Jeff Bachman is a Senior Professorial Lecturer at the American University School of International Service. He is the author of The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect (Rutgers University Press, 2022) and The United States and Genocide: (Re)Defini]ng the Relationship (Routledge, 2018), and the editor of Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations (Routledge, 2019) and the forthcoming volume, Genocide: The Path Ahead (Rutgers University Press, anticipated 2023).

Giovanni Batz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was a 2020-2022 President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis and a 2018-2019 Anne Ray Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in  Santa Fe, New Mexico. Batz’s publications have focused on human and indigenous rights, extractivist industries, Guatemalan history, and U.S. foreign policy in Central America. He has a forthcoming book entitled, La Cuarta Invasión: Historias y resistencia del Pueblo Ixil, y su lucha contra la Hidroeléctrica Palo Viejo en Cotzal, Quiché, Guatemala, which will be published by the Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences in Guatemala  (AVANSCO). 

Yonah Diamond is an international human rights lawyer at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He has worked with a variety of human rights organizations including Oxfam America, the Innocence Project, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Diamond has published widely on human rights and international justice including in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Project Syndicate, Foreign Policy, Globe and Mail, Just Security, Opinio Juris, OpenCanada, The Hill, and The Diplomat, among others.

Chianaraekpere is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle. She holds an LLB degree from the University of Calabar, Nigeria; a BL degree from the Nigerian Law School; an LLM degree in International Crime and Justice from the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and the University of Torino. Chianaraekpere Ike has experience in International Criminal Justice and Human Rights, having worked as a law clerk in the Pre-Trail Chambers at the International Criminal Court and having several years of experience as a defense attorney and a human rights activist. Chianaraekpere is a member of the Collaborative Research Network (CRN 53) and the International Research Collaborative (IRC 3) of the Law and Society Association and has presented papers at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association. She is currently a Fellow, of the Comparative Law and Society Studies (CLASS) Center of the University of Washington, Seattle. 

Nataša Nedeski is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam. Her work has focused on general international law, and shared responsibility in international law in particular. She has co-authored the Guiding Principles on Shared Responsibility in International Law, which seeks to provide guidance to judges, practitioners, and academics when confronted with legal questions of shared responsibility of states and/or international organizations, for instance in relation to climate change or joint military operations. She has recently finalized her first monograph entitled ‘Shared Obligations in International Law’, published by Cambridge University Press. Her research interests include the international law of obligations, the law of international responsibility, international organizations law, human rights law, international environmental law and (strategic) litigation before domestic and international courts.

John Packer is Professor of International Conflict Resolution and Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. For over two years, Packer and Diamond have been collaborating on developing and disseminating a novel approach to analyzing State breaches of the Genocide Convention. Diamond served as principal author and Prof. Packer as principal advisor for the independent expert reports, An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent (2022) and An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention (2021). Together, the authors have presented their findings before government officials, conferences, an independent people's tribunal, and international media, including CNN and CBC, among others.

Josephine Ndagire is a Lecturer at the School of Law, Makerere University.  She was previously Head of Training at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy (Germany) and Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law (Germany). She conceptualized and co-authored the ‘International Guiding Principles and Recommendations on Effective Cooperation during Prosecution of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence’,  and has consulted for UN Women and other entities on gender, transitional justice, and human rights.  She is an Expert Member of the African Commission on Human Rights Committee on Prevention of Torture in Africa. Dr. Ndagire holds a doctorate from Emory University, a Master of Laws from the University of  Notre Dame, and a law degree from Makerere University.

Max Pensky is Co-Director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP) at Binghamton University, the State University of New York, where he is also Professor of Philosophy. His recent scholarship has focused on the intersection between post-atrocity transitional justice and international criminal law, in particular on controversies surrounding domestic amnesties for international crimes; the role of retributivism in international criminal law; and alternative approaches to legal and intersubjective accountability in the aftermath of mass atrocities. Current research projects include a comparative study of policies for the physical security of displaced persons and the weaponization of social media platforms in the context of democratically backsliding states. As a philosopher, Pensky publishes frequently on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, particularly on the writings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Jurgen Habermas, as well as topics in contemporary German political culture.

Annick Pijnenburg is Assistant Professor of International and European Law at Radboud University Nijmegen (in the Netherlands). She has an interdisciplinary background, combining social sciences and law, with a strong focus on international human rights law. Her PhD thesis, called At the Frontiers of State Responsibility: Socio-economic Rights and Cooperation on Migration, was published with Intersentia in 2021. It examines the (shared) responsibility of states for human rights violations in the context of migration deals. Her current research focuses on accountability for human rights violations in complex situations, such as the Srebrenica genocide, the downing of flight MH17, and multilateral migration control policies.