Ethnicity and Group Rights: Nomos XXXIX

Preface

PREFACE The present, thirty-ninth, volume of NOMOS began as papers and commentaries read at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy held in conjunction with the Association of American Law Schools, held in New Orleans , Louisiana in January 1995. The topic chosen by the membership was "Ethnicity and Group Rights," and Will Kyrnlicka put together an excellent program for that meeting. He also proved to be a model coeditor for this volume. His efficient intelligence is a rare commodity; it was a pleasure to collaborate with him. Our managing editor, Kathryn McDermott, took the occasion of the present volume to bring NOMOS up to speed with the computer revolution. With the aid of Niko Pfund and Despina Papazoglou Gimbel at NYU Press, not to mention the cheerful cooperation of authors, she ensured that the entire volume could be typeset electronically from the same disk. This is no mean feat when dealing with more than a score of authors, working with different computers and software, and scattered over several continents . She and the rest of the production team are deserving of our continuing gratitude. The paperback edition of NOMOS XXXVI, The Rule of Law, and NOMOS XXXVII, Theory and Practice, are both now available. I. S. xi ...