Unravelling Tort and Crime

Matthew Dyson is a Fellow in Law at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where he specialises in the relationship between tort and crime. He teaches tort law, criminal law, Roman law, comparative law and European legal history. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Girona, Valencia, Sydney and Goëttingen and been a visitor at Harvard University as well as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.

• 1. Unravelling and organising tort and crime Matthew Dyson; 2a. Policing tort and crime with the MIB: where (in the law) does personal responsibility lie? Jenny Steele; 2b. Policing tort and crime with the MIB: where (in the law) does personal responsibility lie? Rob Merkin; 3. Tort law and criminal law in an age of austerity Nick McBride; 4. Wrongs and responsibility for wrongs in crime and tort Bob Sullivan; 5. Private rights and public wrongs Robert Stevens; 6. Torts and crimes: whose wrong is it? Antony Duff; 7. Illegality's role in the law of obligations Graham Virgo; 8. Defences in tort and in crime James Goudkamp; 9. Causation in tort and crime: unity or divergence? Sandy Steel; 10. Accessory liability in crime and tort Paul Davies; 11. Tortious liability for criminal acts John Spencer; 12. Consent and assumption of risk in tort and criminal law Ken Simons; 13. The loss of the earlier identification of crime and delict in Scotland and its consequences for delict John Blackie; 14a. Properties of the law: restoring property through crime and tort Matthew Dyson; 14b. Properties of the law: restoring property through crime and tort Sarah Green.