Obviously, a work of this length makes use of numerous statutes and legal texts, but I felt it worth the effort to highlight a few secondary sources of which I made significant use. With regard to the law of the United Kingdom, I have chiefly relied on John Sprack's A Practical Approach to Criminal Procedure (2006) as well as Blackstone's Guide to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation (2002) by Clive Walker and Blackstone's Guide to the Terrorism Act 2006(2006) by Alun Jones, Rupert Bowers, and Hugo D. Lodge. Similarly, my discussion of French law relied heavily on Jacqueline Hodgson's excellent work, entitled French Criminal Justice (2005), as well as Catherine Elliott's French Criminal Law (2001). Lastly, my discussion of comparative counterterrorism legislation was deeply informed by Yonah Alexander's fascinating work, entitled Counterterrorism Strategies: Successes and Failures of Six Nations (2006). I commend each of these works—along with all of the others cited in the succeeding pages—to any serious student of comparative law or counterterrorism.
In addition, there are numerous people without whom this book would not have come into existence. The first among them is Professor Peter Raven-Hansen, currently the Glen Earl Weston Research Professor of Law at George Washington University. Professor Raven-Hansen, while acting as the advisor for the thesis that would later evolve into this book, reviewed numerous drafts of this work and generously lent to this project his unrivaled expertise in the area of counterterrorism law. This book simply would not have been possible without him. Any contribution this work makes to the field is directly due to his assistance and encouragement. Any error is purely my own.
I must also thank Monsieur Roger Errera, Conseiller d'Etat honoraire, for his reviews of the discussion of French law and for generously allowing me—a jurist of far less stature—to bother him with numerous questions about French criminal law. Similarly, I wish to thank Professor Geoff Gilbert, Professor of Law, University of Essex, for taking the time to read my chapter on the law of the United Kingdom. My interaction with both of these gentlemen has constituted a profound learning experience all on its own.