As editor of this volume, I am grateful to each and every author of the works that are included herein. Particularly I am obliged to acknowledge Prof. Maxeiner’s contribution, whose initiative made possible the support from Springer publishing. Further, I would like to express my gratitude to Laura Piedrahita, a lawyer who has been for years collaborating with my research works, and whose excellent performance in the English language allows me to overcome the shortcomings in that fi eld. Likewise I must acknowledge the support of Eleonara Bianchi, lawyer and public translator in English, who also revised my papers before and after the Taiwan Congress. And fundamentally, I would like to manifest my appreciation to the International Academy of Comparative Law for having honored me with the responsibility of performing as General Reporter for the panel that explored the theme developed in this book.