Acknowledgments

This volume had its beginnings in a conference of the same title at Clare College, Cambridge on 16-17 May 2016, made possible by the generous support of the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought; the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki; the Trevelyan Fund of the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge; and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.

We are immensely grateful to the present chapter authors for their commit­ment and engagement in making this a collection that perpetuates the vitality of that exchange in a new frame. Lawyers and historians have so much to talk to each other about, but they do not always think the same way, and our contributors have shown themselves open to a sometimes complicated dia­logue in a way that we have found enormously inspiring. We would also like to thank Cambridge University Press for its part in bringing the collection into being, especially Finola O'Sullivan for her consistent intellectual encourage­ment and Marianne Nield for her meticulous attention to practical matters. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers whose comments helped improve our sense of the volume and its final shape. Finally, we would like to thank our copy-editor, Heather Palomino, and our indexer, Shelley Lockwood, for their precise and painstaking work on the letter of the text.