Career Network Committee
- Barrie Sander, Leiden University, Co-Convenor of IG on International Law and Technology
- Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Sciences Po Law School, Co-Convenor of IG on International Law and Technology
- Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, Queen Mary University of London, Co-Convenor of IG on International Law and Technology
- Roxana Vatanparast, Capital University Law School, Co-Convenor of IG on International Law and Technology
- Marie Petersmann, LSE Law School, Chair and Convenor of Agora 6 at the latest ESIL Annual Conference in 2024
- Nehal Bhuta, University of Edinburgh, Former ESIL Board member, ex officio
- Jean d’Aspremont, Sciences Po Law School, Former ESIL Board member
- Anna Sophia Tiedeke, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
- Alessandra Spadaro, Utrecht University
- Dr Sarah Zarmsky, Queen’s University Belfast
- Daniela Vitiello, University of Tuscia, Co-Convenor of IG on Migration and Refugee Law
- Başak Etkin, University of Groningen
- Gail Lythgoe, University of Edinburgh, ESIL Member of the ESIL Diversity Advisory Body
- Kostia Gorobets, University of Groningen,
- Henning Lahmann, Leiden University, Co-Convenor of the IG on Peace & Security
- Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet, Sciences Po Law School, Host of ESIL 2006
- Dr Vidya Kumar, SOAS University of London, UK
- Lys Kulamadayil, Geneva Graduate Institute,
- Nicola Perugini, University of Edinburgh
- Neve Gordon, Queen Mary University of London
- Saeed Bagheri, University of Reading, Co-Convenor of the IG on Peace & Security
- Sissy Katsoni, Postdoctoral researcher (Tilburg University), Co-Convenor of IG on Migration and Refugee Law
- Akbar Rasulov, University of Glasgow
- Isobel Roele, Queen Mary university of London
- Lorenzo Gasbarri, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Co-convenor of the ESIL IG on International Organisations
- Tim Lindgren, Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam, Co-Convenor of IG on Critical Approaches to International Law
- Julia Emtseva, EUI, Co-Convenor of IG on Critical Approaches to International Law
- Christine Carpenter, University of Cambridge
- Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, University of Edinburgh, Former Co-Convenor of IG on International Criminal Justice
- Geoff Gordon, Asser Institute, University of Amsterdam
- Klaudia Klonowska, Asser Institute, Former ESIL presenter
- Eliana Cusato, Amsterdam Law School
- Jasmin Wachau, Universität Erfurt
- Benjamin Schuetze, Arnold Bergstraesser Institut
- Otto Spijkers, Leiden University College, Co-Convenor of IG on International Environmental Law, and Co-Convenor of IG on International Human Rights Law
- Irene Manganini, Geneva Graduate Institute,
- Samuel Ballin, Radboud University
- Claire Debucquois, EUI/FNRS
- Eva Nanopoulos, Queen Mary Law School
- Emily Jones, Newcastle University, Former co-coordinator of the ESIL Feminism and International Law Interest Group
- Michelle Staggs Kelsall, SOAS University of London,
- Chamu Kuppuswamy, University of Hertfordshire, Co-Convenor of IG on International Environmental Law
- Sué González Hauck, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg,
- Kebene Wodajo, ETHZ
- Joyce De Coninck, EUI, Co-convenor of the IG on International Human Rights Law
- Dr Vanja Hamzić, SOAS University of London
- Matilda Arvidsson, University of Gothenburg
- Isabel Feichtner, University of Würzburg
- Tendayi Achiume, Stanford Law School, Former keynote speaker (Utrecht Annual Conference)
- Khaled El Mahmoud, University of Potsdam
- Ugo Mattei, UC Law SF; Università Torino
- Kai Ambos, Universität Göttingen
- Richard Clements, Tilburg Law School
- Dr. Florian Meinel, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Michael Picard, University of Edinburgh
- Dr. Anna Katharina Mangold, LL.M. (Cambridge), Europa-Universität Flensburg
- Amin Parsa, Halmstad University–Sweden, Former Forum speaker
- Ahmed Abed, Lawyer, Berlin, Board of Vereinigung demokratischer Jurist:innen
- Professor Ratna Kapur, Queen Mary University of London
- Matthias Goldmann, EBS University (Germany)
- Gavin Sullivan, Edinburgh Law School, The University of Edinburgh, Former Co-convenor of IG on International Law and Technology
- Siddharth de Souza, University of Warwick, Former ESIL Forum Speaker
- Iona McEntee, University of Strathclyde
- Julie Billaud, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Elena Caruso, Waterloo
- Malcolm Jorgensen, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
- Kanad Bagchi, University of Amsterdam, Co-convenor of IG on Critical Approaches to International Law
- Miriam Heipertz, University of Amsterdam
- Anna Ventouratou, University of Sheffield, Co-Convenor of IG on Feminism and International Law
- Professor Ralph Wilde, Faculty of Laws, University College London, University of London, Former ESIL Board Member, Former ESIL IG Co-Convenor
- Tommaso Soave, Central European University, Co-Convenor of the IG on Social Sciences and International Law
- Shahd Hammouri, University of Kent, Former ESIL attendee and panelist
- Jinan Bastaki, NYUD
- Juan Auz, Tilburg University
- Feja Lesniewska, University of Surrey
- Eva Brems, Ghent University
- Kalika Mehta, Humboldt University of Berlin
- Daragh Murray, Queen Mary University of London
- Clara Van Thillo, KU Leuven
- Plixavra Vogiatzoglou , University of Amsterdam
- Vasuki Nesiah, NYU
- Nico Krisch, Geneva Graduate Institute, Former ESIL Board Member
- Ata Hindi, Birzeit/Tulane
- Brigitte Herremans, Ghent University
- Anne Saab, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Pola Cebulak, VU Amsterdam
- Nahed Samour, Radboud University
- Ioannis Kampourakis, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Abdurrahman Erol, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Alessandra Arcuri, Erasmus School of Law
- Nicolas Angelet, Université libre de Bruxelles, Ghent University, Brussels Bar
- Alex P. Dela Cruz, Tilburg Law School
- Dr Ntina Tzouvala, UNSW, Faculty of Global and Public Law
- S Michael Lynk, Professor Emeritus, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada & former UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the OPT
- Gentian Zyberi, University of Oslo
- Siobhan Airey, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Phillip Paiement, Tilburg University
- Parvathi Menon, SOAS University of London
- Ruben Wissing, Ghent University
- Federica Violi, Erasmus School of Law
- Rama Sahtout , University of Exeter
- Guillermo Coronado Aguilar, The University of Hong Kong
- Noha Aboueldahab, Georgetown University
- Sumedha Choudhury, University of Melbourne
- Mario Prost, Keele University, Former ESIL Board Member
- Gabriel Mantelli, University of Sao Paulo, PhD Candidate
- Tanvee Nandan, UniMelb
- Cris van Eijk, Newcastle Law School
- Apoorva Sharma, La Trobe University
- Neus Torbisco-Casals, Geneva Graduate Institute
- John Sebastian, University of Melbourne
- Tara Van Ho, University of Essex
- André Dao, Melbourne Law School
- Asad Kiyani, University of Victoria Faculty of Law
- Dr Julia Dehm, La Trobe University, Australia
- Dr Richard Joyce, Melbourne Law School
- Claerwen O’Hara, Melbourne Law School, Attendee at the Conference
- Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths
- Leona Morgan, Ghent University and UWC
- Micaela Frulli, University of Florence
- Sophie Bols, Ghent University
- Nora Markard, University of Münster
- Charalambos APOSTOLIDIS, UNIVERSITE DE BOURGOGNE – EUROPE,
- Sarah Thin, Radboud University Nijmegen, Co-Convenor of IG on International Courts and Tribunals
- Charlotte Vercammen, Ghent University
- Goran Sandić, University of Belgrade—Faculty of Political Science
- Rea Apostolidis, EU
- Madi Rania, Law for Palestine
- Ewa Górska, University of Wroclaw
- Negar Mansouri, Copenhagen Business School, Former member of the Coordinating Committee for IG on International Organizations
- Veronica Botticelli, Co-Convenor of IG on International Courts and Tribunals
- Lachezar Yanev, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Seline Trevisanut, Utrecht University School of Law, Former co-opted ESIL Board Member (as local organiser); former co-convenor of IG on the law of the sea
- Kerttuli Lingenfelter, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Co-Convenor of IG on Peace and Security
- Guido Bartolini, Ghent University,
- Giulia Raimondo, University of Fribourg, Co-Convenor of IG on Migration and Refugee Law
- Rory Sugrue, Tilburg Law School
- Cristina María Zamora Gómez, Universidad de Alicante, Co-Convenor of IG on Feminism and International Law
- Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, University of Amsterdam
- Zuzanna Godzimirska, University of Copenhagen, Co-convenor of IG on Social Sciences and International Law
- Andrea Longo , School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Co-Convenor of IG on Law of the Sea
- Marusa T. Veber, University of Ljubljana
- Juliana Santos de Carvalho, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
- Elena Abrusci, Brunel University of London, Co-Convenor of IG on International Human Rights Law
- Olivier Corten , Université libre de Bruxelles
- Daria Boklan, HSE, Co-Convenor of IG on international environmental law
- Pierre Klein, Université libre de Bruxelles
- Dubuisson François, Université libre de Bruxelles (Centre de droit international)
- Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, University of Murcia
- Ksenia Polonskaya, Carleton University, Co-Convenor of IG on Feminism and International Law
- Andrea Pelliconi, University of Southampton
- Francesca Iurlaro, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law
- Elif Durmuş, University of Antwerp
- Rohini Sen, Jindal Global Law School, Co-convenor of IG on Critical Approaches to International Law
- Debolina Bhatt, the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)
- Marion Sandner, University of Antwerp, ESIL Panellist
- Katharine Fortin, Utrecht University
- Anastasiya Kotova, Lund University
- Frédéric Mégret, McGill University
- Dr Ozlem Ulgen, School of Law, University of Nottingham, UK, Chair of IG on International Legal and Philosophy
- Alezini Loxa, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Lund University
- Rafael Bustos, University Complutense of Madrid
- Christine Schwöbel-Patel, University of Warwick
- Marie Van Espen, Ghent University
- Hedvig Lärka, Gothenburg University
- Alexander Schwarz, ECCHR
- Ilja Richard Pavone, National Research Council of Italy, Convenor of IG on International Biolaw
- David Scott, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen Mary University of London
- Serde Atalay, Lund University
- Tamara Tamimi, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University Belfast
- Dr Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School, University of Kent
- Michele Tedeschini Freie Universität Berlin
- Irene Couzigou, University of Aberdeen, Co-Convenor of the IG on Peace and Security
- Ezgi Yildiz, California State University, Long Beach, Co-Convener of IG on Social Sciences and International Law
- Marisa McVey, Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast
- Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of London
- Fabienne Bossuyt, Ghent University
- Vladimir Bogoeski, University of Amsterdam
- Caleb H Wheeler, Cardiff University, Chair and Co-Convenor, IG on International Criminal Justice
- Boyd van Dijk, Oxford
- Aoife O’Donoghue, Queen’s University Belfast School of Law
- Wim Zimmermann, University of Salzburg, Co-Convenor of IG on Social Sciences and International Law
- Praggya Surana, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Emilia Klebanowski, Radboud University
- William Schabas, Middlesex University London
- Gleb Bogush, University of Cologne
- Marco Longobardo, University of Westminster
- Ines Willemyns, Stanford University, Co-Convenor of IG on International Economic Law
- Hasan Basri Bülbül, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
- Paola Zichi, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Warwick Law School
- Jane A Hofbauer, University of the Bundeswehr Munich
- Nicolás Carrillo, University of Cagliari
- Arnulf Becker Lorca, EUI
- Fuad Zarbiyev, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Colin Murray, Newcastle University
- Sophie Duroy, University of Essex
- Angelina Fisher, NYU School of Law
- Maria Aristodemou, Birkbeck, University of London
- Triantafyllos Kouloufakos, KU Leuven
- Luigi Prosperi, Utrecht University
- Thomas Wienand, Danish Prosecution Service
- Daniel Stein, OP Jindal Law School
- Dr Prabhpreet Singh, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Pune Lavasa Campus, Co-Convenor of IG on Peace and Security
- Rachel Griffin, Sciences Po Paris
- Alexios Hassis, University of Würzburg
- Elia Alexiou, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
- Sotirios Lekkas, Lecturer in International Law, University of Sheffield
- Antje Kunst, GCN Chambers
- Sergey Vasiliev, Open University of the Netherlands
- David Rossati, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Ahmed Ayoub, Phd Candidate, University of Hamburg and Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Paolo Mazzotti, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
- Julián Suárez, University College Cork
- Céline Braumann, University of Ottawa
- Benedetta Arrighini, ULB Bruxelles
- Tor Krever, University of Cambridge
- Dr Mohamed Mahayni, Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS)
- Raghavi Viswanath, SOAS, University of London
- Andrea Farrés , University of Barcelona
- Joelle Trampert, University of Amsterdam
- Anil Yilmaz, Essex University
- Shoura Zehetner-Hashemi, Amnesty International Austria
- Toni Selkälä, University of Turku
- Berna Akcali Gur, United Nations University – CRIS
- Dr Martin Clark, Melbourne Law School, Formr Co-Convenor of IG on the History of International Law
- William Hamilton Byrne, University of Copenhagen
- Luca Pasquet, Utrecht University
- Sara Dal Monico, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- Carlos Karim Zazueta Vargas, International lawyer
- Sophia Zisakou, Lund University
- Alessandro Bufalini, Tuscia University (Viterbo)
- Rob Howse, New York University School of Law
- Alexandre Skander Galand, Maastricht University, Co-convenor of IG on International Criminal Justice
- Maike Middeler, Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg
- Anna Saunder, Australian National University
- Aravind Ganesh, University of Sussex
- Sara Arapiles, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University, Co-Convenor of IG on Migration and Refugee Law
- Jessica Whyte, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of New South Wales
- Valentin Schatz, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
- Joanna Kyriakakis, Monash University Faculty of Law
- Dr Riccardo Vecellio Segate, University of Groningen
- Akram Mohamed, Universität Hamburg
- Antoine Comont, Université de Bordeaux & Université Laval
- Mitchell Lennan, University of Aberdeen
- Joachim Strzelecki, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Dimitrios A. Kourtis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Vaios Koutroulis, Université libre de Bruxelles
- Tourmous Karim, Attorney at Walloon Brabant’s bar
- Kiki Brölmann, University of Amsterdam
- Giuseppe Emanuele Corsaro, Università degli Studi di Catania
- Anne Millet-Devalle, Université Côte d’Azur
- Alicja Polakiewicz, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Ranyta Yusran, Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Law, Lund University
- Elsa Tsioumani, University of Liege
- Moritz Vinken, Max Planck Institute for comparative public law and international law
- Mariano J. Aznar, Universitat Jaume I, Co-Founder and former ESIL Board Member
- Susan Marks, London School of Economics, Former ESIL Board member
- Kheda Djanaralieva, Centre de droit international (Université de Bruxelles)
- Fiona Argenta, Centre de droit international, ULB
- Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana
- Pratik Purswani, Jindal Global Law School
- Immi Tallgren, SOAS; University of Helsinki
- Matteo Colorio, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
- Waleed Mahmoud, Gent University
- Amanda Brown, SOAS School of Law
- Rafael Carrano Lelis, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Dr Sara Dehm, University of Texhnology Sydney
- Fannie Lafontaine, Université Laval
- Charlotte Sieber-Gasser, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Michelle Pace, Roskilde University
- Helena Van Roosbroeck
- Mohammad Shahabuddin, University of Birmingham
- Dena Kirpalani, IHEID
- Heidi Matthews, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
- Ingo Venzke University of Amsterdam
- Oğuzhan Öztürk, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University
- Federica Cittadino, Eurac Research
- Alexandra Fowler, University of Westminster School of Law
- Işıl Aral, Koç University
- John D. Haskell, University of Manchester, Former Co-Convenor, IG Legal Theory and Philosophy
- Jinú Carvajalino, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Francisco-José Quintana, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Justina Uriburu, University of Manchester
- Mariela de Amstalden, Faculty of Law
- Connor McBain, University of Ulster
- Daniele Amoroso, Università degli studi di Cagliari
- Kristoffer Burck, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
- Sarah Riley Case, McGill University Faculty of Law
- Selman Aksunger, Maastricht university
- Petter Danckwardt, Örebro University
- Henry Jones Durham Law School, Durham University
- Betül Durmuş, Hertie School
- Christine Frison, University of Liège
- Alexander Krüger, Umeå University
- Andre Nunes Chaib Maastricht University
- Wim Muller, Maastricht University
- Nicolas Lamp, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University
- Saika Sabir, La Trobe University
- Corina Heri, Tilburg University
- Amjed Rasheed, King’s College London
- Renske Vos, VU Amsterdam
- Alexandra Kemmerer, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht
- Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann, Strathclyde Law School, University of Strathclyde
- Carmelo Faleh Pérez, Professor of Public International Law at the ULPGC (Spain) and Legal Advisor at the Spanish Association for International Human Rights Law (SSIHRL)
- Luigi Daniele, Nottingham Law School (NTU)
- Carlos Gil Gandia, Universidad de las palmas de gran canaria
- Sana Ouechtati, Carthage University, Former speaker ESIL 2008
- Carlos Villán Durán President, Spanish Society for IHRL
- Weronika Betta, Sciences Po Law School
- Nicolás Navarro, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Haris Jamil, University of Melbourne
- Oguz Kaan Pehlivan, Independent Researcher
- Johanna Trittenbach, Leiden University
- Farnaz Dezfouli Asl, Justus Liebig University Giessen
- Emre Acar, Leiden University
- Prabhakar Singh, BML Munjal University
- Nicolas Boeglin, Profesor de Derecho Internacional Publico, Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR)
- Dina Waked, Sciences Po Law School
- Matilde Masetti Placci, University of Edinburgh
- Alain Pellet, Nanterre Université
- So Yeon Kim, University of Essex
- Dr Megan Donaldson, UCL
- Gabriele Wadlig, TU Dresden
- Marycruz Arcos, University of Sevilla
- Matthew Windsor, University of Nottingham School of Law
- Sami Zemni Ghent University
- Grażyna Baranowska, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Surabhi Ranganathan, University of Cambridge