Baudouin Dupret is educated in Law, Arabic and Islamic Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and has a Ph.D. in Political Sciences from the IEP (Institut d'Etudes Politiques), Paris. He is currently researcher at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and working in Cairo, Egypt at CEDEJ (Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Economique, Juridique et Sociale).
Maurits Berger studies Dutch Law and Arabic Studies with specialization in Islamic Law at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is pactised as a lawyer in the Netherlands and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Amsterdam.
Laila al-Zwaini studied Dutch Law and Arabic Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She specialized in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, London). She is currently writing a Ph.D. thesis on legal pluralism and judicial authorities in modern Yemen at the Research School CNWS, Leiden University.