Andrew R C Simpson holds the Chair of Scottish Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on medieval and early modern Scottish legal history. For ten years he was an academic member of staff at the School of Law in the University of Aberdeen, where he taught a wide range of subjects, including Foundations of Private law, Property law, Scottish Legal History, Comparative law, Succession and Trusts and Corporeal Moveable Property (Honours). He has also taught annually as a visting lecturer in Comparative law at the University of Bergen in Norway since 2015.

Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde is Professor in Legal History at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on medieval, early modern and modern Norwegian legal history. He completed work on this book whilst being a project manager at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.