Acknowledgements
We extend our deepest gratitude to the individuals and institutions whose invaluable support made this volume possible. Our heartfelt thanks go to David Dyzenhaus, whose early recognition of this project’s intellectual promise and steadfast guidance were instrumental throughout its development. We are also deeply grateful to the contributors of this volume, whose dedication to their chapters and generous peer review significantly enriched the final work.
Special thanks to the editorial assistants at CUP – Natasha Burton, Edgar Mendez, and Marianne Nield – whose expertise and professionalism were crucial in bringing this volume to completion. We are particularly appreciative of the University of Lausanne, and in particular the Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice, and Public Administration, for their generous financial support in facilitating the formal review and Open Access publication of this work.
Finally, we express our sincere gratitude to Baris Kastas and Augusto Sperb Machado for their meticulous review of the manuscript and their invaluable insights.
Chapter 1
The author wishes to express his heartfelt gratitude to Sandrine Baume for her support throughout this project, to Lars Vinx for providing detailed and crucial comments on a prior version of this chapter, to Richard Epstein for offering helpful suggestions on the framing of ideas, and to Mattias Kumm for generously taking the time to discuss Kelsen’s work.
Chapter 2
The author is extremely grateful to Sara Lagi for her very pertinent comments and suggestions on this chapter.
Chapter 5
The author would like to thank Sandrine Baume and David Ragazzoni for their valuable comments in the conception and writing phase of this chapter.
Chapter 6
The author would like to thank Lars Vinx and Till van Rahden for their very helpful comments on an earlier draft.
Chapter 8
The author would like to thank Roberto Gargarella, Stephen Holmes, Fernando Limongi, Zhaotian Luo, Gerry Munck, and David Ragazzoni for their comments.
Chapter 9
The author would like to thank Arthur Ripstein and Lars Vinx for their very helpful comments on drafts of this paper and the Tarello Institute for Legal Philosophy at the University of Genoa for the discussion of his paper at the First Genoa-Toronto Colloquium on Law & Philosophy.
Chapter 10
The author is grateful to Carlo Invernizzi Accetti and the volume editors for criticisms of an earlier version.
Chapter 13
The author would like to thank Augusto Sperb Machado, Yannis Papadopoulos, and Lars Vinx for their valuable comments on this chapter.
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