Acknowledgements

On a splendid summer day in June 2015, 15 scholars convened in Istanbul for a conference on one of the most provocative subjects in modern public law: unamendable constitutional provisions.

We gathered on the picturesque campus of Koc University Law School, our host for this gathering in partnership with Boston College Law School. We organized this program under the auspices of the International Society of Public Law, at the time only 1-year old but today the leading learned society for the study of public law.

We thank the staff at Koc University Law School for their contributions to the success of the conference and this volume. We are particularly grateful to Esra Ozcan and Zeynep Kocer for their masterful organizational work, their enthusiasm for the conference program, and also for their generosity of spirit to all conference participants.

We thank our friends at Springer for publishing our ideas in their series on Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice. We thank series editors Mortimer Sellers and James Maxeiner for their excitement about our project, and we express our gratitude to Diana Nijenhuijzen, Neil Olivier, Manjula Saravanan, and Corina van der Giessen for their advice in shepherding our manuscript to publication.

Finally, we exclaim our profound appreciation for the contributors to this volume. They have been model colleagues from the very beginning of this project. They made our conference a resounding success with their careful advance preparation for our gathering, with their sustained and constructive engagement during the conference and since then in the process of editing and revising their chapters, and also with their friendliness to us and each other. We can state with no uncertainty that their chapters will enrich the study of a subject that is extraordi­narily important for understanding the promise and limits of constitutionalism.

Richard Albert Bertil Emrah Oder