Judith van Erp is Professor of Public Institutions, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and Designated Research Chair in Utrecht University's strategic interdisciplinary theme of Institutions for Open Societies. Michael Faure is Academic Director of the Maastricht European Institute for Transnational Legal Research and Professor of Comparative and International Environmental Law at Maastricht University. He is also Academic Director of the Ius Commune Research School and half-time Professor of Comparative Private Law and Economics at the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics of the Erasmus University. André Nollkaemper is Dean and Professor of Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam. He is also external Legal Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Member of the Institut de Droit International Law, former President of the European Society of International Law and Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Niels Philipsen is Professor of Shifts in Private and Public Regulation at the Erasmus School of Law of Erasmus University Rotterdam and Vice-Director of the METRO research institute and Associate Professor in Law and Economics at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University. Since November 2017 Philipsen is also Adjunct Professor of the School of Law and Economics at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing, China.