Koen Lenaerts is a Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union since 2003 and Vice President of the Court since 2012. He was a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities. He is also a Professor of EU Law at the University of Leuven. Among his extensive scientific activities, he is a member of the boards of several internationally recognized legal journals, the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law, Trier, and the Advisory Council of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Ignace Maselis has been working as a référendaire since 1993 first at the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (now the General Court of the European Union) and presently at the Court of Justice of the European Union. He practiced EU law at the Brussels bar between 1987 and 1993. He holds a Lic. Jur. from the University of Leuven and an LL.M. from the University of Chicago. Dr. Kathleen Gutman is an American-trained lawyer specialising in EU and International Law and the comparative study of EU-US law. She has been awarded several advanced legal degrees from American and European institutions, including a J.D./LL.M. in International, Foreign, and Comparative Law from Duke University School of Law, as well as a M.A. in European Studies and a Ph.D. in Law from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She has also worked as a summer associate in the Brussels office of Van Bael & Bellis and as a litigation associate in the New York office of Jones Day. Janek Tomasz Nowak is a doctoral candidate in Law at the University of Leuven. He also teaches EU Law at the MCI Management Center Innsbruck, Austria. His main research interests include EU Procedural, Constitutional, and Administrative Law. He holds a Lic. Jur. and Cand. Jur. from the University of Antwerp, and an LL.M. from King's College London. He previously worked as a trainee at the Court of Justice of the European Union.