Dear Colleagues:

Just a short note to draw your attention to the publication of a new book by ODGer Matthew Dyson entitled, Comparing Tort and Crime. This edited collection is published by CUP, and further details are included below.

The fields of tort and crime have much in common in practice, particularly in how they both try to respond to wrongs and regulate future behaviour. Despite this commonality in fact, fascinating
difficulties have hitherto not been resolved about how legal systems co-ordinate (or leave wild) the border between tort and crime. What is the purpose of tort law and criminal law, and how do you tell the
difference between them? Do criminal lawyers and civil lawyers reason and argue in the same way? Are the rules on capacity, consent, fault, causation, secondary liability or defences the same in tort as in crime? How do the rules of procedure operate for each area? Are there points of overlap? When, how and why do tort and crime interact? This volume systematically answers these and other questions for eight legal systems: England, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Scotland, the Netherlands and Australia. It also contains a methodological introduction and a detailed comparative conclusion. One point of
methodology which might be of interest is that each chapter was co-authored by at least one criminal and one civil specialist, in some cases with further expertise, such as procedural, historical,
practitioner and judicial. Even for those not as interested in civilian systems, there are 100,000 words setting out in detail the Relationship between tort and crime in England, Scotland and Australia plus a
comparative conclusion.

To celebrate the launch, CUP are offering list members a 20% discount on both Comparing Tort and Crime, and the first in the series, Unravelling
Tort and Crime (focusing on English law, and launched at the Obligations VII conference in Hong Kong in 2014). Simply enter "DYSON15" at the
check-out:
www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/law/private-law/comparing-tort-and-crime-learning-across-and-within-legal-systems

Best regards,

Duncan