Dr Findlay Stark

Email

fgs23@cam.ac.uk

LLB (Hons) (Aberd), LLM (Aberd), MA (Cantab (St. B.II.2)), PhD (Edin)

University Senior Lecturer

Interests

I am interested in various aspects of criminal law, procedure and evidence, and particularly how various branches of philosophy can illuminate debates within those areas of doctrine. I have side interests in tort law theory, particularly in areas that interface and overlap with the criminal law, and in more general legal philosophy/jurisprudence.

CV / Biography

I have taught at Cambridge, and been a Fellow Jesus College, since 2012. I was Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Law from 2016-2018, and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice from 2015-2019.

I am the author of a monograph - Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law (CUP, 2016; pbk. 2018) - and an author/editor of the sixth and seventh editions of Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2016; Hart, 2019). Culpable Carelessness has been reviewed by Dr Andrew Cornford (Edinburgh) ([2018] Criminal Law Review 689-691), Professor Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (Virginia) ((2018) 81 Modern Law Review 1092-1096), Professor Jonathan Herring (Oxford) ((2018) 134 Law Quarterly Review 151-153), and Dr Alexander Sarch (Surrey) ((2018) 12 Criminal Law and Philosophy 725-730). My research on attempts has been cited by the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and my work on the history of complicity has been cited by the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.

From 2014-2015, I was a member of the Academic Expert Group advising the Scottish Government's Post-Corroboration Safeguards Review (chaired by Lord Bonomy). Our report is available to read here.

I sit on the editorial boards of the Criminal Law Review and Criminal Law Forum. I was appointed as one of two General Editors of the Cambridge Law Journal in September 2019, having previously acted as a Note Editor since 2015.

I am an Academic Door Tenant at 23 Essex Street, and have given talks to practitioners on a range of topics.

I am happy to supervise doctoral students in any area of criminal law, procedure and evidence.

You can find me on Twitter: @FindlayStark.

Publications

Books

"Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine" (Hart) 7th Edition

Published:

Aug 2019

Publisher:

Hart

Link:

https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/simester-and-sullivans-criminal-law-9781509926688/

ISBN 13:

9781509926688

"Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law" (Cambridge University Press)

Published:

Dec 2018

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Link:

https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/law/criminal-law/culpable-carelessness-recklessness-and-negligence-criminal-law?format=PB

ISBN:

9781108465120

Published:

Oct 2016

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Link:

http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/law/criminal-law/culpable-carelessness-recklessness-and-negligence-criminal-law?format=HB

ISBN 13:

9781107038905

"Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine" (Hart) 6th Edition

Co-Author/s:

Andrew Simester, John Spencer, Bob Sullivan and Graham Virgo

Published:

Sep 2016

Publisher:

Hart

Link:

http://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/simester-and-sullivans-criminal-law-9781849467223/

ISBN 13:

9781849467223

Articles

"The Reasonableness in Recklessness " Criminal Law and Philosophy (Online First)

Citation:

Criminal Law and Philosophy (Online First)

Published:

Jul 2019

Link:

https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s11572-019-09501-z?author_access_token=cx48cksyS8t_cvIOcbSJ-Pe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY6yzUWIPkWbat7nlXeqfLrCvOoFGOB4k6BdzBlUZZEFgKCpz9puCeheMbJYfzNxww0nZ9SWOjk9_KW4n6riSWHfVOVZzrXbUOKzWXUpzVzxYw%3D%3D

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-019-09501-z

"Reckless Manslaughter " [2017] Criminal Law Review 763-784

Citation:

[2017] Criminal Law Review 763-784

Published:

Oct 2017

"The Demise of 'Parasitic Accessorial Liability': Substantive Judicial Law Reform, Not Common Law Housekeeping" (2016) 75(3) Cambridge Law Journal 550-579

Citation:

(2016) 75(3) Cambridge Law Journal 550-579

Published:

Nov 2016

DOI:

10.1017/S0008197316000611

"Necessity and Nicklinson" [2013] Criminal Law Review 949-965

Citation:

[2013] Criminal Law Review 949-965

Published:

Dec 2013

"Wiping the Slate Clean: Reforming Scots Law's Approach to Evidence of the Accused's Bad Character" (2013) 76 Modern Law Review 346-369

Citation:

(2013) 76 Modern Law Review 346-369

Published:

Mar 2013

"It's Only Words: On Meaning and Mens Rea" (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 155-177

Citation:

(2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 155-177

Published:

Mar 2013

"Rethinking Recklessness" 2011 Juridical Review 163-203

Citation:

2011 Juridical Review 163-203

Published:

Oct 2011

"Moral Legitimacy and Disclosure Appeals" (2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 205-224

Citation:

(2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 205-224

Published:

May 2010

"Breaking Down Brennan" 2009 Juridical Review 155-170

Citation:

2009 Juridical Review 155-170

Published:

Jan 2009

Book Chapters

"Tort Law, Expression and Duplicative Wrongs ", Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law (Oxford University Press)

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Published Date:

Dec 2019

"Preparatory Offences (with Stefanie Bock)", Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Justice (Cambridge University Press)

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Published Date:

Dec 2019

"R v Howe (1987)" in Henry Mares, Ian Williams and Phil Handler (Eds),, Landmark Cases in Criminal Law (Hart Publishing)

Publisher:

Hart Publishing

Published Date:

Dec 2016

ISBN 13:

9781849466899

Link

http://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/landmark-cases-in-criminal-law-9781849466899/

Co-Author/s:

Henry Mares, Ian Williams and Phil Handler (Eds),

"Scotland: A Plea for Consistency (with Fiona Leverick)" in Stephen Thaman, Exclusionary Rules in Comparative Law (Springer) (Ed), pp. 69-92

Publisher:

Springer

Pages:

69-92

Published Date:

Feb 2013

ISBN 13:

978-94-007-5347-1

Link

http://www.springer.com/law/book/978-94-007-5347-1

Co-Author/s:

Stephen Thaman

"Corporate Criminal Liability in Scotland: the Problems with a Piecemeal Approach" in Mark Pieth and Radha Ivory, Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence and Risk (Springer) (Ed), pp. 113-146

Publisher:

Springer

Pages:

113-146

Published Date:

Jun 2011

ISBN 13:

978-94-007-0673-6

Link

http://www.springer.com/law/criminal/book/978-94-007-0673-6

Co-Author/s:

Mark Pieth and Radha Ivory

Book Reviews

RA Duff, The Realm of Criminal Law (2019) 78(2) Cambridge Law Journal 453-456

Published:

Jun 2019

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-law-journal/article/realm-of-criminal-law-by-ra-duff-oxford-university-press-2018-viii-373-pp-hardback-75-isbn-9780199570195/DC56187E323A0FBA354F94D872312130

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197319000333

KK Ferzan and SJ Morse (eds), Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Truths: The Philosophy of Michael S Moore (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 161-163

Published:

Jan 2017

L Farmer, Making the Modern Criminal Law: Criminalization and Social Order (2016) 132 Law Quarterly Review 513-516

Published:

Jul 2016

A Ashworth, L Zedner and P Tomlin (eds), Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law (2016) 10(2) Criminal Law and Philosophy 389-394

Published:

Apr 2016

Link

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11572-014-9313-6

DOI:

10.1007/s11572-014-9313-6

M Redmayne, Character in the Criminal Trial [2015] 6 Archbold Review 9

Published:

May 2015

P Crofts, Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice (2014) 73 Cambridge Law Journal 224-228

Published:

Mar 2014

A Ashworth, Positive Obligations in Criminal Law (2014) 73 Cambridge Law Journal 220-224

Published:

Mar 2014

ME Badar, The Concept of Mens Rea in International Criminal Law (2014) 18 Edinburgh Law Review 155-156

Published:

Jan 2014

L Zedner and JV Roberts (eds), Principles and Values in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Andrew Ashworth (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 217-221

Published:

Mar 2013

ID Macphail, Scottish Criminal Evidence: Procedure and Practice 2013 SCOLAG 41

Published:

Jan 2013

F Tanguay-Renaud and J Stribopoulous (eds), Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational and International Criminal Law (2012) 16(3) Edinburgh Law Review 464-466

Published:

Sep 2012

AP Simester and A von Hirsch, Crimes, Harms and Wrongs: On the Principles of Criminalisation (2012) 21 Social & Legal Studies 259-262

Published:

Jun 2012

R Cruft et al (eds), Crime, Punishment and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff (2012) 16 Edinburgh Law Review 293-294

Published:

May 2012

RA Duff, Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law (2011) 20 Social & Legal Studies 409-412

Published:

Sep 2011

J Chalmers et al (eds), Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon (2011) 15 Edinburgh Law Review 328-329

Published:

May 2011

A Cubie, Scots Criminal Law (3rd edn) 2011 SCOLAG 27

Published:

Jan 2011

D Boonin, The Problem of Punishment (2010) 19 Social & Legal Studies 256-258

Published:

Jun 2010

Case Notes

Non-State Entrapment [2018] 10 Arch. Rev. 6-9

Published:

Dec 2018

Bringing the Background to the Fore in Sexual History Evidence [2017] 8 Archbold Review 4-8

Published:

Oct 2017

Link

https://www.archbolde-update.co.uk/PDF/2017/Archbold%20Review%20Issue%208%20PRESS.pdf

The Taming of Jogee? (2017) 76(1) Cambridge Law Journal 4-7

Published:

Mar 2017

The Mens Rea of a Criminal Attempt [2014] 3 Archbold Review 7-9

Published:

Apr 2014

Prior Fault (2014) 73 Cambridge Law Journal 8-11

Published:

Mar 2014

Necessity and Policy in R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice (2014) 18 Edinburgh Law Review 104-109

Published:

Jan 2014

Encouraging or Assisting Clarity? (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 497-501

Published:

Nov 2013

The Dairy, the Herdsman and the Gangmaster (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 247-250

Published:

Jul 2013

'A Most Difficult Case': On the Ratio of Gnango (2013) 2(1) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 60-66

Published:

Apr 2013

Link

http://www.cjicl.org.uk/journal/article/88

The Demise of the Private Prosecution? (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 7-11

Published:

Mar 2013

Reconciling the Irreconcilable? (2012) 71 Cambridge Law Journal 475-478

Published:

Nov 2012

Bad Character, Bad Answer (2012) 16 Edinburgh Law Review 420-425

Published:

Sep 2012

Killing the Unfaithful (2012) 71 Cambridge Law Journal 260-263

Published:

Jun 2012

A Perfectly Unreasonable Decision: Jenkins v HM Advocate (2012) 16 Edinburgh Law Review 86-92

Published:

Jan 2012

The Consequences of Cadder (2011) 15 Edinburgh Law Review 293-298

Published:

May 2011

The Court, Coherence and Criminal Appeals 2011 Scots Law Times (News) 51-55

Published:

Feb 2011

Bowes v McGowan: Cause for Fear and Alarm 2010 Scottish Criminal Law 721-727

Published:

Oct 2010

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Entrapment? Jones and Doyle v HM Advocate (with Fiona Leverick) (2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 467-472

Co-Author/s:

Fiona Leverick

Published:

Sep 2010

Breach of the Peace Revisited (Again) (2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 134-137

Published:

Jan 2010

Legislating the Duty of Disclosure (2009) 13 Edinburgh Law Review 493-497

Published:

Sep 2009

McInnes v HM Advocate: More Fuel for the Reformer's Fire? 2008 Scots Law Times (News) 261-264

Published:

Nov 2008

Missing MacKinlay? Capacity and the Supreme Court in R v Daley (2008) 52 Criminal Reports (6th) 278-282

Published:

Jan 2008

Reports

Post-corroboration Safeguards Review: Report of the Academic Expert Group

Co-Author/s:

James Chalmers, Fraser Davidson, Peter Duff, Pamela Ferguson, Fiona Leverick and Alasdair Shaw

Published:

Oct 2014

Link to report

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Review/post-corroboration-safeguards/safeguards-consultation

Undercover Investigations in Scotland

Published:

Feb 2014

Body / Institution:

International Academy of Comparative Law

Faculty of Law

Dr Findlay Stark

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CV / Biography

Publications

Books

"Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine" (Hart) 7th Edition

"Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law" (Cambridge University Press)

"Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine" (Hart) 6th Edition

Articles

"The Reasonableness in Recklessness " Criminal Law and Philosophy (Online First)

"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 ", Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law (Oxford University Press)

"Preparatory Offences (with Stefanie Bock)", Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Justice (Cambridge University Press)

"R v Howe (1987)" in Henry Mares, Ian Williams and Phil Handler (Eds),, Landmark Cases in Criminal Law (Hart Publishing)

"Scotland: A Plea for Consistency (with Fiona Leverick)" in Stephen Thaman, Exclusionary Rules in Comparative Law (Springer) (Ed), pp. 69-92

"Corporate Criminal Liability in Scotland: the Problems with a Piecemeal Approach" in Mark Pieth and Radha Ivory, Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence and Risk (Springer) (Ed), pp. 113-146

Book Reviews

RA Duff, The Realm of Criminal Law (2019) 78(2) Cambridge Law Journal 453-456

KK Ferzan and SJ Morse (eds), Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Truths: The Philosophy of Michael S Moore (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 161-163

L Farmer, Making the Modern Criminal Law: Criminalization and Social Order (2016) 132 Law Quarterly Review 513-516

A Ashworth, L Zedner and P Tomlin (eds), Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law (2016) 10(2) Criminal Law and Philosophy 389-394

M Redmayne, Character in the Criminal Trial [2015] 6 Archbold Review 9

P Crofts, Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice (2014) 73 Cambridge Law Journal 224-228

A Ashworth, Positive Obligations in Criminal Law (2014) 73 Cambridge Law Journal 220-224

ME Badar, The Concept of Mens Rea in International Criminal Law (2014) 18 Edinburgh Law Review 155-156

L Zedner and JV Roberts (eds), Principles and Values in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Andrew Ashworth (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 217-221

ID Macphail, Scottish Criminal Evidence: Procedure and Practice 2013 SCOLAG 41

F Tanguay-Renaud and J Stribopoulous (eds), Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational and International Criminal Law (2012) 16(3) Edinburgh Law Review 464-466

AP Simester and A von Hirsch, Crimes, Harms and Wrongs: On the Principles of Criminalisation (2012) 21 Social & Legal Studies 259-262

R Cruft et al (eds), Crime, Punishment and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff (2012) 16 Edinburgh Law Review 293-294

RA Duff, Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law (2011) 20 Social & Legal Studies 409-412

J Chalmers et al (eds), Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon (2011) 15 Edinburgh Law Review 328-329

A Cubie, Scots Criminal Law (3rd edn) 2011 SCOLAG 27

D Boonin, The Problem of Punishment (2010) 19 Social & Legal Studies 256-258

Case Notes

Non-State Entrapment [2018] 10 Arch. Rev. 6-9

Bringing the Background to the Fore in Sexual History Evidence [2017] 8 Archbold Review 4-8

The Taming of Jogee? (2017) 76(1) Cambridge Law Journal 4-7

The Mens Rea of a Criminal Attempt [2014] 3 Archbold Review 7-9

Prior Fault (2014) 73 Cambridge Law Journal 8-11

Necessity and Policy in R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice (2014) 18 Edinburgh Law Review 104-109

Encouraging or Assisting Clarity? (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 497-501

The Dairy, the Herdsman and the Gangmaster (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 247-250

'A Most Difficult Case': On the Ratio of Gnango (2013) 2(1) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 60-66

The Demise of the Private Prosecution? (2013) 72 Cambridge Law Journal 7-11

Reconciling the Irreconcilable? (2012) 71 Cambridge Law Journal 475-478

Bad Character, Bad Answer (2012) 16 Edinburgh Law Review 420-425

Killing the Unfaithful (2012) 71 Cambridge Law Journal 260-263

A Perfectly Unreasonable Decision: Jenkins v HM Advocate (2012) 16 Edinburgh Law Review 86-92

The Consequences of Cadder (2011) 15 Edinburgh Law Review 293-298

The Court, Coherence and Criminal Appeals 2011 Scots Law Times (News) 51-55

Bowes v McGowan: Cause for Fear and Alarm 2010 Scottish Criminal Law 721-727

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Entrapment? Jones and Doyle v HM Advocate (with Fiona Leverick) (2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 467-472

Breach of the Peace Revisited (Again) (2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 134-137

Legislating the Duty of Disclosure (2009) 13 Edinburgh Law Review 493-497

McInnes v HM Advocate: More Fuel for the Reformer's Fire? 2008 Scots Law Times (News) 261-264

Missing MacKinlay? Capacity and the Supreme Court in R v Daley (2008) 52 Criminal Reports (6th) 278-282

Reports

Post-corroboration Safeguards Review: Report of the Academic Expert Group

Undercover Investigations in Scotland

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