Preface

• DOI: 10.1177/0002716205282658
• Published date: 01 January 2006
• Date: 01 January 2006
• Author: Richard E. D. Schwartz
• Subject Matter: Articles

10.1177/0002716205282658THE ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMYPREFACE January603

The vision and generosity of a law dean made

this issue of The Annals possible. Hannah

Arterian, dean of the Syracuse University Col-

lege of Law, gave crucial support to a project

that came to be known as the Syracuse Confer-

ence. The conference, held at Syracuse in mid-

April 2005, brought together a remarkable

group of scholars to consider the topic, Legal

Evolution: Toward a World Rule of Law. The

papers prepared for that conference comprise

the basis for this volume and for a companion

issue of the Syracuse Journal of International

Law and Commerce.

In 2003, Dean Arterian asked me how I

would like to mark the occasion of my retirement,

after twenty-five years of teaching there. She sug-

gested a conference. Before long, we agreed

that I would design the conference in any way I

wished—and that she would allocate the funds

needed to support it. The volume you have

before you resulted from that conversation—

and from the planning, writing, and meetings

that followed.

In February 2004, I began seriously planning

for the Syracuse Conference. Working from a

new residence in Connecticut, I had generous

help from Robin Paul Malloy, Linda Zimack,

and Theresa Coulter in Syracuse and from

Jenne Lea Hayden, my staff person in and

around New Haven. The conference itself, and

the publications that issue from it, evince their

remarkably competent assistance. I thank them

all for their wonderful work.

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Richard E. D. Schwartz is Ernest I. White Professor

Emeritus at the College of Law, Syracuse University,

and senior research scholar at Yale Law School. He has

also held positions at Northwestern University and the

State University of New Yorkat Buffalo. He is the found-

ing editor of the Law & Society Review. His publications

include Criminal Law: Theory and Process (with Joseph

Goldstein and Alan Dershowitz) and Unobtrusive Mea-

sures, 2nd ed. (with Webb, Campbell, and Sechrest). His

special field of interest is in the sociology of law, specifi-

cally law and society, the proliferation of democracy,

and the world rule of law.

DOI: 10.1177/0002716205282658

Preface

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RICHARD E. D. SCHWARTZ