Zuzanna Peplowska-Dabrowska is an Assistant Professor at the Commercial, Maritime and Civil Procedure Law Department of the Law and Administration Faculty at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruo, Poland. Between 2015 and 2019, she was a member of the Polish Codification Commission for Maritime Law. She is a Board Member of the Polish Maritime Law Association, a member of the Maritime Law Commission's board of the Polish Academy of Sciences and an arbitrator in maritime disputes. She is an author of many publications in the field of maritime law in Polish and English, including Codification of Maritime Law (Informa Law from Routledge 2020) and Maritime Safety - A Comparative Approach (Informa Law from Routledge 2021) (both as a co-editor and contributor). She has researched in multiple maritime law centres, including Swansea, Southampton, Oslo, Cadiz, Castellon de la Plana and New Orleans (the latter as a Fulbright grantee). She is a member of the Polish Delegation to the Legal Committee sessions in London and one of the directors of the maritime and transport law course annually held in Dubrovnik. Igor Vio has been teaching courses in Maritime Law, Law of the Sea, Maritime Labour Law, Environmental Law and Transport Insurance as an Associate Professor at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies. As a visiting lecturer, he has participated in courses and delivered lectures at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute in Malta, the IMO International Maritime Academy in Trieste, the International Ocean Institute at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada and the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden.
His legal education includes an LLB degree at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law, an LLM in Ocean and Coastal Law at the University of Miami, School of Law, an LLM in the Maritime Law and Law of the Sea and a PhD degree in Maritime Law from the University of Split, Faculty of Law. As a UN fellow, he spent one year in the United States and worked at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in New York City. Igor Vio has published papers covering various fields of the international law of the sea and maritime law. He was the editor of the volume Maritime Code of the Republic of Croatia and Recent Developments in the Area of Maritime and Transportation Law and a member of the working group for drafting amendments of the Maritime Code. As an invited speaker, he participated with presentations at various national and international conferences. He is the Secretary General of the Croatian Maritime Law Association and a Titulary Member of the CMI.