This book is the culmination of many years of collaboration between the editors, the authors, and various institutions that have supported this endeavor. They brought to the process, and to this publication, a shared commitment to increasing understanding and fostering new forms of engagement and cooperation across sectors of society and regions of the world. First off, we would like to thank the International Bar Association and the Salzburg Global Seminar. They co-sponsored three seminars, each held on the Salzburg Global Seminar’s beautiful grounds at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria. Each seminar fed into the next, and ultimately led to the pages of this book. Their institutional support and commitment to this project has been indispensable to the success of this endeavor, and has illustrated to all of us involved the importance of bringing together civil society, the legal profession, and the academy in a sustained conversation over a period of years. This was not an inexpensive endeavor, much of which occurred during a period of significant global economic turmoil. Yet these two organizations remained steadfast in their commitment to this project throughout its various phases. Additionally, the IBA, through its Public Law Section, sponsored a panel at its 2009 Annual Conference in Madrid, Spain, where the editors and some of the authors included in this book presented the project to the IBA’s membership. We are grateful to the Public Law Section and to those in attendance who offered us important feedback. A third organization played a pivotal role in supporting the community of authors in this book. The Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, and its director William Storrar, sponsored a workshop in May 2010 where the authors presented early drafts of their papers. In the idyllic setting of Princeton, New Jersey and with the generous hospitality of the Center, the authors found a unique space that allowed them to explore important topics and draw upon resources that spanned reason and faith, theology and philosophy, law and morality.