Andrew Lynch is a professor of law at the University of New South Wales, has written on judicial decision-making on the High Court for many years, and has recently been researching and publishing in the area of judicial appointments reform.

He has co-authored several books, including Inside Australia's Anti-Terrorism Laws and Trials (2015) and What Price Security? Taking Stock of Australia's Anti-Terrorism Laws (2006), and has written extensively on the Carmody affair in the media.

Carolyne Larrington is Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John’s College, Oxford.

Her previous books include The Women’s Companion to Mythology; The Poetic Edda; King Arthur’s Enchantresses: Morgan and her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition (I.B.Tauris 2006, paperback 2014);

Magical Tales: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children’s books (edited with Diane Purkiss); and The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles (I.B.Tauris, 2015).

Helen Cooper has written and illustrated over 18 picture books. They have been translated into over 26 languages and won various awards. Notably among these The Bear Under The Stairs, winner of the Smarties Young Judges Prize, The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed, and Pumpkin Soup, both winners of the Library Association Kate Greenaway medal.