Professor Eli M Salzberger is the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law (1st in class). He wrote his doctorate at Oxford University on the economic analysis of the doctrine of separation of powers. His research and teaching areas are legal theory and philosophy, economic analysis of law, legal ethics, cyberspace and the Israeli Supreme Court. His latest book (co-authored with Niva Elkin-Koren) is Law, Economic and Cyberspace (Edward Elgar 2004) and another book with the same co-author on the Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property is forthcoming. He was member of the board of directors of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel; he is member of the public council of the Israeli Democracy Institute and of a commission for reform in performers’ rights in Israel. He was awarded various grants and fellowship, among them Rothschild, Minerva, Gif, ISF, Fulbright, ORS and British Council.

Anne van Aaken is Max Schmidheiny Foundation Tenure-Track-Professor for Law and Economics, Public, International and European Law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg and is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn. She holds a Master degree in Economics (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) and a Master degree in Law (Bavaria, Germany) as well as a doctorate in law ("Rational-Choice in der Rechtswissenschaft. Zum Stellenwert der ökonomischen Theorie im Recht", 2003, Nomos) and is admitted to the bar in Germany. Her research and teaching concentrates on several interrelated areas such as Public International Law, especially international economic law, investment law and human rights, Theories of International Law; (Behavioral) Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Deliberative Theories, Theories of Democracy; Regulation of Financial Markets, Theories of Regulation, Administrative Law, and State Liability and Responsibility in Co-operative States. She is a member of the Programmatic Steering Board of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law as well as of the Investment Committee and the Non-State Actors Committee of the International Law Association. She has taught as a guest professor at several universities, i.a. in Chile, Brazil, Ethiopia and Israel and has published widely in legal as well as economic journals.  

Dr. Avishalom Tor is a Lecturer at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and a Co-Director of the Forum for Law and Markets. He came to Haifa in 2004 after receiving his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, visiting as a Research Professor at George Mason University School of Law (2003), and advising Commissioner Harbour of the FTC on antitrust law and economics (2003-2004). At Haifa, Dr. Tor teaches in the areas of antitrust, corporate law and governance, and behavioral law and economics. His research uses a behavioral and experimental approach to study competitive behavior generally and its legal regulation in market settings more specifically. Dr. Tor's interdisciplinary work has been published in legal, decision making, psychological, and economic journals, such as the Michigan Law Review, The Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.

Professor Dr. Bouckaert is Professor at the Law school of the University of Ghent and an associate Professor at the University of Paris IX and Aix-Marseille. He is director of the Department of General Jurisprudence. He is a lecturer at the Institute for Humane Studies, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. His main fields of interests are the economic analysis and the history of property institutions, the general theory of sources of law, zoning law.

Dr. Oren Gazal-Ayal obtained Bachelor degrees in Law and in Economics from the University of Haifa, and a European Master degree in Law and Economics from the Universities of Hamburg and Ghent. In all three programs he graduated first in his class. After serving for a while as an assistant to the State Attorney and completing his Ph.D. he joined the Haifa Faculty of law in 2002. His fields of interest are criminal procedure and law and economics, while much of his research concentrates on economic aspects of the criminal justice system and on plea bargaining. His latest work was published in the Journal of Law and Economics (with Oren Bar-Gill), Cardozo Law Review and all the leading Israeli law reviews. He won the minister for public security prize for research and development and several competitive research grants including a €40,000 grant from the German Israeli Foundation (GIF) for his current comparative research on alternatives to criminal trials. Oren Gazal-Ayal was a Fulbright post-doctoral scholar and a Humphrey Faculty Fellow in the University of Michigan, School of Law, a visiting professor in Connecticut Law School and a visiting scholar in New York University law school. He taught courses in several other law schools including in Tel-Aviv University and NSU law school.

Professor Henrik Lando is Professor of law and economics at Copenhagen Business School. He is a graduate (1989) and Ph.d (1993) from Copenhagen University, Department of Economics. He was a visiting scholar at UCLA in the year 1989-90 and at MIT for 18 months in 1992-93. His research and teaching are in law and economics of contract and tort law and in general law and economics, including the theory of evidence. His current interests lie in the law and economics of contract design. He is member of the advisory board of International Association of Contract and Commercial Management, and of the advisory board of Copenhagen Consensus. He received the Zeuthen Prize for best Master thesis of the year, and has received two grants from the Danish Research Council and one from Højgårdfonden.  

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Stefan Voigt holds the chair for institutional and international economics at Philipps University Marburg. He is also director of the Marburg Center for Institutional Economics (MACIE) at the same university. He is a fellow with CESifo (Munich) and has been affiliated with the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) in Torino, Italy. Previous positions include chairs at the University of Kassel, Ruhr-University Bochum, a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and a research fellow position with the Max-Planck-Institute for Research Into Economic Systems. He spent the last academic year (2007/8) as a Senior Fellow with the newly established Institute for Advanced Study in Greifswald (Germany).
His research focuses on the economic effects of constitutions. More specifically, current research focuses on the economic effects of the judiciary. In 2002, Voigt published a (German) textbook on the New Institutional Economics, in the fall of 2003, a two-volume set on critical writings in Constitutional Political Economy appeared with the publishing house Edward Elgar. Voigt is member of a number of editorial boards including those of Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy. He is editor of the Conferences on New Political Economy.
Voigt has consulting experience with both the public and the private sector. He has worked with the World Bank, the European Commission and the OECD but also with the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT).

Wolfgang Weigel holds the Chair for The Joseph von Sonnenfels Center for the Study of Public Law and Economics at the Department of Economics University of Vienna Hohenstaufengasse 9, A-1010 Vienna e-mail: sonnenfels.economics@univie.ac.at