Editors’ Introduction

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsThe Guest Editors would like to thank sincerely Xiamen University School of Law and the China International Water Law (CIWL) research team for their considerable efforts in hosting the first international water law symposium in China at Xiamen Law School. Thanks are especially due to Dean Chongli Xu, Vice-Dean Yansheng Zhu, Director of International Economic Law Professor Huaqun Zeng, and all of our colleagues at Xiamen Law School for their strong support of the CIWL, its ongoing research and activities. The Guest Editors are enormously grateful to the numerous participants who attended the event and who have contributed to this series of publications. Special thanks to Dr Owen McIntyre, visiting scholar at Xiamen Law School (summer 2014) and international expert under the Chinese government education programme. Sincere thanks too to Dr Sergei Vinogradov (University of Dundee, UK) for his many substantive contributions and editorial support. A special note of gratitude to Ms Rachel Caldin at Lawtext for providing a copy of the word document for the Appendix which was first published in Journal of Water Law, 2(6), pp. 229–247 published by Lawtext Publishing Ltd, www.lawtext.com. A note of gratitude to our CIWL researchers, especially our new international PhD candidates at Xiamen Law School – David Devlaeminck, Nabaat Mahbub, Flavia Loures and LLM candidate, Liu Yang – who assisted the Guest Editors in a number of important ways. A deep thanks to the many peer reviewers who generously gave their time and effort to help us to improve the quality of the manuscripts. The Guest Editors are particularly grateful to Dr James Nickum, Editor-in-Chief of Water International. He has been most helpful throughout and a delight to work with. Thanks also to Dr Philippus Wester, Carolyn Haynes and all the team at Water International who offered helpful guidance throughout. And last but not least, a big thanks to Liping Dai, PhD candidate at Utrecht Law School and visiting scholar at CIWL, Xiamen, who collected, chased and processed all these manuscripts in ways that helped us all. It has been a real pleasure to work together on this special issue.