​Michele Graziadei is Professor of Comparative Private Law at the University of Torino. His research focuses on the methodology of comparative law, legal pluralism, law and language, and other theoretical problems involving the comparison of laws. He is President of the Italian society for Research of comparative Law (SIRD), Collegio Carlo Alberto fellow, and Past president of the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA); He is the author of over 100 publications in several languages; his recent publications include Comparative Property Law: Global Perspectives (edited with L. Smith), and Personal Autonomy in Plural societies (edited with M.-C. Foblets and A.D. Renteln). Lihong Zhang is Professor of Civil Law, Roman Law, and Comparative Law at the East University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai. He is Director of the Research Center on Roman Law and European Law and Vice Director of the  Civil Law Research Center of the same university. Prof. Zhang is Vice General Secretary of China’s National Society of Civil Law, Director of China’s National Society of Comparative Law, and Standing Director of China’s National Society of European Law. He is  Member of the International Academy Comparative Law and Member of the International Editorial Board of European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH). He has published widely on Civil Law and Roman law in comparative perspectives.