Alan Reed is Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) and Professor of Law at Northumbria Law SchoolMichael Bohlander is the International Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of CambodiaDr Nicola Wake is Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria UniversityEmma Smith is a Lecturer in Law, and has a number of leading outputs in the areas of Criminal Law and Evidence

'Autonomy is so vital to personal integrity that protection is paramount, yet what constitutes valid consent and what can be consented to are highly contested. This collection addresses both concerns head on. It provides a sustained, theoretically-informed, comparative analysis of one of the most troublesome areas of criminal law.'Professor Gavin Dingwall, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 'I very much welcome the publication of this rich study on the multifaceted concept of consent in criminal law. Its extensive comparative analysis provides a broad and extremely useful overview on a fundamental issue which is at the core of many debates not only before domestic courts but also before international jurisdictions.' Judge Jean-Marc Lavergne, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

• ContentsNotes on ContributorsPrefaceIntroductionPART I1 Distinguishing sex from sexual violation: Consent, negotiation and freedom to negotiateTanya Palmer2 Relational Autonomy and ConsentJonathan Herring3 The Relationship between Capacity and ConsentClaire De Than and Jesse Elvin4 Attacks on the Mind and the Legal Limits of the Seduction IndustryGavin Byrne and John Child5 Consenting to Personal InjuryWilliam Wilson6 Assault, Strangulation and Murder – Challenging the Sexual Libido Consent Defence NarrativeSusan Edwards7 Contributory Negligence and ConsentVerity Adams8 CAVEAT AMATOR: Transmission of HIV and the Parameters of Consent and Bad Character Evidence Alan Reed and Emma Smith9 Deciding to Die and Help with Dying: What Can and Cannot be Done in England and Wales.Bob Sullivan10 The ‘Higher’ Age of Consent and the concept of Sexual ExploitationAlisdair Gillespie and Suzanne Ost11 Consent: Revisiting the Exemption for Contact SportsMark James12 Finding Free Agreement: The Meaning of Consent in Sexual Offences in Scots Criminal LawClaire McDiarmid13 Consent in Irish LawJohn StannardPART II1 South AfricaGerhard Kemp2 AustraliaMirko Bagaric3 GermanyKai Ambos and Stefanie Bock4 Islamic LawMohammad Hedeyati-Kakhki5 NetherlandsAnne Postma6 New ZealandJulia Tolmie7 USAVera Bergelson8 TurkeyMurat Onök9 FranceDimitrios Giannoulopoulos and Raphaële Parizot10 Spain Mario Maraver Gómez and Manuel Cancio Meliá11 SwedenPetter Asp and Magnus Ulväng

Alan Reed is Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) and Professor of Law at Northumbria Law SchoolMichael Bohlander is the International Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of CambodiaDr Nicola Wake is Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria UniversityEmma Smith is a Lecturer in Law, and has a number of leading outputs in the areas of Criminal Law and Evidence

'Autonomy is so vital to personal integrity that protection is paramount, yet what constitutes valid consent and what can be consented to are highly contested. This collection addresses both concerns head on. It provides a sustained, theoretically-informed, comparative analysis of one of the most troublesome areas of criminal law.'Professor Gavin Dingwall, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 'I very much welcome the publication of this rich study on the multifaceted concept of consent in criminal law. Its extensive comparative analysis provides a broad and extremely useful overview on a fundamental issue which is at the core of many debates not only before domestic courts but also before international jurisdictions.' Judge Jean-Marc Lavergne, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

• ContentsNotes on ContributorsPrefaceIntroductionPART I1 Distinguishing sex from sexual violation: Consent, negotiation and freedom to negotiateTanya Palmer2 Relational Autonomy and ConsentJonathan Herring3 The Relationship between Capacity and ConsentClaire De Than and Jesse Elvin4 Attacks on the Mind and the Legal Limits of the Seduction IndustryGavin Byrne and John Child5 Consenting to Personal InjuryWilliam Wilson6 Assault, Strangulation and Murder – Challenging the Sexual Libido Consent Defence NarrativeSusan Edwards7 Contributory Negligence and ConsentVerity Adams8 CAVEAT AMATOR: Transmission of HIV and the Parameters of Consent and Bad Character Evidence Alan Reed and Emma Smith9 Deciding to Die and Help with Dying: What Can and Cannot be Done in England and Wales.Bob Sullivan10 The ‘Higher’ Age of Consent and the concept of Sexual ExploitationAlisdair Gillespie and Suzanne Ost11 Consent: Revisiting the Exemption for Contact SportsMark James12 Finding Free Agreement: The Meaning of Consent in Sexual Offences in Scots Criminal LawClaire McDiarmid13 Consent in Irish LawJohn StannardPART II1 South AfricaGerhard Kemp2 AustraliaMirko Bagaric3 GermanyKai Ambos and Stefanie Bock4 Islamic LawMohammad Hedeyati-Kakhki5 NetherlandsAnne Postma6 New ZealandJulia Tolmie7 USAVera Bergelson8 TurkeyMurat Onök9 FranceDimitrios Giannoulopoulos and Raphaële Parizot10 Spain Mario Maraver Gómez and Manuel Cancio Meliá11 SwedenPetter Asp and Magnus Ulväng

Alan Reed is Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) and Professor of Law at Northumbria Law SchoolMichael Bohlander is the International Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of CambodiaDr Nicola Wake is Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria UniversityEmma Smith is a Lecturer in Law, and has a number of leading outputs in the areas of Criminal Law and Evidence

'Autonomy is so vital to personal integrity that protection is paramount, yet what constitutes valid consent and what can be consented to are highly contested. This collection addresses both concerns head on. It provides a sustained, theoretically-informed, comparative analysis of one of the most troublesome areas of criminal law.'Professor Gavin Dingwall, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 'I very much welcome the publication of this rich study on the multifaceted concept of consent in criminal law. Its extensive comparative analysis provides a broad and extremely useful overview on a fundamental issue which is at the core of many debates not only before domestic courts but also before international jurisdictions.' Judge Jean-Marc Lavergne, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

• ContentsNotes on ContributorsPrefaceIntroductionPART I1 Distinguishing sex from sexual violation: Consent, negotiation and freedom to negotiateTanya Palmer2 Relational Autonomy and ConsentJonathan Herring3 The Relationship between Capacity and ConsentClaire De Than and Jesse Elvin4 Attacks on the Mind and the Legal Limits of the Seduction IndustryGavin Byrne and John Child5 Consenting to Personal InjuryWilliam Wilson6 Assault, Strangulation and Murder – Challenging the Sexual Libido Consent Defence NarrativeSusan Edwards7 Contributory Negligence and ConsentVerity Adams8 CAVEAT AMATOR: Transmission of HIV and the Parameters of Consent and Bad Character Evidence Alan Reed and Emma Smith9 Deciding to Die and Help with Dying: What Can and Cannot be Done in England and Wales.Bob Sullivan10 The ‘Higher’ Age of Consent and the concept of Sexual ExploitationAlisdair Gillespie and Suzanne Ost11 Consent: Revisiting the Exemption for Contact SportsMark James12 Finding Free Agreement: The Meaning of Consent in Sexual Offences in Scots Criminal LawClaire McDiarmid13 Consent in Irish LawJohn StannardPART II1 South AfricaGerhard Kemp2 AustraliaMirko Bagaric3 GermanyKai Ambos and Stefanie Bock4 Islamic LawMohammad Hedeyati-Kakhki5 NetherlandsAnne Postma6 New ZealandJulia Tolmie7 USAVera Bergelson8 TurkeyMurat Onök9 FranceDimitrios Giannoulopoulos and Raphaële Parizot10 Spain Mario Maraver Gómez and Manuel Cancio Meliá11 SwedenPetter Asp and Magnus Ulväng