Marie Manikis is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. She is also an advisor to the Sentencing Academy (England and Wales) and a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and the International Centre for Comparative Criminology. She completed her doctorate in law at the University of Oxford in 2014 and has published her work in leading peer-reviewed journals. She has won several awards for her scholarship and has been cited by various courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Gabrielle Watson is a legal scholar specializing in sentencing and criminal justice. She holds the Chancellor's Fellowship at Edinburgh Law School for excellence in interdisciplinary research and innovation and is the author of the award-winning Respect and Criminal Justice (OUP 2020). Gabrielle was formerly based at the University of Oxford, where she read for her doctorate and was subsequently Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law and at Christ Church and Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College. She is Advisor to the Sentencing Academy and in 2024 was appointed to the Criminal Courts Rules Council by the Lord Justice General of Scotland.