Comparing Tort and Crime

Matthew Dyson is a Fellow in Law at Trinity College, 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, Göttingen and Utrecht, and been a visitor at Harvard as well as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.

1. Introduction Matthew Dyson; 2. England's splendid isolation Matthew Dyson and John Randall, QC; 3. The quest for balance between tort and crime in French law Valérie Malabat and Véronique Wester-Ouisse; 4. Delictual liability and criminal accountability in German law Phillip Hellwege and Petra Wittig; 5. Crime and tort in Sweden: theoretical distinction, practical connection Sandra Friberg and Martin Sunnqvist; 6. Blurred borders in Spanish tort and crime Lorena Bachmeir Winter, Carlos Gómez-Jara Díez and Albert Ruda Gónzalez; 7. Mixing and matching in Scottish delict and crime John Blackie and James Chalmers; 8. The Dutch crush on compensating crime victims Ivo Giesen, François Kristen and Renée Kool; 9. Australia: a land of plenty (of legislative regimes) Kylie Burns, Arlie Loughnan, Mark Lunney and Sonya Willis; 10. Tortious apples and criminal oranges Matthew Dyson.