Başak Ertür teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London, in the Department of Visual Cultures. She is the author of Spectacles and Spectres: A Performative Theory of Political Trials (2023).

Peter Goodrich is a professor of law at Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University), and a visiting professor in the Division of Social Science, New York University Abu Dhabi. His most recent excursus is Vision in Decision (2023).

Piyel Haldar is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Law, Birkbeck College. He has published on the architecture of court buildings and on the wild energies of law as they flow through ley lines embedded in the natural landscape. He is currently writing a piece on the philosophical and theatrical absurdities of legal transmission as well as a monograph on the ecology of the common law.

Lorna Hutson teaches at Oxford and writes books on literature and law, including The Invention of Suspicion (2007), The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature 1500–1700 (2017), and England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland (2023), which won the Saltire Prize for best research book, 2025.

Anna Jayne Kimmel is an assistant professor of dance and affiliate faculty at the Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service at George Washington University. She is an associate editor at Performance Research and a board member of Performance Studies international. Her scholarship appears in Dance Research Journal, Performance Research, Lateral, The Drama Review, and The Brooklyn Rail, as well as various edited volumes.

Jisha Menon is the Robert G. Freeman Professor of International Studies at Stanford University, where she is a professor of theater and performance studies, and (by courtesy) of comparative literature and serves as the Fisher Family Director of Stanford Global Studies. She is the author of Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India (2021) and The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan and the Memory of Partition (2013).

Bernadette Meyler is the Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law at Stanford University. She is the author of Theaters of Pardoning and a coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities.

Derek Miller is a professor of English at Harvard University, where he teaches courses in theater history and dramatic literature. His first monograph is Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770–1911 (2018). Visit visualizingbroadway.com for more information.

Subha Mukherji is a professor of early modern literature and culture at the University of Cambridge. She is the series editor of Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature and most recently, with Dunstan Roberts, she edited Literature and the Legal Imaginary: Knowing Justice.

Julie Stone Peters is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia and affiliated faculty at Columbia Law School. Her most recent book is Staging Witchcraft before the Law (2024). A scholar of law and media history, she is currently writing about contemporary audiovisual legal cultures.

Simon Stern is a professor of law and English at the University of Toronto. He has published extensively on copyright, obscenity, search and seizure, legal fictions, and the history of legal methods. He is completing a study of Sherlock Holmes and the law.

Jesús R. Velasco is the Augustus R. Street Professor of Spanish and Portugese at Yale University. He has a PhD in philology from the University of Salamanca (1995) and a PhD in law from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (2025). He has published, most recently, Microliteratures: The Production of the Margin in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Books (2025), and Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages (2020). He is interested in the production of legal codes and legal thinking in the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages.

Marco Wan is a professor of law and the director of the Programme in Law and Literary Studies at the University of Hong Kong. He is the first legal scholar to be elected to the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. He serves as the managing editor of Law & Literature.