Editor’s Note 

There are a number of people I would like to thank and acknowledge 
for their contributions to making this special edition happen. First, 
as Catherine Hundleby mentions in her introduction, this volume 
has its genesis in a panel on argument and social justice at the 2019 
European Conference on Argumentation (ECA) hosted by the 
University of Groningen. It was Catherine who proposed and 
organised that panel, so it is in part down to her vision and efforts 
towards that panel that we have been able to put this volume 
together. Thanks also to the organisers of the third ECA for their 
support for the panel. Thanks, of course, to those who have 
contributed work here and those who reviewed the papers. I am 
grateful to the journal editors who have been endlessly patient as we 
tried to write, review, and complete these papers through the 
constant changes and chaos caused by this global pandemic. David 
Forde has worked tirelessly to provide me with editorial assistance, 
and my job would have been a lot harder without him to share the 
load. David’s position was funded by a research grant from the 
University of Waikato/Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. I owe a 
further debt of gratitude to Catherine for agreeing to write the 
introduction to the volume connecting it to her and Phyllis Rooney’s 
2010 volume, Reasoning for Change. She and Phyllis have also 
provided invaluable guidance along the way. My intention was that 
this volume would, to some extent, reflect and expand upon the 
work that appeared in that volume. I hope we have managed to do 
that volume justice and to lay something of a foundation for future 
work in this area.  

Tracy Bowell