Editors’ introduction to The China Water Papers – transboundary water cooperation in Asia with a focus on China (III)

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to the Xiamen University School of Law and the China International Water Law (CIWL) research team for their considerable efforts in hosting the 1st International Water Law Symposium in China at Xiamen Law School. Thanks are especially due to Dean Chongli Xu, Vice-Dean Yansheng Zhu, the Director of International Economic Law Professor Huaqun Zeng, and all our colleagues at Xiamen Law School for their strong support of the CIWL, its ongoing research and activities. We would like to express our gratitude to the numerous participants who came from near and far to attend the inaugural event. Special thanks to Dr Owen McIntyre, visiting scholar at Xiamen Law School (summer 2014), for all his support for the CIWL research work. Sincere thanks to Dr Sergei Vinogradov (University of Dundee, UK) for his many substantive contributions and editing assistance. Well done and thanks to our Xiamen CIWL researchers, especially the new international PhD candidates at Xiamen Law School: David Devlaeminck (Canada), Nabaat Mahbub (Bangladesh), Flavia Loures (Brazil) and LLM candidate Yang Liu (China), who assisted the Guest Editors in a number of important ways. And last, but not least, a big thank you 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 greatly assisted us all.

Notes

1. The UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses 1997 (entered into force 17 August 2014) (see http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/8_3_1997.pdf/).

2. The UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, Helsinki (Helsinki, 17 March 1992) 31 I.L.M. 1312 (entered into force 6 October 1996) (see http://www.unece.org/env/water/pdf/watercon.pdf/).