Benjamin Hulme is a PhD candidate in EU Law at the University of Warwick. His primary research interest is EU migration and asylum law, in particular, returns and readmission. His wider interests include EU constitutional, human rights and external relations law and policy. He holds an LL.B. Law degree and an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from the University of York.

Dora Kostakopoulou is Professor of European Union Law, European Integration and Public Policy at Warwick Law School. She was Co-director of the Institute of Law, Economy and Global Governance at the University of Manchester (2005–2011) and Director of the Centre for European Law at the University of Southampton (2011–2012). She was British Academy, Thank Offering to Britain Fellow (2003–2004) and recipient of an Innovation Award by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2004–2005).