This 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 Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine.
The contributors examine many of the areas in which GR (Bob) Sullivan's 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.
Taken together, the essays are a powerful tribute to Bob's standing and influence upon modern criminal law. At the same time, individually they make sophisticated contributions to our understanding of some pressing issues in contemporary criminal law. The essays illustrate the increasing importance of theoretical argument in modern criminal law, as well as the manner in which doctrinal debates have become interwoven with arguments about criminalisation norms. The resulting collection is thus a tribute also to the character of modern academic criminal law, a character that Bob and the writers of his generation did so much to develop.

AP Simester is Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law at King's College London, UK, and Amaladass Professor of Criminal Justice at the National University of Singapore.

Part I: The General Part
1. Free, Deliberate and Informed? AP Simester (National University of Singapore)
2. Against Knowledge (in the Criminal Law), Findlay Stark (University of Cambridge, UK)
3. Why Outcomes Matter (And How They Do), Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge, UK)
4. Why Ivey was a Mistake (aka Two Times I Flirted with Theft), Mark Dsouza (University College London, UK)
Part II: Substantive Offences
5. Criminal Fraud and the Toleration of False Political Speech, Jeremy Horder (London School of Economics, UK)
6. Where is the Harm in Theft? John Stanton-Ife (King's College London, UK)
Part III: Defences
7. Not Guilty by Reasons Other than Insanity, Claire Hogg (University College London, UK) and JJ Child (University of Birmingham, UK)
8. Withdrawal from Attempts? Beatrice Krebs (University of Reading, UK)
9. Emergencies, Necessity and the Prevention of Crime, Henry Mares (King's College London, UK)
Part IV: Criminal Jurisprudence
10. What Does a Conceptual Argument Prove: Sullivan's Presumptive Conduct on Criminal Trial, Paul Roberts (University of Nottingham, UK)
11. Why Fraud Prevention is Relevant to Criminal Law Theorists, Jennifer Collins (University of Bristol, UK)
12. Precedent in English Criminal Law, Grant Lamond (University of Oxford, UK)