Aideen Gilmore is Deputy Director (currently on career break) of the Northern Ireland based Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) where she led programmes on policing, criminal justice, equality and the protection of rights. Aideen has developed training tools for local community organisations and been involved in establishing the Human Rights Consortium, a coalition of over 200 organisations, to campaign for an inclusive Bill of Rights for NI. She is a Board member of the Participation and Practice of Rights Project, which supports those experiencing disadvantage to use a rights-based approach to tackle social and economic inequalities. She represented the human rights sector on the Bill of Rights Forum and has testified on human rights in Northern Ireland to the US Congress, Oireachtas, UK Parliament, Scottish Parliament and the UN. Donncha O'Connell is a qualified barrister and Lecturer in Law at NUI Galway. He is also a part-time Commissioner of the Law Reform Commission and a member of the Legal Aid Board. Having served a term as Dean of Law at NUIG he spent a year as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. Donncha is the former Director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and is currently a board member of the London-based NGO, INTERIGHTS. He edits the Irish Human Rights Law Review and is a regular contributor to English and Irish language print and broadcast media on legal and political affairs. Senator Ivana Bacik, LLB, LLM (Lond), BL, FTCD, is Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin, and a practising barrister. She is a Labour Party Senator for Dublin University (elected 2007 and re-elected 2011), and became Deputy Leader of Seanad Éireann in May 2011. Ivana has written and published extensively on criminal law, criminology, human rights, constitutional law and related matters, and has a long track record of campaigning on civil liberties, penal reform and feminist issues. Her publications include Kicking and Screaming: Dragging Ireland into the Twenty-First Century (O’Brien Press, 2004) John Bisset is a community worker with the Canal Communities Local Drugs Task Force. Much of his work has been connected with issues of urban regeneration and the abuse of human rights experienced by those living in inadequate and poorly maintained local authority housing complexes. He is involved in a number of campaigning organisations including the St. Michael's Estate Regeneration Team, The Canal Communities Campaign for Equality and the Tenants First Housing Campaign. He is also a member of the Debt Justice Action Group who have initiated the 'Anglo: Not our Debt Campaign’. John is the author of Regeneration: Public Good or Private Profit? (Tasc-New Island, 2008) Mary Cullen is a former Senior Lecturer in Modern History at NUI Maynooth and currently a Research Associate at the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Mary is one of the pioneers of women’s history in Ireland and a strong advocate of women’s rights. Her areas of expertise include social and economic aspects of women's history in the 19th and 20th centuries and the history of Irish feminism. She has published several books on these topics as well as editing and contributing to Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish women in education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Argus 1987). Michael Taft is political and economic research officer with the trade union Unite and a prominent commentator on economic matters on television and radio. He is a member of the Economist’s Network of Tasc, the economic think tank, and a regular contributor to the organisation’s Progressive-Economy Blog. Michael has contributed articles on fiscal policy, wages and income and employment to a range of journals and periodicals. He wrote Paying our Way: Proposals for Reforming the Irish Taxation System for the Community Platform and is the author of the blog ‘Notes on the Front’.