Modern Criminal Law - 9781509956142

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Modern Criminal LawEssays in Honour of GR Sullivan\nAuthor(s): A P Simester\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Hart Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781509956142, 978-1509956142\nSynopsis\nThis 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 Sullivans Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine. \n\nThe contributors examine many of the areas in which GR (Bob) Sullivans 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. \n\nTaken together, the essays are a powerful tribute to Bobs standing and influence upo.