Horatia Muir Watt is Professor at Sciences-Po Paris, where she is Co-Director of the programme 'Global Governance Studies' within the Master's Degree in Economic Law. She gained a PhD in private international law from the University of Panthéon-Assas Paris in 1985. She is a tenured Professor in private international law and in comparative law. She taught at the University of Tours, at the University of Paris XI, and at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne between 1996 and 2009 and was appointed to Sciences Po in 2009. She is a Member of the Institute of International Law and Editor-in-chief of the Revue critique de droit international privé (the leading French-language journal on private international law) and a member of the publication committees of numerous other legal journals. She founded the PILAGG (private international law and global governance group), now run with the LSE. Diego P. Fernández Arroyo has been professor at the School of Law of Sciences Po in Paris since 2010, and a Global Professor of New York University since 2013. He teaches subjects related to international dispute resolution, arbitration and conflict of laws. At Sciences Po he is co-director of the Global Governance Studies Program and co-director of the Research Project Private International Law as Global Governance (PILAGG). Professor Fernández Arroyo is a member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, a former President of the American Association of Private International Law, and a member of a number of academic institutions including the International Academy of Comparative Law, the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, the International Law Association, and the International Arbitration Institute.