Yves Dezalay is a director at Maison des Sciences L'Homme, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Bryant G. Garth is director of the American Bar Foundation. Together they wrote Dealing in Virtue: International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of a Transnational Legal Order, published by the University of Chicago Press, and coedited Global Prescriptions: The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy.

"The Internationalization of Palace Wars is an extraordinary book. A major contribution, it is original yet connected in multiple ways to several new research concerns and debates about law and globalization, the nature of the state today given globalization, and the formation of transnational elites." - Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo