Acknowledgments
This collection reflects the work of a great many people who share deep respect and abiding affection for Larry Alexander. I thank the twenty-two internationally renowned contributors who crafted challenging critiques of Larry’s signature positions that are worthy of their prominent stature in the academy. Thanks also go to Yale Law School’s Center for Law and Philosophy for cohosting with the University of Illinois’ Program in Law and Philosophy a May 2017 conference at Larry’s alma mater, the Yale Law School, that allowed many of these authors to test the mettle of Larry’s provocative theses through the presentation and defense of their chapters. I am also much obliged to the University of Illinois College of Law, its David C. Baum Professorship, and Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics in the McDonough School of Business (where I wrote the proposal for this volume) for their generous financial support of my work on this Festschrift.
Jessica Lietz (University of Illinois College of Law, Class of 2019) is owed an enormous debt for her dedicated research and meticulous initial editing of each of the chapters contained in this collection. This volume represents hundreds of hours of her law school career and it simply could not have been produced without this very substantial sacrifice on her part. I am also grateful to Donald Zheng (University of Illinois College of Law, Class of 2019), who lent invaluable support to the final phases of production. Professor Heather Simmons, the University of Illinois College of Law’s brilliant Reference Librarian, lent her formidable skills to this project, for which I am very appreciative. I owe sincere thanks to my University of Illinois College of Law assistant, Jackie Hadler, for adding to her already breathless work on my behalf the formidable tasks involved in assembling and polishing the collective effort of twenty-four scholars from five different countries. Readers will be grateful for the detailed index carefully compiled by Geoff Bailey, which provides a comprehensive survey of the topics addressed in this volume. Finally, I and my co-contributors to this volume benefitted very considerably from the meticulous corrections and helpful suggestions of freelance copy-editor Virginia Hamilton, to whom we are all very grateful.
It is a fitting compliment to Larry’s goodness as a person that his family so loves and respects him, and I have been the grateful beneficiary of that affection at numerous points during the production of this volume. I thank my family as well, and particularly my husband, Michael Moore, whose lifelong philosophical companionship and generous willingness to invest in each of my scholarly projects have been at the root of my happiness within the academy.
And finally, my sincere thanks to Larry himself. In an early biographical letter to me, Larry was willing to give me a rare glimpse into the childhood that shaped his ambitious adult life and, as his coauthors could predict, his responses to my pleas for help, my requests for information, and my iterative edits of his contributions were superhumanly instantaneous. I will live the rest of my life in awe of Larry’s insatiable appetite for the life of the mind, and I am grateful that his energy for scholarship reaches to the mind-numbing minutiae that require attention during the editing and production of a volume like this. It has been my very great honor and privilege to know, learn from, and through this volume, pay my deepest respects to Larry.
