Sjors Ligthart is Associate Professor of Criminal Law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and Principal Investigator of the research project Mental Liberty in the Age of Modern Technology: Towards Absolute Protection of the Mind?, funded by the Dutch Research Council.
The primary focus of his work is on how the law, particularly human rights law and criminal law, should protect our mental freedom, and whether this protection should have an ‘absolute’ dimension. He has special interest in the regulation of biomedical technologies and psychoactive substances. He (co)authored several books, including Minds, Freedoms and Rights (Cambridge University Press 2025) and Coercive Brain-Reading in Criminal Justice (Cambridge University Press 2022)
Muireann Quigley is Professor of Law, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Birmingham, where she leads the Psychedelics: Law, Ethics, and Society (PsychLES) cluster. With an interdisciplinary background spanning medicine, ethics, and law, her work examines how legal and regulatory systems respond to emerging biomedical and therapeutic technologies, including psychedelic substances and therapies. Her work aims to bring wider global developments in psychedelic research into conversation with the need for coherent regulatory and governance frameworks. She is also conducting empirical research on regulatory decision‑making and psychedelics, and is part of the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health, a collaborative forum exploring the role of phenomenology in mental healthcare.
Christoph Bublitz is a legal scholar at the University of Hamburg, Germany, who works at the intersection of law, philosophy, and psychology. One of his main research interest is the legal conceptualisation, regulation, and protection of the human mind. He currently writes a lot on about mind-protecting rights such as the human rights to freedom of thought and mental integrity.
He is a Principal Investigator of several research projects exploring topics of mind, technology, philosophy and law. Among them is PSYCHEDELSI, a German research cooperation examining legal, ethical, philosophical, and societal implications of the Psychedelic Renaissance, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.