"Acknowledgements" [2019] ELECD 592; in Sassoli, Marco (ed), "International Humanitarian Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) xxv

Book Title: International Humanitarian Law

Editor(s): Sassòli, Marco

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Acknowledgements

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS




The ideas, opinions, understanding of IHL and mistakes contained in this
book are exclusively mine (except where a footnote indicates another source).
Nevertheless, this book could not have been written without the assistance,
contribution and influence of many others, all of whom I would like to thank
wholeheartedly.

First and foremost, my research assistant (and doctoral candidate) at the Uni-
versity of Geneva, Patrick S. Nagler, LLM, provided invaluable help by revising
my English as well as the references, conducting some research and making
countless remarks and suggestions on how the text could be made more easily
understandable for the reader and more legally accurate. I did not take all of
them into account and therefore any errors or ambiguities are attributable to
me. We often intensely debated every single sentence in our common aspiration
to make sure that readers understand and do not misinterpret what I wanted to
explain. Mr. Nagler's sense of precision, desire for total accuracy and absolute
mastery of IHL impressed me every single day while I was writing this book,
and I appreciated his constant good humour, flexibility and complete commit-
ment to the project. Interacting with him has been a privilege, and I learned
something for life thanks to him beyond just English grammar and style.

The research for a few parts of this book and drafts for a few sub-sections have
also been made quietly but highly efficiently by Alessandra Spadaro, who is a
doctoral candidate at the Graduate Institute ...