Acknowledgements
This volume would not have been possible without an event that provided its initial focus: an international roundtable held at Harvard in 2014, from which further discussion of the topics, critical exchanges and new and fundamentally revised contributions followed. The editors gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Harvard-Yenching Institute in funding that scholarly meeting, during a period when Leung was a visiting scholar (academic year 2013–14). Not all the discussants at the roundtable were able to contribute to this volume, and not all contributors to the volume could attend the initial roundtable. But the 2014 sessions have remained an essential reference point in guiding the book's aims and significantly helped to shape its final content.
At Cambridge University Press the editors would like to thank Helen Barton for her encouragement of and continuing support to work at the intersection between linguistics and law, and Stephanie Taylor and Bethany Johnson for assistance in preparing the final version of the book from our manuscript.
