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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FOREWORD

to the Second Edition

This is my f‌iftieth year in law teaching. That means I am 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 learned 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 this 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 teaching 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 Dalhousie Univer-

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

by Joseph Rikhof, senior counsel, manager of the law with the Crimes

Against Humanity and War Crimes Section of the Department of Justice,

Canada. Professor Currie has added signif‌icant new material of his own

to the material in the 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, 2007; 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 material, and

otherwise assisted in the new edition.

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