"Acknowledgements" [2019] ELECD 5; in Moréteau, Olivier; Masferrer, Aniceto; Modéer, A. Kjell (eds), "Comparative Legal History" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) xiv

Book Title: Comparative Legal History

Editor(s): Moréteau, Olivier; Masferrer, Aniceto; Modéer, A. Kjell

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781781955215

Section Title: Acknowledgements

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Acknowledgments
When Olivier Moréteau was invited to act as Editor of the Comparative Legal History volume in the Research Handbooks in Comparative Law Series, he only accepted after having secured the cooperation of his friend Aniceto Masferrer, President of the European Society for Comparative Legal History. Both discussed the project with Kjell Å. Modéer who was invited to join the editorial team. In the process of initiating the book, editors and contributors were given the chance to meet in Lund in the summer of 2013 for a critical and congenial discussion of the book project and the line of its content, with the help of the Olin Foundation. This contributed to making it a more comprehensive and cohesive project. From that time on, the project was in the hands of the `3M' group. As everyone knows, the three musketeers were really four, and it was no different with us, since we received valuable support from Remco van Rhee, who like many participants in the volume, wanted this project to be on the shelves ready for its audience. `All for one and one for all' became the hallmark of the volume, and the 3Ms are grateful to Re-M-co for extending help as the book was nearing completion, changing the unreachable horizon into a finish line. Together with the publication of its homonym and well-established journal, the present volume is an emblematic product of the European Society for Comparative Legal History. Like the journal, it is targeting a ...