"Acknowledgements" [2011] ELECD 235; in Zumbansen, Peer; Calliess, Gralf-Peter (eds), "Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory

Editor(s): Zumbansen, Peer; Calliess, Gralf-Peter

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848448230

Section Title: Acknowledgements

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Acknowledgements
The contributions to this volume have been written by economists, legal scholars, histo-
rians, sociologists and political scientists. A collaboration among such a diverse group of
scholars, across disciplinary, geographical and time boundaries, demands a considerable
amount of ground-work, logistical patience and persistence and ­ above all ­ the com-
mitment on the part of the participating scholars to see the project through to the end.
We are grateful to our authors to the present volume for their courage and interest to
contribute to this ambitious, interdisciplinary collection. We are furthermore grateful
to the Collaborative Research Centre `Transformations of the State' at the University of
Bremen, Germany and its Speaker, Professor Stephan Leibfried, for generously support-
ing an international workshop at which some of the papers in this volume were first pre-
sented in October 2007. This workshop was jointly organized between the CRC and the
German Law Journal, constituting the Journal's Fifth Annual International Conference.
Complementing the intermittently substantively revised and expanded papers from this
event, are chapters by renowned scholars in the field, most of which have been written
expressly for this volume. Where we are including work that draws on scholarship previ-
ously published elsewhere, we are grateful to the following institutions for their generous
permission to do so: the German Law Journal, the Illinois Law Review and Cliometrica.
We would like to express our gratitude to Petra Schreiber, Monika Sniegs and Mauro
Zamboni for helping organize the initial workshop in Bremen. Finally, we wish to ...