ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Ray Brescia and Eric Stern wish to thank, primarily, the contributors to this volume as well as the University at Albany and Albany Law's Affiliation Com­mittee, particularly Ann Marie Murray and Connie Mayer.

The work was made possible in part from a grant from the University at Albany and Albany Law School Innovation Fund, for which the editors are grateful.

Ray would like to thank the many mentors and friends, some of whom contributed to this volume, but also Harold Hongju Koh, Robert Solomon, and Doug Lasdon, who taught him how to lawyer through crisis. He is also grateful to his colleague Sherri Meyer for her tireless support, as well as the assistance of the staff at the Albany Law School library and its Information Technology Services department.

Eric also wishes to thank the outstanding University at Albany CEHC Research Faculty and Staff, Swedish Defense University, Swedish Civil Con­tingencies Agency, Brad Kieserman, and FEMA OCC (for getting him inter­ested in this topic in the first place), as well as Per-Ake Martensson, Torkel Schlegel, the Swedish Crisis Lawyers network, and the contributors to this volume for helping to sustain and renew his interest in studying and teaching crisis lawyering. Eric would also like to acknowledge the contributions of Dr. Gregory Saathoff of the University of Virginia and Patrick Walsh (formerly of the University of Virginia) to the original FEMA Advice in Crisis Project, a precursor to this work.

The editors and contributors would especially like to thank Clara Platter and the team at New York University Press who were willing to support the vision for this work and see it through to publication.

Ray Brescia is the Hon.

Eric K. Stern is Professor of Political Science at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany (SUNY). Dr. Stern holds a PhD from Stockholm University and a BA from Dartmouth College. He has published extensively in the fields of cri­sis and emergency management, crisis communication, resilience, security studies, executive leadership, foreign policy analysis, and political psychol­ogy. He is also affiliated with Swedish Defense University, where he served as Director of the National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training (CRISMART) from 2004 to 2011. Stern served as a Principal Inves­tigator for the FEMA Office of Chief Counsel [Legal] Advice in Crisis Project (2010-2012) and has provided intensive crisis management training to hun­dreds of government lawyers in the United States and Sweden. His book The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure (Cam­bridge University Press, [2005] 2017) is a winner of the American Political Science Association's Herbert A. Simon Award. Other key areas of inter­est and expertise include social media and crisis preparedness, postcrisis evaluation and learning, interactive education and instructional design, and case research/teaching methodologies. In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Stern has collaborated closely with a number of international orga­nizations as well as European, Asian, and US government agencies on a wide range of applied research and educational—including training and exercise development—projects.