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"Acknowledgements" [2016] ELECD 741; in Hensler, R. Deborah; Hodges, Christopher; Tzankova, Ianika (eds), "Class Actions in Context" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) x

Book Title: Class Actions in Context

Editor(s): Hensler, R. Deborah; Hodges, Christopher; Tzankova, Ianika

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783470433

Section Title: Acknowledgements

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Acknowledgements
The research reported here could not have been conducted without the
cooperation of judges, other public officials, lawyers and other repre-
sentatives of corporations, NGOs and individual parties in the litigation
that was investigated, most of whom preferred to remain anonymous. We
gratefully acknowledge their willingness to give of their time and to
share their knowledge, experience and perspectives.
The collaborative effort that produced this book was initiated by a
series of international conferences on the globalization of class actions,
co-sponsored by Stanford Law School and the Oxford Centre for
Socio-Legal Studies, from 2007­2011. We gratefully acknowledge the
support of all those who contributed to funding these conferences,
especially the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences,
Stanford Law School and the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies,
which provided the lead grants for the 2007 conference, and Australian
National University, Florida International University Law School and
Tilburg University, which helped fund the subsequent international con-
ferences. Deborah Hensler and Ianika Tzankova thank the Private Law
Department of Tilburg University and the Royal Academy of Science of
the Netherlands for supporting their collaborative research on the Dutch
collective settlement procedure which initiated the empirical research
program. The organization of the research team was facilitated by the
American Law & Society Association's International Research Collabor-
ative program. All of the authors gratefully acknowledge the support of
their home institutions for their research and writing and for enabling the
group to convene in various parts of the world ...