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"Preface" [2013] ELECD 476; in Guilfoyle, Douglas (ed), "Modern Piracy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) xii

Book Title: Modern Piracy

Editor(s): Guilfoyle, Douglas

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849804844

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Preface
This volume reflects the work of the Modern Laws of High Seas Piracy
Project, a group of lawyers from academia and government or private
practice drawn from Europe, North America and Southeast Asia. The aim
of the project was to bring together a range of academics and practition-
ers, as well as both public and private lawyers, to produce a study that
considers the modern law of maritime piracy in the round and in context.
As editor, I must express our gratitude first and foremost to the
Leverhulme Trusts International Networks Grants that provided financial
assistance to bring us together for a highly productive workshop in
London in September 2011. Thanks are also due to the administrative
team at the UCL Faculty of Laws for their support at that meeting in a
variety of ways.
I am grateful to all the contributors for taking the time away from their
ordinary commitments and in many cases for taking the time required to
travel, and I must also express my thanks to their institutions for
supporting that time away and/or travel. I must also thank the contribu-
tors for their diligence, timeliness and good humour throughout the entire
process. It is a blessing, though perhaps a mixed one, when the
contributors are more efficient than their editor.
In assembling the present volume, we have drawn on some work which
has been previously published (though it appears here in updated or
substantially revised form). I would like to acknowledge the permission
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