Professor Woo, a leading expert on the Anglo-American legal system and the Chinese socialist legal system, teaches Civil Procedure, Administrative Law and Comparative Law at Northeastern University School of Law. She is a former fellow of the Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College) and is presently an associate of the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard University. She has received many prestigious grants from a variety of organizations, including the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation, and is on the Senior Scholar Roster for the Fulbright Scholars Program. In 2015, she served as an invited visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg. In 2018, she was selected for a Fulbright Specialist award.

For a full CV, see https://law.northeastern.edu/faculty/woo/

・Vice President of International Association of Procedural Law

・Member of Supreme Court Rulemaking Advisory Committee

・Member of Ministry of Education and Science Expert Council

・Arbitrator and Special Council Member of Ministry of Land and Transportation

・Mediator of Tokyo District Court

・Auditor of Aichi Steel Corporation

・Former President of Japanese Association of the Law of Civil Procedure

・Former President of Japanese Association of the Law of Arbitration and ADR

・Former Representative of the Japanese Government for UNCITRAL

Full Professor of Procedural Law and Comparative Law at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil, where he is also the Coordinator of the Centre for German and Comparative Law Studies. Habilitation degree (Livre-Docente) from the University of São Paulo (USP). Doctorate degree from UERJ, in cooperation with the University of Munich, Germany (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität). Master's degree in Public Law from UERJ. Post-doctorate studies at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). Visiting Professor at the Universities of Passau and Kiel (Germany), Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (Japan), and Pontificia Universidad Catolica (Peru). Senior Lecturer at the Peking University (China).

Vice-President of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL).

Since October 2023, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Burkhard Hess is full professor of procedural law at the University of Vienna

He graduated in Bavaria (Second State Exam) in 1990. After his habilitation in Munich in 1996, he held a professorship in Erlangen und chairs of procedural law at the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg. From 2012 to 2023 he served as the founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Procedural Law in Luxembourg. He was invited as a Guest Professor to Taipei, to Georgetown (Washington D.C.), Paris (Sorbonne) and Beijing (Renmin University), and was a scholar-in-residence at the Centre for Transnational Law at the New York University. He is the recipient of three doctorates honoris causa awarded, respectively, by the University of Ghent, in March 2015, the University of Thessaloniki, in May 2016, and by the University of Lisbon, in October 2023. Since 2018, he is a member of the Institut de Droit International. In 2025, he delivered the General Course of Private International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law. He advises private and public clients.

https://zvr.univie.ac.at/mitarbeiterinnen/hess-burkhard/

Remo Caponi (1960), judge for outstanding achievements at the Italian Supreme Court (currently ongoing), full professor, associate, researcher of Civil Procedure (University of Florence, 1991-1998, 1998-2001, 2001-2022), Teaching of Civil Procedure (University of Siena, 1995-2000), Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (University of Bielefeld, 1989-1991), PhD in Civil Procedure (University of Bologna, 1986-1989), Enrico Redenti Prize for Civil Procedure (2022), Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI, 2016), Senior Hauser Global Research Fellow (NYU, 2014-2015), Member of the Steering Committee (ELI UNIDROIT project on European Rules of Civil Procedure, 2013-2020), Founding member of the ELI and member of its Executive Committee (2010, 2013-2017), Visiting Professor (University of Heidelberg, 2014-2015), Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Bonn), Co-founder of the joint law degree (University of Florence/University of Cologne), Reporter for the European Commission and the European Parliament, four books and about 250 papers in Italian, English and German, translations into Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian.

https://uni-koln.academia.edu/RemoCaponi

Frédérique Ferrand is Full Professor of Private Law, French, European and Comparative Civil Procedure and Enforcement Law at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France), where she is also the Director of the Institute of Comparative Law Édouard Lambert at this university. She is Honorarprofessorin at the University of Augsburg (Germany). She obtained her PhD at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (French Cassation and German Revision in civil matters) and received several awards for this research.

Her main areas of research are civil proceedings in national, European and comparative context. She is also a member of the Organizing Committee of the Commission on European Family Law (CEFL) and an expert for French family law for the CEFL. She was invited as a Guest Professor to numerous universities (Augsburg, Freiburg, Münster, Tokyo…) and was awarded a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Constanta (Romania)

She is the author of numerous books and articles in French, English and German. She acted as an expert for the drafting of the ALI-UNIDROIT Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure and for the ELI-UNIDROIT Model Rules of Civil Procedure.

Fernando Gascón Inchausti is Full Professor of Procedural Law at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), where he also studied and obtained his PhD (on provisional and protective measures in cross-border civil litigation). His main areas of interest and research are civil and criminal proceedings, both from a European and comparative perspective. He is the author of a wide number of books, chapters and articles; he has also had the opportunity to speak at conferences and colloquia, both in Spain and abroad. He has been involved in relevant international projects, including the Luxembourg Report on European Civil Procedure, the Model European Rules of Civil Procedure (ELI/UNIDROIT), LawTrain (European Commission), Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (Max-Planck Institute Luxembourg) and Best Practices for Effective Enforcement (UNIDROIT). He has served as Executive Secretary General of the Association (2016-2023) and is currently one of the editors-in-chief of the International Journal of Procedural Law.

For a full CV, see https://www.ucm.es/derechoprocesalyderechopenal/gascon-inchausti-fernando

Elena D’Alessandro is Professor of Civil Justice at the University of Turin (Italy), where she teaches and conducts research in European civil procedure and cross-border litigation. She graduated in Law from the University of Pisa (cum laude) and obtained her PhD in Law from Sapienza University of Rome, with a dissertation on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments within the European judicial area.

Her main areas of research include EU judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters, international litigation, and the harmonisation of procedural law in the European Union.

She has been a visiting scholar and visiting professor at several European and non-European institutions and has held research fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg). She is a recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship and has coordinated and participated in several EU-funded projects on judicial training and European civil justice, in cooperation with the Italian Ministry of Justice and international partners (including LAWtrain and EJNITA 2.0 and 3.0).

For a full CV, see: https://www.giurisprudenza.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?elena.dalessandro#tab-profilo