Professor Dr. Peter A. Windel was born in 1959. He studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen, being awarded his first and second state-exams by the Ministry of Justice of the state of Baden-Württemberg. In 1991 he earned his Doctor iur. utr. degree and in 1996 his postdoctoral lecture qualification to teach (Habilitation) both civil and civil procedural law from the School of Law of the University of Heidelberg.

He is a member of the Civil Law Teachers Association (ZLV), the Association of Civil Procedural Law Teachers, the Scholarly Association for International Procedural Law, the Reinhäuser Legal Scholars Congress, the Legal Society Ruhr e.V., the Society for the advancement of Legal Sciences e.V. (VFR) and both of the German-Japanese (DJJV) and the German-Taiwanese Jurists Association (DTJV). After being Professor at the University of Bayreuth in 1997 he was called upon to inherit the Chair for Procedural and Civil Law from Professor Dr. Walter Zeiss at the Ruhr University Bochum in 1998. From 2006 to 2008 he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Ruhr University and Vice-Dean from 2008 to 2010. From 2011 to 2014 Professor Windel has been also a member of the Ruhr University’s Senate. Professor Dr. Peter A. Windel has been elected Regional Secretary and Delegate for the convent of the State Northrhine-Westfalica by the German Universities Alliance (DHV) in 2010 and reelected in 2013.

In 2009 he was appointed PI for forensic legal studies at the School of Law of the Ruhr University. He has published numerous books as well as papers in the fields of substantial and procedural law including bankruptcy and liability law in various well renowned legal reviews and journals in German and in English. Some papers have been translated into Mandarin, Japanese, Turkish and Russian.  

Professor Inoue was born in 1949 and received LL.B. from University of Tokyo in 1971. He is now professor of law at Waseda Law School and served as Dean from 2007 to 2010. He is also professor emeritus at University of Tokyo and member of many criminal-law-related committees. Professor Inoue specializes in Criminal jurisprudence and criminal procedure. He has taught a wide range of criminal law subjects and published more than 40 books, articles and essays.

Professor Inoue will be a visiting scholar at the College of Law, National Taiwan University in March 2016. During the visit, he will teach intense course on “Criminal Justice in Japan: Tradition and Reformation”.

Professor Chen-Wishart was born in Taiwan and moved with her family to New Zealand where she was educated. Previously she was a tutor in the History Department and a Senior Lecturer in Law at Otago University and Rhodes Research Fellow at St Hilda College, Oxford. She has held Visiting Professorships at Hong Kong University, and at Auckland, Otago and Canterbury Universities. She has also been an Adjunct Professor of Ohio and Georgia Universities. She delivered the 2009 Hochelaaga lectures at Hong Kong University. Over her career, she has taught a wide range of private and public law subjects.

Christopher Chen is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University (SMU). He received a Ph.D. from University of London (UCL). Christopher Chen's main research interests include financial regulation, derivatives and risk management, financial consumer protection rules, and comparative law, especially in the area of corporate, insurance and financial laws. Dr. Chen writes and publishes in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

Professor Chen will be a visiting scholar at the College of Law, National Taiwan University in May 2016. During the visit, he will teach intense course on “Financial Regulations in Asia”. 

Professor Roth holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science. He specializes in international law, comparative public law, and political and legal theory. His courses include International Law, International Protection of Human Rights, International Prosecution of State Actors, U.S. Foreign Relations Law and Political Theory of Public Law. Before entering academia, he practiced law and served as law clerk to the chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

He is the author of Sovereign Equality and Moral Disagreement (Oxford University Press, 2011), Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law (Oxford University Press, 1999), contributing co-editor (with Gregory H. Fox) of Democratic Governance and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and author of roughly 30 book chapters, journal articles and commentaries dealing with questions of sovereignty, constitutionalism, human rights and democracy.

Robert Klonoff is Jordan D. Schnitzer Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School and has served as Dean since 2007.

He served as an Assistant United States Attorney in D.C.,an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, partner at the international law firm of Jones Day. His academic interests are Civil Procedure, Appellate Litigation and Class Action.   

Dr. von Bernstorff is the professor of Faculty of Law, Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen. He is a Senior Fellow of the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Hidelberg and a Lecturer at the University of Mannheim. From 2003-2007 he worked in the UN Department of the German Foreign Office and was a member of the German delegation at the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva in 2004 and 2005 and the UN Human Rights Council in 2006. He was also a member of the German delegation at the UN General Assembly in New York in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Dr. von Bernstorff specializes in constitutional law and public law. He will teach the course “Seminar on International Human Right Law” as a visiting professor in College of Law, National Taiwan University in 2015. 

Henri de Waele is Professor of International and European Law at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands), and currently also serves as Guest Professor of European Institutional Law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium); he is moreover associated as a Visiting Professor with the University of Bonn (Germany).

Prof. de Waele’s primary research interest lies within the domain of EU institutional law, and concern in particular inter-institutional dynamics, the Union’s external relations, the effect of European norms in the national legal order, EU citizenship, and the system of judicial protection. His research also extends to the foundations and general principles of public international law.Amongst his other interests are (comparative) constitutional law and legal theory.

Baron Marc Bossuyt is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and a former judge at the Belgian Constitutional Court.

Bossuyt obtained a Dr.iur (LLM) at the University of Ghent in 1968, a Certificate of international relations at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna in 1969, and a Ph.D. in political science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in 1975. He is professor emeritus of international law at the University of Antwerp.

He was appointed to the Constitutional Court by Royal Order on 28 January 1997. From 9 October 2007 until his retirement Bossuyt was the President of the Dutch linguistic group of the Constitutional Court of Belgium. He was ennobled as a baron in the 2009 honours list. Upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 years, Bossuyt retired from the Court and became President-Emeritus.

Marc Bossuyt was a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (2000-2003, 2014-present).

Jayanth Krishnan is the Charles L. Whistler Faculty Fellow and Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He teaches courses in property, comparative law, and immigration. In 2015, he received the Law School's highest teaching honor, the Leon Wallace Teaching Award, and in 2012, he earned the Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award. He was named director of Indiana Law's Center on the Global Legal Profession in 2014.

Krishnan's academic research focuses on the legal profession, the behavior of lawyers, law-and-globalization, and legal education, with a special emphasis on how these areas intersect in India. He has written extensively on these subjects and his work has appeared in both highly reputed law reviews and peer-reviewed journals.