Acknowledgments

• Author: Robert J. Currie
• Pages: 13-15

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Acknowledgments

In , rock artist Sting released his rst solo album, e Dream of the

Blue Turtles. It was an amazing album that changed the course of my

life in some ways, but that is another story. In the album’s liner notes,

Sting wrote:

Since I started this thing, people have constantly referred to it as my

solo album, which of course is ridiculous. It’s as if I had done everything

myself, well I didn’t. e contribution and commitment of all those

involved made it far less an indulgent and personal statement than a

statement about how well people can work together without diluting or

compromising ideas or ideals. We also had a lot of fun.

ese are words that I nd particularly resonant as this collection

is readied for publication. Certainly the idea for the book was my own,

the product of a career thus far spent trying to focus attention on trans-

national and cross-border criminal law, both internationally and in the

Canadian context. I was perhaps better placed than most to realize that we

have a massive hole in the Canadian legal literature around these topics,

and ambitious and cocky enough to think that I could formulate a solid

way to close the gap. As self-appointed “Editor” of the collection, I am, in

a meaningful way, responsible for its content, including any limitations

it may have.

However, like every writing project of any scope, it really takes a “cast

of thousands” to make it happen, and this one is no dierent. In fact, even

more so, because in this collection I only wrote one chapter! First o, I am