Professor of Civil and Criminal Law at the University of Oxford. He is an associate member of 6KBW College Hill, one of the leading sets of barristers chambers in criminal law in London. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Paris - Dauphine, Cape Town, Iowa, Göttingen, Sydney, Harvard and the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law, Hamburg. His published works focus on criminal law, tort law and the relationship between the two, particularly from a comparative legal history perspective, including the edited works Unravelling and Tort and Crime (CUP, 2014), Comparing Tort and Crime (CUP, 2015), Fifty Years of the Law Commissions (Hart, 2016, co-edited), The Limits of Criminal Law (Intersentia 2018, co-edited), Regulating Risk through Private Law (Intersentia 2018) and authoring Explaining Tort and Crime (CUP, forthcoming).