• Council of Europe (Prof. Bea VERSCHRAEGEN, University of Vienna, Austria) • European Union (Prof. Walter PINTENS and Mr. Johan DU MONGH, University of Leuven, Belgium) • International Commission on Civil Status (Mr. Jacques MASSIP, Mr. Fritz HONDIUS and Ms. Chantal NAST) • Australia (Prof. John NEVILLE, Monash University) • Botswana (Dr. Emmanuel QUANSAH, University of Gaborone) • Canada (Prof. Martha BAILEY, Prof. George ALEXANDROWICZ and Prof. Nicholas BALA, Queen's University, Prof. Margaret MCCALLUM, University of New Brunswick and Prof. Jacques BEAULNE, University of Ottawa) • Costa Rica (Mr. Henry SAINT DAHL, lawyer, Charlottesville, USA; Mr. Gerardo TREJOS, Editorial Juricentro, San José;Ms. Larissa ZAGUSTIN, lawyer) • Croatia (Prof. Petar SARCEVIC) • Czech Republic (Dr. Milana HRUSAKOVA, Masarykovy Univerzity, Brno) • Denmark (Prof. Susanne STORM, University of Odense and Prof. Hans GODSK PEDERSEN, Copenhagen Business School) • England and Wales ( Prof. Rebecca PROBERT, University of Warwick) • Finland (Mr. Matti SAVOLAINEN, Ministry of Justice) • Ghana (Prof. em. William Cornelius Ekow DANIELS, Supreme Court of Ghana) • Germany (Prof. Dieter SCHWAB, Prof. Peter GOTTWALD and Ms. Eva NOURNEY, University of Regensburg) • Greece (Prof. Ismene ANDROULIDAKI, University of Athens) • India (Prof. K.B. AGRAWAL, Indian Institute of Comparative Law) • Iran (Dr. Nadjma YASSARI, Head of Department for the Laws of Islamic Countries, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany) • Ireland (Prof. Paul WARD, University College Dublin) • Japan (Prof. Satoshi MINAMIKATA, University of Niigata, Prof. Shigeru MARUYAMA, University of Kangawa and Dr. Hiroko TANAKA, University of Exeter, UK) • Malaysia (Dr. Zaleha KAMARUDIN, Int. Islamic University Malaysia) • Mexico (Prof. José MARQUEZ GONZALEZ, University of Veracruz) • Netherlands (Prof Gregor VAN DER BURGHT, Free University Amsterdam and Prof. Jaap DOEK, Free University Amsterdam and University Leiden) • New Zealand (Prof. William ATKIN and Prof. Rosemary GORDON, Victoria University of Wellington) • Portugal (Prof. Guilherme FREIRE FALCAO DE OLIVEIRA, University of Coimbra) • Serbia and Montenegro (Prof. Oliver ANTIC, Pravni Fakultet u Beogradu) • Singapore (Prof. Wai Kum LEONG and Prof. Debbie ONG, National University of Singapore) • Slovenia (Prof. Miroslava GEC-KOROSEC, University of Maribor) • Spain (Prof. Gabriel GARCIA CANTERO, Univeristy of Zaragoza and Prof. Joaquin RAMS ALBESA, University of Madrid) • Sweden (Prof. Maja ERIKSSON, Uppsala University and Prof. Johanna SCHIRATZKI, Stockholm University) • Switzerland (Prof Suzette SANDOZ, Université de Lausanne) • Uruguay (Prof. Walter HOWARD, Prof. Mercedes OTEGUI, and Prof. Santiago ALTIERI, University of Montevideo) • USA (Prof. Laurence NOLAN, Howard University and Prof. Lynn WARDLE, Brigham University) • Zambia (Dr. Chuma HIMONGA, University of Cape Town)