I wish to thank the organizers of the XIX International Congress on Comparative
Law held in Vienna in July 2014 for selecting comparative counter-terrorism law
as a topic and for giving me the great privilege of serving as General Reporter on
the topic. I thank all the national reporters for their hard work on their reports
and subsequently on their chapters and for their helpful comments on my general
report. I also thank Professor Ulrich Sieber, Director of the Max Planck Institute
for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany, for chairing the
session in Vienna and for his wise comments.
My work on this project has been made possible by the support of the Faculty of
Law, University of Toronto, and in particular by the excellent organizational work
of my assistant Nancy Bueler and by the dedicated and creative research assistance
of the staff of the Bora Laskin Law Library. My work has also been greatly assisted
by the generous funding and other support provided by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Foundation by way of the award to me of a 2013 Trudeau Fellowship