Francesco Francioni is Emeritus Professor of International Law and Human Rights and Co-Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He was the chairman of the World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO and the Italian delegate to many diplomatic conferences on the protection of cultural property. He has written and edited many books, including War by Contract (with Natalino Ronzitti, OUP, 2011) and The 1972 World Heritage Convention: A Commentary (OUP, 2008).
James Gordley holds the W.R. Irby Chair of Law at Tulane University. He is the author of, inter alia, Foundations of Private Law (OUP, 2006).