Description
This book brings together leading scholars from the next generation of UK criminal lawyers to celebrate the work of GR Sullivan, Emeritus Professor at University College London, in the year of his retirement from writing Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine.
The contributors examine many of the areas in which GR (Bob) Sullivan’s own writing has been influential, ranging from general doctrines such as causation and culpability, across specific offences like theft and fraud, through defences including necessity and insanity; before turning, finally, to matters affecting the criminal process, notably challenges to the doctrine of precedent in criminal law.
Taken together, the essays are a powerful tribute to Bob’s standing and influence upon modern criminal law. At the same time, individually they make sophisticated contributions to our understanding of some pressing issues in contemporary criminal law. The essays illustrate the increasing importance of theoretical argument in modern criminal law, as well as the manner in which doctrinal debates have become interwoven with arguments about criminalisation norms. The resulting collection is thus a tribute also to the character of modern academic criminal law, a character that Bob and the writers of his generation did so much to develop.
Table of Contents
1. Rationalising Criminal Fault
Findlay Stark (University of Cambridge, UK)
2. Free, Deliberate and Informed?
Andrew Simester (King’s College London, UK; National University of Singapore)
3. Outcome Responsibility and Criminal Liability: Towards a Differentiated Model
Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge, UK)
4. Negating Responsibility for the Actus Reus
Mark Dsouza (University College London, UK)
Part II – Substantive Offences
5. On the Interests Protected by Fraud Offences
Jeremy Horder (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
6. The Crime of Theft: Harm, Property and Dishonesty
John Stanton-Ife (King’s College London, UK)
Part III – Defences
7. On the Nature of Justifications
James Edwards (University of Oxford, UK)
8. Not Guilty by Reasons Other than Insanity
Claire Hogg (University College London, UK) and John Child (University of Birmingham, UK)
9. Withdrawal as a Ground for Excluding Criminal Liability
Beatrice Krebs (University of Reading, UK)
10. Emergencies, Necessity and the Prevention of Crime
Henry Mares (King’s College London, UK)
Part IV – The Criminal Process
11. Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Preventive Justice
Jennifer Collins (University of Bristol, UK)
12. Title TBC
Paul Roberts (University of Nottingham, UK)
13. The Doctrine of Precedent in English Criminal Cases
Grant Lamond (University of Oxford, UK)
