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Many friends and colleagues have helped me write this book, by listening, providing encouragement, giving advice, or by reading and commenting on all or parts of the manuscript, including Guyora Binder, Susanna Blumenthal, Jonathan Bush, Hanoch Dagan, Lindsay Farmer, Samuel Gross, Klaus Günther, Daniel Halberstam, Don Herzog, Tatjana Hörnle, Klaus Lüderssen, Elizabeth Mensch, Wolfgang Naucke, Cornelius Nestler, Cornelius Prittwitz, Karl Shoemaker, Michael Stolleis, Robert Weisberg, and James Whitman, along with participants in workshops at SUNY Buffalo, the University of Frankfurt, the University of Iowa, the University of Munich, the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, and the University of Wisconsin. Thomas Green, Robert Steinfeld, Mariana Valverde, and Peter Westen were particularly generous with their time and advice, though I am sure that not even their exemplary efforts …