Acknowledgments

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

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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 collection of books, it occurred to Steve that although

there were many good books covering criminal 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 import-

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

reframing to the form it has now. The authors each undertook half of

the initial writing, but, with f‌irst drafts in hand, they consulted closely,

discussing and offering suggestions on one another’s work. This book

is the result of their joint effort.

Like any other book, however, it is not the result solely of their ef-

forts. Steve is grateful to the Foundation for Legal Research for their

material support of this research project. He would also like to thank

in particular Alex McNabb and Matt Kelly, both of whom undertook the

role of research assistant with great industry and imagination, and con-