Foreword to the second edition

• Author: Roger S Clark
• Profession: Board of Governors Professor Rutgers Law School, Camden, New Jersey
• Pages: 24-26

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FOR EWORD

to the Second Edition

This is my f‌iftieth year in law teaching. That means I a m of an age

where (mostly f‌ine) younger scholars f‌latter me by asking me to write

a foreword, or even an afterword, to their books. It is not a genre of

writing that I feel comfortable with and I quickly lear ned how to say

no. The invitation to write a foreword to this book was, however, one

that I could not resist. The f‌irst edition of thi s book, which appeared

only a few short years ago, was a f‌ine pioneering piece of scholarship

in an area close to my heart: an area in which I have been te aching and

writing for much of my professional life. A new edition promised to

take it to new levels. I have not been disappointed.

Robert Currie of the Schulich School of Law at Da lhousie Univer-

sity, a leading scholar in the f‌ield, has been joined in the new edition

by Joseph Rikhof, senior counsel, man ager of the law with the Crimes

Against Humanity a nd War Crimes Section of the Depart ment of Justice,

Canada. Professor Curr ie has added signif‌icant new material of his ow n

to the material in t he earlier edition. So has Dr Rikhof, who has also

contributed an additional and very useful chapter, entitled “Extended

Liability, Defences, and Child Soldiers.” Gillian MacNeil (LLB Dalhousie,

2006; LLL University of Ottawa, 20 07; LLM Cambridge, 2008), who

wrote the origina l chapter on immunities in the f‌irst edition, has brought

that contribution up to date with some fascinating new materi al, and

otherwise a ssisted in the new edit ion.

I confess neither in law school in New Zealand in the early 1960s,

nor as a graduate student at Columbia Law School in New York in the