Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. is the John S. Stone Chair, Director of Faculty Research, and Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. His work focuses on constitutional law, the First Amendment, administrative law, telecommunications law, and comparative constitutional law. He is the author of Free Speech as Civic Structure (OUP, 2024), The Disappearing First Amendment (CUP, 2019), and Privacy Revisited (OUP, 2016), and co-author of First Amendment: Cases and Theory (Aspen Publishers, 4th edn, 2022). He is also co-editor of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy (CUP, 2025).András Koltay is Research Professor at the University of Public Service and Professor of Law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. He previously served as Rector of the University of Public Service (2018-21). He is the author of New Media and Freedom of Expression (Hart, 2019) and Media Freedom and the Law (Routledge, 2024), and co-editor of volumesincluding Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression (CUP, 2017), Comparative Privacy and Defamation (Edward Elgar, 2020), and Global Perspectives on Press Regulation, Vols. 1-2 (Hart, 2023-24). He is also co-editor of Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy (CUP, 2025).Bernát Török is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the Institute of the Information Society at the Ludovika University of Public Service in Budapest, and UNESCO Chair on Digital Platforms for Learning Societies. He previously worked as a legal expert at the Hungarian media authority and served as Chief Counselor at the Constitutional Court of Hungary (2010-18). He was a visiting scholar at Yale Law School in 2016-17. He is the author of To Speak Freely in a Democracy (2018) and co-editor of several works on free speech, media law, and new technology regulation. His research interests include freedom of speech and fundamental rights in the information society.Emily Laidlaw isCanada Research Chair in Cybersecurity Law and Professor at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on technology regulation, cybersecurity, human rights, platform regulation, privacy, online harms, freedom of expression and corporate social responsibility. She is the author of Regulating Speech in Cyberspace (CUP, 2015). Before joining Calgary in 2014, she spent nearly a decade in the UK, completing her LLM and PhD at the London School of Economics and holding a lectureship at the University of East Anglia. She is Ethics Advisor to Calgary's City Council and a member of both the Canadian Network on Information and Security and the Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance.
