Some of the research for this book was funded by an Australian Research Council grant awarded to me and my colleagues Ann O’Connell and Miranda Stewart for 2010–2; I am grateful to the ARC for that support. My thanks are due to those family, friends and colleagues who helped me by providing advice, support, encouragement and wisdom: Elise Bant, Nick Beach, Natalie Burgess, Joyce Chia, Kirsty Gover, Robin Hickey, Brian Lucas, Ann O’Connell, Finola O’Sullivan, Hubert Picarda, Pauline Ridge and Andrew Robertson. I am also grateful to participants in the Melbourne Law School Legal Theory Workshop, the 2012 Not-for-Profit Conference at the University of Melbourne, the 2012 NCVO Conference at the University of Birmingham, and a 2012 seminar at the University of Liverpool (kindly organised by Debra Morris), at which ideas from this book were presented and discussed. Farrah Ahmed, Katy Barnett, Michael Bryan, Mark Burton, Chris Dent, Carolyn Evans, Dan Halliday, Tony Lee, Myles McGregor-Lowndes, Julian Sempill, Miranda Stewart, Matthew Turnour and Lael Weis all read and provided me with comments on draft materials, and in some cases on the larger part of the manuscript. Their critical and insightful attention has improved the book immensely and where my argument still falls short of the mark it is most likely because I did not heed their advice. Anna Dziedzic undertook research assistance and editorial work with great care and skill: thank you, Anna. Mathew Reiman, Cindy Bors and Joshua Keyes-Liley helped me with research assistance at the eleventh hour: thanks to all three. Rob Atkinson deserves special mention as a characteristically gracious and thoughtful reader, and more generally as an example of what an academic should be. So does Ian Malkin for his unwavering support and his friendship, so dear to me. And, of course, my wife Clare and my children Isabel and Charlie, who remind me when I most need it that there is more to life than work.