Editorial

The articles in this issue 'Legal and Governance Challenges' reflect a range of voices in virtual world scholarship and we hope that they inspire, provoke and facilitate a range of responses. In this way we can further the work begun a decade ago by a handful of brave (and reckless) scholars, who can now proudly label their work as 'scholarship of virtual worlds'. We look forward to continuing the conversation in-world, online and even face to face.