Professor Dagmar Schiek is Jean Monnet Professor for European Economic Law at University Carl von Ossietzky Oldenburg (Germany) and has been a visiting professor at University of Ulster, London School of Economics and Maastricht University.Professor Lisa Waddington holds the European Disability Forum Chair in European Disability Law at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.Dr Mark Bell is a Reader in Law in the Centre for European Law and Integration, Faculty of Law, University of Leicester.