David Pimentel
David Pimentel is a Professor of Law at the University of Idaho and a PhD candidate in Law & Politics at the University of Graz’s Centre for Southeastern European Studies. He has a B.A. (Economics) from Brigham Young University and both an M.A. (Economics) and a J.D. (Law) from the University of California Berkeley, having finished his law degree at Harvard Law School. He has experience in Bosnia and Herzegovina leading the Court Restructuring project for the Independent Judicial Commission in 2002 and as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Sarajevo’s Law Faculty in 2010-11. From 2003-07, he served as the Chief of Court Management at the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and also worked as Head of Rule of Law for South Sudan for the UN Mission there. He has lectured and authored articles on, inter alia, rule of law promotion, judicial structure and governance, and court reform around the world, including not just BiH but also South Sudan, Nepal, Mozambique, Iraq, Turkey, Montenegro, and Thailand.
Benedetta Merlino
Benedetta Merlino is a Doctoral student in Law and Politics at the University of Graz. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in International Science from the University of Bologna, a Master's Degree in International Relations from the University of Turin and a Master's Degree in Democracy and Human Rights in Southeast Europe from the University of Sarajevo, where she wrote a thesis on the impact of Civil Society in shaping the concept of nationalism among youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is part of the board of directors and writer at IARI (Institute for International Relations' Analysis), and she cooperates with the Post Conflict Research Center of Sarajevo. Her research and academic activity focus on the Western Balkan area, and her topics of interest include nationalism, state capture, post-war memorialization and Civil Society.