Goranka Barać – Ručević is a judge at the Civil Law Department of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia and a head of the Unit for Indexing and Publishing of Case Law of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia. She is a long-term mentor to legal secretaries and legal trainees. As an educator at the Judicial Academy, she has both authored and co-authored a number of educational materials. She has been a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law and

Dr. Fiesinger received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Munich. He is author of the book “Ballhausplatz-Diplomatie 1945-1949.” From 2004 until 2012 he was visiting professor at the Andrassy University in Budapest. Occasionally he gives lectures on Euroregions, cross-border police cooperation and political education. Dr. Fiesinger is member of IDM, the Austrian Institute in Vienna for the Danube Region and

Elise Poillot is full professor of Droit Civil in the Faculty of Law, Economy and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. She has been invited Professor at the University of Georgia (USA), Brescia and Milan (Italy) and has been a member of the Italian national selection committee for full and associate professors of private law (ASN) and of the universities study programmes evaluation committee in Belgium and Québec.

Eleni Kaprou is a Lecturer in Commercial Law in Brunel University since 2018. Prior to that she was a postdoctoral researcher in Cardiff University. Eleni finished her PhD in Nottingham University where she was awarded the 2018 DJ Harris award for the best thesis in law. Eleni’s interests lay in private law and in particular European consumer law.

Dr. Mateja Đurović is a Reader in Contract and Commercial Law and Deputy Director of the Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law and Society at King’s College London. Previous to this, he was an Assistant Professor (2015‐2017) at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Mateja Đurovic holds a PhD and LLM degrees from the European University Institute, Italy

Jürgen Basedow is an emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law at Hamburg and a professor of law at the University of Hamburg. Before being appointed to the Institute in 1997 he served as a professor of law at the University of Augsburg and at the Free University of Berlin. He has been teaching as a visiting professor in many universities across the globe. He is a member of the Institut

Jacolien Barnard is a professor at the Department of Mercantile Law, Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is also an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a NRF-rated researcher, holding a C2 rating. She is a member of the International Association of Consumer Law (IACL) and head of the conference committee for the University of Pretoria International Consumer Law Conference (UPICLC) held bi-annually

Aleksandra Markić Boban graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb in English and German Language and Literature (MA), and holds a MScs in European Studies. Before joining the Hanns Seidel Foundation she worked for the ECMM and the EUAM as well as for the German Ambassy in Zagreb. In her capacity as the Head of Project Office in Zagreb she was responsible for initiating, organizing and evaluating more than

Richard M. Alderman is a Professor Emeritus and Director of the Center for Consumer Law at the University of Houston Law Center, where he taught since 1973. Alderman is the author of more than 20 books and numerous articles. His most recent publications include “Consumer Credit and the Law,” and “Consumer Protection and the Law,” published by Thomson/West (co-authored with Dee Pridgen);

Ivana Kunda is a Full Professor and the Head of the International and European Private Law Department at the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka and a Vice-Dean for Research. She was awarded the University of Rijeka Foundation Award for 2008 and the University of Rijeka Faculty of Law Award for Research Excellence for 2019. She received grants including the Fulbright Research Fellow scholarship in 2010.