Kenneth Anderson is a law professor at Washington College of Law, American University, a research fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a blogger. Anderson was the legal editor of Crimes of War, a book about international humanitarian law (W.W. Norton, 1999). He is a member of the International Council of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation.

Philippe Sands is a Professor of Law at University College London, where he teaches public international law, the settlement of international disputes, and environmental and natural resources law.

Harold Hongju Koh (born December 8, 1954, Boston, MA, United States) is a Korean-American lawyer, legal scholar, former U.S. State Department official, and current Dean of the Yale Law School (since July 1, 2004). His name has been mentioned as a possible U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee in the event of a Democratic Presidential victory in 2008. Koh became Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor on November 13, 1998.

Dr. Francis Anthony Boyle, is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. He also received a Ph. D. in political science from Harvard University. Between 1988 and 1992 Boyle was a member of the board of Amnesty International USA.

John Bassett Moore (December 3, 1860 - November 12, 1947) was an American authority on international law who was a member of the Hague Tribunal and the first US judge to serve on the Permanent Court of International Justice (the "World Court"). He was born in Smyrna, Delaware, graduated at the University of Virginia in 1880, and was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. From 1885 to 1886 he was a law clerk at the Department of State, then an Assistant Secretary of State.

James Brown Scott, J.U.D. was an American authority on international law. Scott was born at Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. He was educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1890; A.M., 1891). As Parker fellow of Harvard he traveled in Europe and studied in Berlin, Heidelberg (J.U.D.), and Paris. Following his return to the United States, he practiced law at Los Angeles, Cal. from 1894 to 1899. He founded the law school at the University of Southern California, and was its dean, …

John Dugard (born in 1936 in Fort Beaufort ) is a South African professor of international law . He has served as Judge ad hoc on the International Court of Justice and as a Special Rapporteur for both the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the International Law Commission . His main academic specializations are in Roman-Dutch law , public international law , jurisprudence , human rights , criminal procedure and international criminal law .

Rosalyn Higgins, Lady Higgins, DBE, QC (b. in London, 1937) is the President of the International Court of Justice. Higgins was the first female judge to be appointed to the ICJ, and was elected President in 2006.

Alan Vaughan Lowe is Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, since 1999. Member of the English Bar. Associé de l'Institut de droit international. He formerly taught at the universities of Cambridge, where he was Reader in International Law and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Manchester, and Cardiff. His writings include "The Law of the Sea", …

Thomas Buergenthal (born 11 May 1934 in Lubochna, Czechoslovakia, today Slovakia) is a judge on the International Court of Justice.

Bruno Simma (born March 29 1941), German jurist, is currently a Judge on the International Court of Justice, having been appointed to that post in 2003. Prior to joining the Court, he had served on the United Nations International Law Commission since 1996. From 1995 to 1997, he served as Dean of the University of Munich Faculty of Law. Prior to returning to his native Germany, he served as a Lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands, …

Ian Brownlie, CBE, QC, FBA, is a British jurist, specialising in international law. He was called to the Bar in 1958 (Gray's Inn). During his academic career he taught at the University of Leeds, Nottingham University, and Wadham College, Oxford. He was a professor of international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science between 1976 and 1980.

Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (16 August 1897, Zolkiew, Poland - 8 May 1960) was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1954 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1955 to 1960. In the words of former ICJ President Stephen M. Schwebel, Judge Sir Hersch Lauterpacht's "attainments are unsurpassed by any international lawyer of this century [...] he taught and wrote with unmatched distinction" [S.M. Schwebel, …

Stephen M. Schwebel (born March 10, 1929) is an American jurist and expert on international law. He is best known for delivering dissenting opinions in the case of "Nicaragua v. United States" and in the pair of Libya v. United Kingdom and Libya v. United States Lockerbie (Preliminary Objections) cases, which were discontinued in 2003. Judge Schwebel was born in New York City.

David Mark Smolin is a professor of law at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also the director for The Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics and faculty advisor for Cumberland's Law, Science and Technology Society. Smolin is the author of over 35 articles, primarily published as law review articles, though some of his works have appeared in journals such as "First Things". His brother is theoretical physicist Lee Smolin.

Bruce Fein is a lawyer in the United States who specializes in constitutional and international law. Under President Ronald Reagan, Fein served as an associate deputy attorney general from 1981 to 1982 and as general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission. Notable published writings by Fein include articles advocating the impeachment of former U.S. president Bill Clinton and the current U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney.

Professor B.S. Chimni is an internationally renowned legal scholar. His areas of expertise include international law, international trade law and international refugee law. Currently he is Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He had a three year stint as Vice Chancellor of the W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences. He has been a Visiting Professor at the International Center for Comparative Law and Politics, Tokyo University, …

Frank Attar graduated from Cambridge University (history and law) and from Harvard Law School. He is a professor and an attorney. He specializes in contemporary international relations and public international law.

H. E. Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga was a Uruguayan jurist. Professor of Public International Law in the Universidad de la República (National University) School of Law and in the Law School of the Catholic University of Uruguay (Universidad Católica del Uruguay).

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah or Muhammad Hameedullah "Ph.D., D. Litt., Hilal-e-Imtiaz", (February 09, 1908 to December 17, 2002) belonged to a family of scholars, jurists, writers and sufis. He was a world-renowned scholar of Islam and International Law from Pakistan who was known for contributions to the research of the history of Hadith, translations of the Qur'an, …

Manfred H. Lachs (April 21 1914 Stanislev/Ivano-Frankivs'k, Austrian Galicia - January 14 1993) was a Polish diplomat and jurist who greatly influenced in the development of international law after World War II.

Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans (born July 6, 1933) is a Dutch jurist, CDA politician and diplomat. He served as a Judge on the International Court of Justice from 1997 until 2006. He was born in Heemstede, Netherlands. He earned his bachelor's and law degrees from the Free University of Amsterdam. Following graduation, he joined the University's faculty as Professor of Public International Law and European Law, serving from 1965 to 1973.

Mountague Bernard (January 28, 1820 - 1882), English international lawyer, the third son of Charles Bernard of Jamaica, the descendant of a Huguenot family, was born at Tibberton Court, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Sherborne School, and Trinity College, Oxford. Graduating BA in 1842, he took his BCL, was elected Vinerian scholar and fellow, and having read in chambers with Roundell Palmer (afterwards Lord Selborne), was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1846.

Gustave Henri Ange Hippolyte Rolin-Jaequemyns (Ghent, January 31 1835 - Brussels, january 9, 1902) was a Belgian solicitor, diplomat and Minister of the Interior (1878-1884) as a member of the Unitarian Liberal Party. Together with the Swiss jurist Gustave Moynier, he founded the Institut de Droit International and became its first "Honorary President". Even though his personal convictions were deeply religious, …

Evhen Tsybulenko (born 21 October 1972 in Simferopol, Ukraine) is a Professor (2005) and Chair of International and Comparative Law at International University Audentes (Tallinn, Estonia). Prof. Evhen Tsybulenko graduated from Kiev National University (LL.M. - 1996, Ph.D. in International Law 2000). He has conducted postdoctoral research at the International Human Rights Law Institute of De Paul University in Chicago (2002), …

Nagendra Singh (Rajasthan, March 1914 - The Hague, 11 December 1988) was president of the International Court of Justice. Singh served on the United Nations International Law Commission from 1967 to 1972. He joined the International Court of Justice in 1973 and was its presiding judge between February 1985 and February 1988. He was born in the Rajput Sisodia Royal family of Dungarpur, …

James Russell Soley (1 October 1850 - 11 September 1911) was a lawyer and historian in the United States. Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Soley graduated from Harvard College in 1870. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Ethics and English at the United States Naval Academy on 1 October 1871. Only two years later, he became Head of the Department of English Studies, History, and Law. On 9 June 1882, Soley was assigned to the Bureau of Navigation.

Jules Basdevant was a French law professor. He was born in Anost, a village in the Parc Naturel Régional du Morvan about halfway between Paris and Lyon in eastern France. After obtaining his Ph.D. in law, he began teaching at the law faculty in Paris, in February 1903, as an "agrégé". He was later transferred to the law faculty of Rennes where he lectured from 1903 to 1907. He then went to Grenoble, where he was a professor until 1918, when he went back to Paris.

Green Haywood Hackworth (1883 - 1973), a Kentucky native and graduate of the Valparaiso University School of Law, is perhaps best known as the first U.S. judge of the International Court of Justice. He sat on the Court from 1946 to 1961 and also served as its president from 1955 to 1958. Hackworth was also appointed as a Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State, commencing on July 1, 1931 and ending March 1, 1946.

Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings (19 October 1913-4 August 2004) was a British jurist. He served as a British judge in the International Court of Justice from 1982. He also served as the President of the ICJ between 1991 and 1994. He was born in Yorkshire, where his father had a small manufacturing firm and his mother was a mill weaver. He was educated at the village school at Idle, West Riding, and Belle Vue Secondary School.

George Grafton Wilson (born in Plainfield, Connecticut on 29 March 1863 - died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 30 April 1951) was distinguished professor of International Law during the first half of the 20th century, serving on the faculties of Brown University, Harvard University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the U.S. Naval War College.

Charles Herbert Stockton (Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 13 October 1845 - died in Washington, D.C., 31 May 1924) was a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Navy's first uniformed expert in International Law.

Lassa Francis Lawrence Oppenheim, was a renowned German jurist. He is regarded by many as the father of the discipline of international law. Born in Windecken near Frankfurt, Germany and educated at the Universities of Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg and Leipzig, he went to England in 1895 and lived there until his death. He first lectured at the London School of Economics and in 1908 became the Whewell Professor of International Law in the University of Cambridge.

Arnold Duncan McNair, 1st Baron McNair, CBE, KC, LLD, FBA (March 4, 1885 - May 22, 1975), was a British legal scholar, university teacher and judge. From 1959 to 1965 he served as the first President of the European Court of Human Rights. The eldest son of John McNair of Dulwich (but originally of Paisley, Scotland) and Jeannie Ballantyne, McNair was educated at Aldenham School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read law.

Sir Humphrey Waldock (otherwise known with the first name Claud or Meredith) (1904-1981) was a British jurist. He served as the British judge in the International Court of Justice from 1973 until 1981. He was also the president of the ICJ between 1979 and 1981. Prior to joining the Court, he had served on the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1961 to 1972.

Professor V. S. Mani is an internationally renownked legal scholar and an expert in the field of public international law. He was Professor for International Legal Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and Director of its Human Rights Teaching and Research Programme. He is currently the Director of Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, India.

Cormac Cullinan is a practising environmental attorney and author based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a director of the leading South African environmental law firm, Winstanley & Cullinan Inc, and Chief Executive Officer of EnAct International, an environmental governance consultancy. A former anti-apartheid activist, and a London-based commercial lawyer, he has practised, taught and written about environmental law and policy since 1992, …

Tai-Heng Cheng is a legal scholar, lawyer, and international arbitrator. Since June 1, 2006, he has been Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for International Law at New York Law School and Guest Professor at Sarah Lawrence College. He pursued his first law degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, where he was an Oxford University Scholar. In 1999, he graduated with Double First Distinction in the Final Honors School of Jurisprudence (law).