Ritu Dewan was the first-ever woman Director of the Department of Economics, University of Mumbai, and the founder-member of the first Centre of Gender Economics. She has over a hundred publications, including 20 books and monographs. Prof. Dewan was a member of the Feminist Economists’ Group for Engendering the 12th and 11th Five Year Plans, and is closely associated with training and capacity-building related especially to gender issues, and has conducted numerous workshops for several state governments, including Jammu & Kashmir, Goa, Tamil Nadu, etc. She is also currently President of the Indian Association of Women’s Studies. Her research focus is linked primarily to issues and concerns of marginalised groups and movements.

Babu Mathew is the former Registrar and faculty at NLSIU. He was also part of the Trade Union movement and various other social movements taking up issues of bonded labour, child labour, displacement and destruction of the livelihoods of the marginalised.

He combined the teaching and practice of Human Rights, and during the last six years, he served as Country Director of Action Aid International in India. In this capacity, he was in charge of evolving a ‘Rights’ policy and implementing a Human Rights agenda with a special focus on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in 25 states of India. He led the process of presenting a Shadow Report focusing on the excluded communities of India before the relevant UN Committee in Geneva.

Professor B.T. Kaul was the former Chairman of the Delhi Judicial Academy and has served as a Professor at the University of Delhi. With a 34-year teaching-intensive career, he specialises in Criminal Law, Labour Law, Intellectual Property Laws and Interpretation of Statutes. He has an LL.B. and LL.M. from Delhi University, an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and a PhD from Delhi University. He received a UGC Research Fellowship for 6 months in 2007 and is involved with the Indian Law Institute and the Indian Society of International Law.

Prof. (Dr) Ranbir Singh is the former and founder Vice-Chancellor of National Law University, Delhi, which was established by the Delhi Government in 2008. Currently, he is pro-Vice Chancellor of IILM University. In just a short span of 12 years, he has steered NLU, Delhi, which has been ranked as the 2nd best law school in India in– the 2018 rankings. It’s the acknowledgement of his administrative and leadership abilities that NLU, Delhi, is now recognised not only in India but also at the international level.

With over two decades of experience in heading the law school, he carries the aura of a visionary who, as an outstanding statesman and academician, has shown immense commitment and contribution towards changing the legal education landscape of the country. Prior to his stint in NLU, Delhi, he was the founder and Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR, University of Law, established by the Andhra Pradesh Government and had been at its helm since its inception in 1998. Prof. Singh’s acumen took NALSAR to great heights as a well-known premier institution for legal education and research in the country. He has been a Vice-Chancellor for over 20 years now.

Ruth Dukes is a professor of labour law. She joined the University of Glasgow in 2005 and holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh, the Humboldt University in Berlin, and the London School of Economics.

Professor Dukes is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an emeritus member of the Young Academy of Scotland. She is also a member of the Adapt International Scientific Committee, the Executive Committee of the Institute of Employment Rights, the Project Board of the Jimmy Reid Foundation, and the Editorial Board of the Spanish Labour Law and Employment Relations Journal. In 2011/12, she was an Early Career Fellow of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. In 2020, she visited the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and served on the International Scientific Committee of the Labour Law Research Network. In 2022, she was the Innis Christie Visiting Professor at Dalhousie University in Canada.

Alan joined the Bristol Law School in 2017 as a Professor of Labour Law. Previously, he was a Professor of Labour Law at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. He has a broad teaching and research interest in the general fields of labour, employment and work laws. He is interested in exploring these areas from philosophical, doctrinal and comparative perspectives. His recent work has used political philosophy to explore problems in the regulation of work. He is also interested in the worker-protective aspects of common law reasoning. His current research projects are examining freedom of association, common law fundamental rights, the role of criminalisation in work relations, and the future of the social democratic constitution.

​Professor Grzebyk holds the position of Vice Dean for Legal Research and International Collaboration at the Faculty of Law University of Warsaw. He graduated from the British Law Centre University of Cambridge (2006) and the University of Warsaw MA (2006). Defended his PhD (2010) & habilitation in law at the University of Warsaw (2020). In the period 2010-2014, he acted as an assistant of the Justice in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland and since 2018 he has been heading the Polish Research Centre for Law and Economy of China (華沙大學中國法律與經濟波蘭研究中心) and the University of Warsaw School of Law and Economy of China (華沙大學中國法律與經濟學院).
Piotr Grzebyk is the author of 59 publications, including 3 books (1 as a co-author) and the editor of 5 monographs published in English and Chinese. Presenter at 51 conferences (32 international conferences). In 2016-2021 successfully submitted applications for 10 grants (financed by the National Agency for Academic Exchange, Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Centre) with a total budget of 1 288 655 EUR. In 2021, he received from the Minister of Education and Science the 1st-degree individual award for significant organizational achievements in academia (only three awards in this category).
Visiting professor in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sofia and Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Chongqing. In 2014 awarded in the Mentoring program of the Foundation for Polish Science (Mentor – prof. Teun Jaspers University of Amsterdam). Research fellow at the Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in der Europäischen Union in Trier (2018 – prof. Monika Schlachter as supervisor).
In 2021-2023 member of the Steering Committee of the Labour Law Research Network and co-host of the Labour Law Research Network 6 Conference in 2023. Since 2014 an Academic Guardian of the Warsaw-Beijing Forum, a students’ project co-organized by the University of Warsaw and China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. In 2015-2017 Board Member of the European University Centre at Peking University.
His ongoing research focuses on platform work (平台用工勞動) with special interest in algorithmic management (算法管理).