(p. v) Acknowledgments

Our sincere thanks to the authors for agreeing to contribute and for their cooperation throughout. This Handbook is their work, and without their timely and professional collaboration, it would have been an impossible task. Thanks also to Dominic Byatt, Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press, for so wholeheartedly supporting the project. Our respective institutions, Dublin City University, the University of Bamberg, and the University of California, San Diego, hosted a number of editorial meetings, and we are grateful for the many ways in which they have supported our efforts. In addition to our home institutions, we thank the London School of Economics for hosting several editorial meetings at critical stages of the project. Martin gratefully acknowledges support for work on the Handbook from the Norwegian Research Council (FriSam Project No. 222442) and from the School of Law and Government and the Vice-President for Research, Dublin City University. We thank Matthias Bahr, Eric Bientzle, Wolfgang Goldbach, Margret Hornsteiner, Erik Jäger, David Ruß, and Akisato Suzuki for help in preparing the manuscript. (p. vi)