We have the pleasure of introducing the seventy-second volume of the American Journal of Comparative Law. This volume is also our first as Editors-in-Chief and the first for which the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the University of Pittsburgh Law School are the Journal’s host institutions. We are grateful to our predecessors, Helge Dedek and Franz Werro for their stewardship of the Journal and to our colleagues in the American Society of Comparative Law who have entrusted us with this role. We are delighted that Professors Richard Albert (University of Texas at Austin School of Law) and Joshua Karton (Queen’s University Faculty of Law) will be staying on as Book Review Editors.
This volume continues to reflect the work that Professors Dedek and Werro have done in attracting high-quality submissions and selecting excellent scholarship through a rigorous peer-review process. We are committed to sustaining this practice. We look forward to working with prospective authors, the members of the Journal’s Executive Editorial Board, and peer reviewers, all of whose contributions are indispensable to the Journal’s success.