Acknowledgements

The contributions included in this edited volume were presented at an international multidisciplinary online conference held on 3-4 December 2020 on the topic ‘The evolution of transnational private rule-makers: Understanding drivers and dynamics’. This conference was organized by the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), a Center of Excellence at Tilburg University.

The event marked the completion of the first two years of a 5-year research project, led by Panagiotis Delimatsis, on ‘The Resilience and Evolution of Economic Activism and the Role of Law’ (REVEAL) – that received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERCCoG – Grant Agreement No 725798).

The conference and this edited volume would not have been possible without the support of many people. We would like to thank Enrico Partiti, who played a pivotal role in co-organizing the conference and bringing people and ideas together in the early stages of preparing this volume. For his intellectual engagement, collegiality, and advice, we are grateful to him. We would like to thank the contributors for their time and expertise dedicated to our project, and their hard work to deliver this volume in time. Your continued commitment and cooperation throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, which posed challenges of all sorts, is greatly appreciated.

We would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive and valuable comments, and Finola O’ Sullivan, Tom Randall, Marianne Nield, Robert Judkins and their colleagues at Cambridge University Press, for their professionalism, support and timely responses throughout the publication process.

We are thankful to the Tilburg University Library for their generous financial contribution, making it possible to publish this volume Open Access.

We would like to dedicate this book to the TILEC community.

Panagiotis Delimatsis, Stephanie Bijlmakers, and M. Konrad Borowicz

Tilburg, December 2022