Acknowledgements

• Author: Steve Coughlan/Glen Luther
• Profession: Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University/Associate Professor, College of Law, University of Saskatchewan
• Pages: 13-14

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ACK NOW LED GEM ENTS

This book began, a bit surprisingly, because of a trip to China. In 2006,

Steve Coughlan of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University

was invited to organize a group of Canadian criminal law scholars to

attend an international seminar on the theory of criminal law at Shan-

dong University in Jinan, China. In the wake of that conference, the

chief organizer, Professor He Bingsong, expressed an interest in learn-

ing more about the law in Canada. In the course of putting together a

bibliography and a collection of books, it occurred to Steve that although

there were many good books covering cr iminal law and procedure gen-

erally, and specialist volumes in some areas such as search and seizure,

bail, or sentencing, no book devoted exclusively to the topics of deten-

tion and arrest existed.

With an initial idea, Steve enlisted the help of Glen Luther of the

Faculty of Law, University of Saskatchewan. Glen contributed important

ideas on the structure and coverage of the book, resulting in its refram-

ing to the form it has now. The authors each undertook half of the initia l

writing, but, with f‌i rst drafts in hand, they consulted closely, discus sing

and oering suggestions on one another’s work. A second edition was

published in 2017, and the book now appears in its t hird edition, updated

to take into account the signif‌ica nt statutory changes to powers of arrest

that occurred in 2019 and the recent court decisions on various issues

relating to detention and arrest. (For personal reasons, Glen was not

able to be involved in updating the materia l for t his most recent edition.)