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GEORGE W. LIEBMANN is a Baltimore lawyer with the firm of Liebmann and Shively, P.A.  He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (with high distinction in Government) and of the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a managing editor of the law review. He has served as executive assistant to Maryland’s governor; law clerk to the chief judge of its highest court; counsel to its department of social services and economic development corporation; and chairman of or reporter for various study commissions. He has been Simon Industrial and Professional Fellow at the University of Manchester and Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is the author of four volumes on Maryland legal practice, as well as The Little Platoons: Sub-Local Governments in Modern History (Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1995); The Gallows in the Grove: Civil Society in American Law (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997); Solving Problems Without Large Government: Devolution, Fairness and Equality (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000), reprinted as Neighborhood Futures (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 2004); Six Lost Leaders: Prophets of Civil Society (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001); The Common Law Tradition: A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars (New Brunswick, N.J.:Transaction Books, 2005);  Diplomacy Between the Wars: Five Diplomats and the Shaping of the Modern World (London and New York: I.B.Tauris and Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and His Times, 1960-2010 (London and New York: I.B.Tauris and Palgrave Macmillan,2010) and The Fall of the House of Speyer: The Story of a Banking Dynasty (London and New York, I.B. Tauris, 2015).