Gary Botting

Born in England, Gary Botting is the author of about 40 books ranging from novels, poetry and plays to legal tomes on extradition and wrongful conviction. Formerly a journalist for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and the Peterborough Examiner in Ontario, Canada, he later became a professor of English and creative writing at several Canadian universities before turning his attention to the law. Obtaining his JD, LLM and Ph.D. degrees in law, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle before returning to his practice of extradition law and dangerous offender law in Vancouver, British Columbia.