This book began as a roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the
American Society of International Law, and I am grateful to the
Society for its efforts to stimulate critical debate. The Institute for
Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School provided a forum for
the contributors at the half-way point, and we are deeply indebted to
its Faculty Director, David Kennedy. The comments of those who
joined that panel, including Kerry Rittich, Fran Ansley, Jennifer
Rosenblum, and Alvaro Santos, were very much appreciated.
Finally, my warmest gratitude to those at Hofstra for their sustained
support: to the law school for its generous research grants; to
Deans Eric Lane and Ron Colombo for their steadfast support for
faculty scholarship; to my indefatigable research librarian, Patricia
Kastings; to my research assistant Christina Pingaro, who assumed
major responsibility for the index; to Mary Ruggilo and Teresa
Harrington, for their coordination of staff support; and especially to
my assistant Joyce Amore Cox, for her years of patience, skill, and
hard work.
John Berger has been a kind and wise editor, and we are happy to
join the long list of distinguished legal scholarship that would not exist
without him.