Elspeth Guild, Jean Monnet Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Partner, Radboud University, Queen Mary University of London, Kingsley Napley Solicitors,Steve Peers, Professor of Law, University of Essex,Jonathan Tomkin, Member of the Legal Service, European Commission Steve Peers is Professor of Law at the Law School of the University of Essex. He is a specialist in EU law, including EU free movement and immigration law, on which he has written extensively. He is the co-editor of Commentary on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (publication forthcoming) and of two editions of EU Immigration and Asylum law: Text and Commentary, and is also the author of three editions of EU and Justice and Home Affairs Law. He is also a consultant for EU institutions and NGOs in this field. Elspeth Guild is Jean Monnet Professor of law at the Radboud University, Nijmegen Netherlands and Professor of law at Queen Mary University of London. She is also Partner at the London law firm Kingsley Napley. She has written and taught widely on EU immigration and asylum issues. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Brussels based think tank the Centre for European Policy Studies.

Jonathan Tomkin is a Member of the Legal Service of the European Commission. He is a qualified Barrister, former Referendaire (Legal Secretary) at the Court of Justice of the European Union and past Director of the Irish Centre for European Law, Trinity College, Dublin. He has written and lectured extensively in the field of Union citizenship, Immigration and Asylum law and has appeared regularly before national and European Courts in cases concerning the exercise of EU free movement rights and access to international protection.