Author’s Acknowledgments

I would like to sincerely thank my editor, Chris Diaz, without whose expertise and motivation this project would not have come to fruition. I would also like to thank contributing authors and friends, Wendi Sloane, Terese Connolly, and Alice Lin, and my wonderful research assistants Claudia Garnica Estrada, Celine Gruaz, and Ciara Taheri, for their hard work and excellent product. Thank you to my many students at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law for teaching me every day. Thank you also to Alyssa Dyar, whose support of this textbook allowed me to use the drafts to teach my courses. Most especially, thank you to Stuart, Zeeba, Pierce, Amara, and Cole, for being my inspiration every single day; and to Nahid, Amir, Atessa and Mahsa for being my beginning.