Interests
Criminal law, evidence and procedure. Moral, legal and political philosophy.
CV / Biography
I have taught at Cambridge since 2012. I currently teach on the following courses: Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence; and Philosophical Foundations of Crime and Punishment. I am also a Deputy Director of the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice.
My research focuses on criminal law, procedure and evidence, often with a philosophical angle. I am the author of a monograph on recklessness and negligence in the criminal law that was published by Cambridge University Press, an author/editor of the leading Simester and Sullivan textbook, and my work has been published in leading journals including the Cambridge Law Journal, the Modern Law Review, and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. My published work has been cited by the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and the New Zealand Supreme Court.
I am a member of the editorial boards of the Criminal Law Review and Criminal Law Forum, and was previously a Note Editor for, and a General Editor of, the Cambridge Law Journal.
I am a member of the 23 Essex Street Academic Associates Panel, having previously been an Academic Door Tenant in the same Chambers.
Publications
Books
Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine (with Andrew Simester, John Spencer, Bob Sullivan and Graham Virgo) (Hart, 2019) 7th Edition
Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine (with Andrew Simester, John Spencer, Bob Sullivan and Graham Virgo) (Hart, 2016) 6th Edition
Articles
"Judicial Development of the Criminal Law by the Supreme Court" (2021) 41 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1-29
"The Reasonableness in Recklessness " (2020) 14 Criminal Law and Philosophy 9-29
"Reckless Manslaughter " [2017] Criminal Law Review 763-784
"The Demise of 'Parasitic Accessorial Liability': Substantive Judicial Law Reform, Not Common Law Housekeeping" (2016) 75(3) Cambridge Law Journal 550-579
"Necessity and Nicklinson" [2013] Criminal Law Review 949-965
"Wiping the Slate Clean: Reforming Scots Law's Approach to Evidence of the Accused's Bad Character" (2013) 76 Modern Law Review 346-369
"It's Only Words: On Meaning and Mens Rea" (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 155-177
"Rethinking Recklessness" 2011 Juridical Review 163-203
"Moral Legitimacy and Disclosure Appeals" (2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 205-224
"Breaking Down Brennan" 2009 Juridical Review 155-170
Book Chapters
"Tort Law, Expression and Duplicative Wrongs " in Paul Miller and John Oberdiek (ed(s)), Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 441-462
"Preparatory Offences" (with Stefanie Bock) in Antony Duff et al (ed(s)), Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 54-93
"R v Howe (1987)" (with Henry Mares, Ian Williams and Phil Handler (Eds),), Landmark Cases in Criminal Law (Hart Publishing, 2016)
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