J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair at the New York University (NYU) School of Law. He serves as Chairman of the NYU Global Law School Program and is Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice. He is also an Honorary Professor at London University and the University of Copenhagen. Prior to his NYU appointment he was the Manley Hudson Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a WTO and NAFTA Panel Member. He is a founding editor of the European Journal of International Law, of the European Law Journal and of the World Trade Review. He writes in the fields of International Law, the Law of the European Union, and Comparative Constitutional Law. His recent publications include: Un’Europa Cristiana: Un saggio esplorativo, (BUR Saggi, Milano, 2003 – translations into Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Slovenian, Hungarian); The European Court of Justice (OUP 2001 with G. de Burca); The EU, the WTO and the NAFTA (OUP, 2000), The Constitution of Europe (CUP, 1998–-translated into Spanish, Italian, Slovenian, Serbian, Japanese, Greek, Chinese), and a Novella, Der Fall Steinmann (Piper, 2000).

Kieran St C. Bradley is Head of the Legislation Unit of the European Parliament's Legal Service. He has previously served as a référendaire at the European Court of Justice, and as an administrator on the secretariat of the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs. In Spring 2000, he was the first 'Distinguished Lecturer on European Law' at Harvard Law School, and he has also taught courses on EC law at various other universities and higher level educational institutes, such as the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the East-West Forum (Academy of European Law, Fiesole), the College of Europe (Natolin Campus, Warsaw). He has also taught at the National University of Singapore, at the University of Melbourne, Australia and since 2005 at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. In 2003-2004, he served on both groups of legal experts advising on the drafting of the Constitution for Europe. He has published extensively in a number of areas of EC law, particularly institutional law.

Miguel Poiares Maduro is Advocate General at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. He is a Professor of European and International Law at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He received his doctorate from the European University Institute (EUI, Florence) where he was also a Research Assistant and Fellow. He is also an external Professor at the Instituto Ortega y Gasset (Madrid), the London School of Economics and the Institute of European Studies of Macao (China). He has also taught at the College of Europe (Natolin), at the National University of Singapore, at the University of Melbourne, Australia and since 2005 at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He has been Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at Harvard Law School. He is Co-director of the Academy of International Trade Law (Macao). He co-edited with Joseph Weiler the “Special Book Review Issue” of the European Law Journal. He is currently co-editor with Francis Snyder of the Hart Publishers Series Studies in European Law and Integration. He was the first winner of the Rowe and Maw Prize and winner of the Prize Obiettivo Europa (for the best PhD thesis at the EUI). He is the author of We the Court--The European Court of Justice and the European Economic Constitution (Hart Publishing, 1997).

Imola Streho, the Coordinator of the Total Law™ Team, is référendaire in the cabinet of the Estonian Judge and previously worked in the cabinet of the French Advocate General at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. She is teaching seminars on the European Judicial System and the Law of the International Market at University of Paris II (Assas - Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales). She has also taught at the College of Europe (Natolin), at Science Po Paris, at the National University of Singapore, at the University of Melbourne, Australia and since 2005 at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. From 2000 to 2002, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law where she was the Executive Director of its Jean Monnet Center. She holds a diploma from the College of Europe. She writes in the field of EU law. Her recent publications include: “Fundamental Principles vs. Fundamental Rights, comment on the ECJ decisions Schmidberger, C-112/00” (2003-2004) 1, and Omega, C-36/02” (2003-2004) 4, also “on the ECJ judgment Bidar, C-209/03” (2005) 2, RAE / Law & European Affairs, and “Regional Organizations’ Judicial System Compared: Is the European Model Transposable and Should It Be?” (2004) 27 Review of Asian Pacific Studies.