Dr. Michael C. Leach is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg Law School, the Netherlands. He received his PhD (cum laude) from Tilburg Law School in September 2021. Before his PhD, he completed an M. St. in Socio-Legal Research at Oxford University, an LL.M. in Comparative Law at McGill Law School, an LL.B. in Common Law at the University of Ottawa, an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto, and a B.A. in History & Political Science, also at the University of Toronto. Between 2008 and 2011, he worked on a number of international development projects in Afghanistan in Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif, and Jalalabad, experiences that later became the inspiration for this book. He currently lives and works in Tilburg, where he writes on a range of topics that include the Rule of Law in international development, systems and complexity theory, and climate change and law in the Anthropocene.