He was born in Bagheria, Palermo, in 1946. He is one of Italy’s most prominent legal scholars. His main areas of research are tort law, contract law, and European private law. He has also focused on other current legal issues, such as biological harm. His commitment to academia has been demonstrated through his teaching at leading Italian law schools, as the author of numerous books and research articles, and as the editor of legal research publications.

He was born in Valladolid, Spain, in 1951. He holds a Ph.D. from the Complutense University of Madrid and is considered one of the most prominent contemporary Spanish legal scholars for his research on criminal law. Dr. Berdugo’s areas of research include international criminal law, criminal policy in Ibero-America, corruption and criminal law, the criminal law protection of honor and against bodily injury, and the criminal law protection of health.

Born in Madrid, Spain, in 1946, he is one of Spain’s most prominent labor law experts. His main areas of study are labor law, constitutional labor rights, and labor union law. He has devoted himself to research and reflection on the nature of labor law and, in this vein, has applied an interdisciplinary historical, social, and political perspective in his exploration of this branch of legal science.

He is considered one of the most prominent contemporary Spanish jurists due to his distinguished service in high-level judicial positions and the academic excellence of his research, as well as his efforts to promote and cultivate legal thought. He is one of the most prestigious speakers in Spain and Latin America on topics related to the role of judges in a constitutional state.

He was born in Gaomi, Shandong, China, in 1955. Mo Yan, the pen name of Guan Moye and the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, is considered one of the most important contemporary Chinese writers for the mastery and detail with which he paints a portrait—at once critical, dramatic, realistic, and fantastical—of the characters and settings of China’s peasant society throughout the country’s 20th-century history.

He was born in Capillas, Palencia, Spain, in 1953. He is one of Spain’s leading legal scholars specializing in administrative law, a field in which he has achieved significant prestige and recognized influence within the international legal academic community. Within these areas of legal doctrine, his academic research has spanned various thematic branches, such as administrative procedure, contentious-administrative jurisdiction, judicial oversight of official secrets and administrative discretion, recent developments in European contentious-administrative proceedings, the right to strike in the context of public employment, and the provision of public services, among others.

He was born in 1944 in Broistedt, Germany. He holds a doctorate from the University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) and is a professor emeritus at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München). He is considered one of the most prominent contemporary legal scholars for his research on criminal law, as well as on the history, philosophy, and sociology of law.

He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pisa and is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. He is considered one of the most prominent contemporary Italian historians for his research on a wide range of topics, spanning from the Italian Renaissance to modern European history.

A novelist, journalist, and screenwriter, and winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, he is considered one of the most important contemporary Cuban writers because of the mastery with which he presents a realistic and expressive portrait of contemporary Cuban society.