Kirk W. Junker is a University Professor of Law, Director of the Environmental Law Center, Board Chair of the International Master of Environmental Science Program, and Principal Investigator at the Global South Studies Centre at the University of Cologne, Germany. He is the editor of Environmental Law Across Cultures: Comparisons for Legal Practice (Routledge, 2020).

Paolo Davide Farah is a tenured Associate Professor in the Eberly College of Arts & Sciences, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics at West Virginia University, U.S.A. He is Founder, President, and Director of gLAWcal-Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, U.K. He is the editor of China's Influence of Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law (Routledge, 2016).