Elliott Ash is Assistant Professor of Law, Economics, and Data Science at ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics, Switzerland. Prior to joining ETH, Elliott was Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Warwick, and before that a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University’s Center for the study of Democratic Politics. He received a Ph.D. in economics and J.D. from Columbia University, a B.A. in economics, government, and philosophy from University of Texas at Austin, and an LL.M. in international criminal law from University of Amsterdam.

Elliott's research and teaching focus on empirical analysis of the law and legal system using techniques from applied microeconometrics, natural language processing, and machine learning. His research has been published in the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Politics, theGeorgetown Law Journal, and the Review of Law & Economics. Elliott’s research has earned grant funding from the National Science Foundation, the Turing Institute, and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Samantha has a PhD in Law (Universiteit Antwerpen) and in Economics (Universiteit Hasselt). She received a postdoctoral fellowship of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) in 2016 and is assistant professor (Hasselt University) since 2017. Samantha is head of the research line “Litigation and Crime” in the research group Policy Management.

Samantha performs multidisciplinary research mostly in topics related to (civil and criminal) litigation and crime. Her fields of interest are Law and Economics, Economics of Crime, Economics of Litigation and Judge Behavior. Among other things, she has worked on projects for Belgian courts and prosecutor’s offices and the Belgian Ministry of Justice.

Nuno Garoupa is Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development & Faculty Director of Graduate Studies. Previously, he taught at Texas A&M University School of Law (2015-2018), University of Illinois College of Law (2007-2015), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (2001-2007) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (1998-2001). He also served as President of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Lisbon, Portugal (2014-2016). Professor Garoupa received his PhD in Economics from the University of York (UK), also holds an LLM from the University of London (UK).

He has a long established research interest in the economics of law and legal institutions, empirical legal studies and comparative judicial politics. He has served as President of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (2017-2021), Vice-President of the European Association of Law and Economics (2004-2007), Member of the Boards of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (2006-2009) and of the Latin America and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (2009-2011), and co-editor of the Review of Law and Economics (2004-2010) and of the International Review of Law and Economics (2012-2020). He has been awarded the Spanish Julián Marías Research Prize (2010) and the NSF Award in Law and Social Science (2017) for a conference project on “Facilitating Empirical Studies of Judicial Behavior on Constitutional Courts from a Comparative Perspective.”

Alessandro Melcarne is Associate Professor of Economics at Paris Nanterre University. Since 2017, he has served as Visiting Professor at Piemonte Orientale University, in Alessandria. He has worked as consultant for the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Colombia since 2017. Between 2015 and 2016, he was appointed Research Fellow of Applied Economics at DiGSPES - Piemonte Orientale University. Between 2015 and 2016, he served as a Research Fellow at the “Luigi Einaudi” Research and Documentation Centre of Turin, and at Waseda University in Tokyo.

He is a member of European Society of Law & Economics, European Public Choice Society, European Society of Comparative Economics, Italian Society of Law & Economics, Italian Economists Society, French Society of Law & Economics, Public Choice Society, Society for Empirical Legal Studies. He has received several awards and grants and is the author of publications in scientific journals and books. He has attented several conferences on Law and Economics. In 2015, he earned a PhD in Economics from Turin University.

Juan S. Mora- Sanguinetti is a Senior Economist at the Bank of Spain (Eurosystem). He has worked as an economist at the Economics Department of the OECD (Paris) and as a consultant at Deloitte & Touche. He received a Phd in Economic History and Institutions from Universidad Carlos III of Madrid with the highest honours and with a European doctoral mention. Previously, Mr. Mora-Sanguinetti had obtained a Law Degree and an Economics Degree from Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, both with best academic record awards. He also holds a Masters Degree of Research in Economics from the European University Institute. His areas of research and teaching focus on the Economic Analysis of Law and the impact of institutions on economic development, having published various articles in several JCR journals.

Kristen Renberg is a JD Candidate at Duke University School of Law (class of 2022). She received a PhD in Political Science from Duke University in July 2020. Her substantive research focuses on courts as political and legal institutions. Her methodological research focuses on network studies and text-as-data. Her recent research projects examine political and legal influences surrounding judicial decision-making in the context of administrative law using a large original corpus of published legal opinions by the Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals.

Rok Spruk is Assitant Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana. He received his PhD in Quantitative Economic History at Utrecht University in 2016. His research focuses on the political economy of institutions and their effect on long-run economic and social development. The methodological focus of his research encompassed advanced methods of causal inference with large datasets. Some of his recent research examines the impact of joining the United States of America on long-run development, the effect of democracy and technocracy on economic growth, the long-term effects of factious politics among several others. His article on Institutional Transformation and the Origins of World Income Distribution has been included into the Elgar series of the most influential works focusing on the relationship between political and economic institutions and economic development. He is a member of Econometric Society, American Economic Association, Austrian Society for New Institutional Economics and Society for Empirical Legal Studies.