Amalia D. Kessler
Professor of Law and (by courtesy) History, and Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar, Stanford University.

I received many helpful questions, comments, and suggestions on this piece. With apologies for any inadvertent omissions, I would like to thank: Jane Dailey, Vincenzo Ferrari, George Fisher, James Folts, Willy Forbath,
Josh Getzler, Hank Greely, Ron Harris, Dan Ho, Morty Horwitz, Roy Kreitner, Pnina Lahav, David Luban, Bernie Meyler, Bill Novak, Rogelio Pe´rez-Perdomo, Orna Rabinovich-Eini, Amnon Reichman, Noya Rimalt, Issi Rosen-Zvi, Richard Ross, Yair Sagy, David Schorr, Yoram Shachar, Chris Tomlins, Avishalom Tor, Jim Whitman, and Steven Wilf. I also benefited greatly from presentations at the
Stanford Law Faculty Workshop, the Tel Aviv Law and History Workshop, the Haifa Law School Faculty Workshop, the 2008 Meeting of the Research Committee
on the Sociology of Law, and the Histories of Legal Transplantations conference (hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem and the Cegla Center for
Interdisciplinary Research of the Law at Tel Aviv University). Many thanks as well to Binyamin Blum and Billy Abbott for excellent research assistance, to the editors
ofTheoretical Inquiries in Lawfor very helpful editing and commentary, to the American Council of Learned Societies for the generous research support provided by a Ryskamp Fellowship, and, last but not least, to the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where I served as a 2007-08 Research Fellow.