Charis van den Berg is a Ph.D. candidate in law and economics at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She was admitted to the selective LL.M. in legal research at the University of Groningen, specialising in international and European law. For several years she has been a researcher at the Department of Legal Theory, focusing on the right to self-determination and on aspects of self-regulation in the EU.

Tobias Nowak holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Groningen. He works as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Transboundary Legal Studies of the Faculty of Law and at the University College of the University of Groningen. He is interested in the interaction between politics and international law. He mainly does socio-legal research on political decision-making in the European Union and on the application of EU law in the courts of the Member States.