Leon Trakman is UNSW Emeritus Professor and Former Dean of Law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He has held professorial appointments in the United States, at the University of Wisconsin, University of California (Davis) and Tulane; in Canada at McGill and Dalhousie; and in Australia at UNSW. He is author of ten books and over 150 journal articles, including on topics that are addressed in this book. A barrister and international commercial arbitrator, he serves on international commercial arbitration panels of global arbitration centres. A panellist under the NAFTA, he was regularly appointed by the US, Canadian and Mexican Governments to resolve trade and investment disputes. He currently serves on the remedies panel of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). He holds both master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard University. Robert Walters is Senior Lecturer, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Walters is also Adjunct Professor of Law, European Faculty of Law, New University, Slovenia, Europe, and admitted to practice law in Australia. In 2021 and 2022, he undertook a full Professorship at the European Faculty of Law. Dr. Walters is a Qualified International Arbitrator. He is a member of ASEAN Law Association - Singapore, Asia Pacific Scholar (Privacy/Data Protection) Network. His work on cross-border data flows in the new digital economy has been recognised globally, and in 2021 and 2022 he was engaged by national governments to undertake a project on determining data flows, data adequacy, data protection, cyber security and artificial intelligence across commonwealth countries. This work was commissioned to strengthen economic outcomes to a number of commonwealth countries in the digital economy and international trade. Dr. Walters specialises in transnational commercial and private law (data protection, cyber security, artificial intelligence, trade, cross-border insolvency/restructuring (netting arrangements), contracts, arbitration).
