Most of the chapters here first appeared as papers at the Bentham House Symposium
held at UCL in May 2015. This was an exciting and stimulating conference, bringing
together academics from different disciplines and practitioners, for challenging
and thought- provoking debate. The papers benefited greatly from the discussion and
I would like to thank the CIOT for its funding of the conference and also the law faculty
at UCL for hosting the conference and the support through the Bentham House
Conference funding (particularly Charles Mitchell and James Penner for their support
of this project and Lisa Penfold for helping the symposium to run so smoothly).
Thanks also to my research assistant James Webb for his assistance with the conference
and in the editing of this book, as well as Maxwell Myers for his help with ensuring
the chapters met with house style. Of course thanks also to the contributors for
bearing with us and our demands, and for being patient with the publication of this
collection, as well as OUP for their help and support in bringing this collection to life.