The editors thank all of the authors who submitted chapters for this book, as
well as the other persons who contributed to the success of the November
2008 conference of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the
American Society of International Law (ASIL): The Politics of International
Economic Law: The Next Four Years. Taking place at a special, optimistic
point in time, shortly after the U.S. presidential election of 2008, the conference
benefited from the participation of many from Washington, D.C.,
and from far away, including our keynote and endnote speakers, Jennifer A.
Hillman (World Trade Organization [WTO] Appellate Body Member and
German Marshall Fund of the United States), Hon. William Frenzel (Brookings
Institution), Prof. John H. Jackson (Georgetown University Law Center),
Lucy Reed (ASIL and Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer LLP), and Ambassador
John K. Veroneau (Deputy U.S. Trade Representative [USTR]).