Sir Michael Tugendhat was educated at Ampleforth College, at Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, where he was a scholar and read Classics and Philosophy, at Yale University, on a Henry Fellowship, and at the Hague Academy of International Law, at both of which he studied International Law. He is Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, a Deputy High Court Judge and Recorder of the Crown Court and a Bencher of the Inner Temple. He trained in Mediation with the World Intellectual Property Organisation, Geneva and acts as arbitrator in ICC and other arbitrations. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Advance Legal Studies, University of London, for which he acted as Chair of the Civil Law Working Party on Corruption in 1999.
Iain Christie was educated at Plymouth College and Hatfield College Durham where he read law. He was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1989 and in 1991 admitted to the bar of the High Court of Australia. Between 1992 and 2000 he was an assistant legal adviser, HM Diplomatic Service in which capacity he acted for the British Government as agent in proceedings before the European Commission and Court of Human Rights and was a member of the Bill team that drafted the Human Rights Act 1998. He is a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies and research student at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He is also a member of the editorial board of the European Human Rights Law Review and a member of the board of management of the Durham University Human Rights Centre.