Acknowledgments

We thank the University of California Irvine School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Southern California for supporting this project. Wayne Sandholtz is grateful to the Berlin–Potsdam Research Group “The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?” at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he was a senior fellow and where he conducted the initial research that informed his contributions to this book. The Group’s codirectors – Georg Nolte, Heike Krieger, and Andreas Zimmermann – provided constructive insights and suggestions. The authors also thank Sarah Gansen and Madeline Owens for outstanding research assistance.