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This article frames the analysis conducted by the authors in this Special Issue on the influence and control of private law over the ways in which private, nonstate actors pursue regulatory functions. It offers a dense and substantive introduction to the analysisa, and the key assumptions and concepts underlying it. Accordingly, the article’s purpose is to contextualize the research questions that are addressed by the authors, along with the forecasting of conclusions that follow from their contributions jointly.

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