The editors would like to acknowledge the following people and organisations for their important contributions to this book. The Australian Research Council awarded a substantial grant that funded the work of a number of the authors in this book.^[1] We thank our fellow Chief Investigators under this grant, Simon Bronitt, Andrew Byrnes, Russell Hogg and Mark Nolan and our Research Associate, Gabriele Porretto, for their collegiality, lateral thinking and hard work in helping us bring this part of our larger project to fruition. The Australian Academy of Social Sciences also provided a smaller grant that assisted in the holding of an expert workshop that led to this volume.

Thanks are also due to the ANU College of Law for supporting the research effort of the six researchers funded by the ARC grant, particularly the ANU E Press Editorial Board, Margaret Thornton, Stephen Bottomley, Matthew Rimmer and Fiona Wheeler, and other colleagues at the ANU, including Gregor Urbas, Hilary Charlesworth, and Peter Grabosky. Most importantly, we thank Jennifer Braid for the final editorial work on the manuscript. Jenny’s tireless work, endless patience and good sense and humour were the essential ingredients for completion of the manuscript. We are grateful to our Dean, Michael Coper, for ensuring that Jenny could do this work. We would also like to thank two former students at the ANU College of Law, David Easteal and Jessica Giovanelli, for their assistance with the preparation of the manuscript. Finally, we thank our partners and children for graciously enduring countless working morning teas and dinners at our homes and other vicissitudes associated with the book. Thank you, Shaun, Isabelle, Luke, Don and Tom.

Miriam Gani and Penelope Mathew

The Australian National University

Canberra