Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, New York, and Visiting Professor in Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. An ardent advocate of the argute yet habile silent p, as in psithurism, ptomaine, cupboard and rhubarb, he writes on forensic rhetoric, visual advocacy, law and literature, juristic semiotics.

Anselm Haverkamp, Emeritus Professor of English at NYU, is Professor of Philosophy at LMU Munich. As director of the NYU Poetics and Theory Program he for years organized and taught the "Literature and Philosophy" seminars with Jacques Derrida (Fall term) and Stanley Cavell (Spring term).

Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University. She has taught at UC-Berkeley, Germany, France, Princeton, The European Graduate School (currently) and has published many works inflected by deconstruction and hermeneutics.