Nicola Chesaites is a partner of the London and Brussels offices of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. Nicola has extensive experience of competition damages litigation before UK courts, acting for both claimants and defendants before the English High Court and the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal. Nicola also has significant

Vesna Tomljenović is the first Croatian Judge at the General Court of the European Union elected in 2013 and reappointed in 2019. She is the President of the Second Chamber at the General Court of the European Union. She is a Full Professor at the Department of International and European Private Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka as well as the Head of the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the

Marko Ilešič is a Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union since 2004. He obtained the title of the Doctor of Law at the University of Ljubljana. He specialised in comparative law at the Universities of Strasbourg and Coimbra. Previously he acted as Professor of Civil, Commercial and Private International Law and the Vice-Dean (1995-2001) and Dean (2001-04) of the Faculty of Law at the University of

Danijela Vrbljanac is an Assistant Professor at the Chair of International and European Private Law, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law. She was granted scholarships for research stays at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Europa-Institute of the University of Saarland (Germany) and the University of Milan - Bicocca (Italy). She conducted research on other renowned scientific institutions such as

Vesna Crnić-Grotić, professor of International Law and the dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Croatia. She also teaches International Law of the Sea, International Law of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights as well as the Protection of Minorities in International Law. She has published a number of articles dealing with these topics and she has participated in numerous international

Professor Dr Christian Twigg-Flesner LL.B. PCHE Ph.D. (Sheffield) is Professor of International Commercial Law at the University of Warwick (since September 2017). Previously, he was Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Hull (from 2010), having worked there since 2004, at the University of Sheffield and Nottingham Trent University before then. His research interests are in the areas International, English and European Commercial, Consumer and Contract Law, with a particular focus

Maciej Szpunar is the First Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union and Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). He obtained his LL.M. from the College of Europe, Bruges. AG Szpunar is a member of the Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (‘Acquis Group') and the European Group for Private International Law. He is an associated member of the International Academy of

Martin Schmidt-Kessel (Doctorate Freiburg 2001; Habilitation Freiburg 2003) is full Professor of German and European Consumer Law, Private Law and Comparative Law and Director of the Centre for Consumer Law at the University of Bayreuth. He serves as Secretary General of the German Association of Comparative Law. He is Member of the European Law Institute and Associate Member to the International Academy of Comparative Law.

Nataša Mikuš Žigman is the State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of the Republic of Croatia from 2020. Previously she acted as the state secretary of the of the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts (2016-2020), and as the head and head deputy of the Central Finance and Contracting Agency of the European Union funded programmes and projects (2012- 2016). She was also a deputy of the state secretary of the Central

Iva Ivanišević Mostovac is a judge and the president of the Civil Procedure Department of the Municipal Court of Rijeka, since 2014. She served as a judge at the Municipal Labour Law Court of Zagreb and the Municipal Civil Law Court of Zagreb, where she was appointed in 2011. She also worked as a head of the department of the Office of the Agent of the Republic of Croatia before the European Court of Human