Anne Peters was born on November 15, 1964. After studying law in Würzburg, Lausanne and Freiburg im Breisgau, which she completed with the first and second state exams, she received her doctorate in 1994. This was followed by a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Harvard Law School (1994-1995). In 2000, Anne Peters habilitated at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. Since then, Prof. Dr. Peters was guest professor at the Sciences Po (2009), Université Panthéon-Assas (2014), Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (2015), at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2016), and at the Peking University Law School (2014 and 2016). From 2010-2012 she was president of the European Society of International Law. Prof. Dr. Peters is member of the international legal advisory board of the Federal Foreign Office. She is also a managing director and scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, titular professor at the University of Basel (since 2013) and honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg (since 2014) and the Free University of Berlin (since 2015). Anne Peters' research interests currently include constitutionalization and the history of international law, global governance, the status of individual persons in international law, scientific theory of international law, and global animal law.

Prof. Dr. Bernd Ladwig was born in Cologne in 1966. After studying political science at the Free University of Berlin, he worked as a research assistant at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Dr. Davina Bruhn studied law at the University of Hamburg. After the first and second state law exams, she worked as a lawyer at the animal rights organization PETA Deutschland e.V.