Global Constitutionalism from European and East Asian Perspectives

Takao Suami is a Professor at Waseda University Law School, Tokyo, Japan. He studied law at the University of Tokyo (LL.B.), Cornell Law School (LL.M.) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (LL.M.). He was a visiting professor of Duke University Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He served as the President of the European Union Studies Association – Japan, and is currently a member of the board of trustees of the Japanese Society of International Law. His teaching and research interests lie in EU law, international economic law, and judicial policy making in Japan.

Anne Peters is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg, a Professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, and Basel, and a William C. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan. She has been a member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) in respect of Germany (2011–15) and served as the President of the European Society of International Law (2010–12). Her current research interests relate to public international law including its history, global animal law, global governance and global constitutionalism.

Dimitri Vanoverbeke is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Director of the Department of East Asian and Arabic Studies. He lectures in Japanese Studies (law, politics and society) and also lectures in the Europe-Asia: Interactions and Comparisons module of the Master of Arts in European Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (East Asian Politics). His current research interests relate to law and society and to the political dynamics in Japan and in Southeast Asia. Aside from publishing on the past and present of the legal system in Japan, he also publishes on the relationship between Japan and the EU.

Mattias Kumm is the Inge Rennert Professor of Law at New York University Law School as well as Professor for 'Rule of Law in the Age of Globalisation' at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Managing Director of the Center of Global Constitutionalism at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. His research focuses on basic issues and contemporary challenges in Global, European and Comparative Public Law and Legal Philosophy. He was a Professor at Harvard University, Yale University, Connecticut, and the European University Institute, Florence and is a Co-Founder and Co-Editor in Chief of Global Constitutionalism.