About the lecture

In this module, we look at the actus reus of homicide offences, focusing in particular on (i) a living person in the criminal law (ii) death in criminal law (iii) what it means to cause a death (iv) what happens when the chain of causation is broken by the voluntary acts of the victim (v) controversies concerning breaks in the chain of causation.

About the lecturer

Professor Victor Tadros is a lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Warwick. His research interests are in the philosophy of criminal law, terrorism law, the criminal trials and punishment. He is currently researching just war theory, and issues in moral and political philosophy. His books include Criminal Responsibility (2005), The Trial on Trial (with Antony Duff, Lindsay Farmer and Sandra Marshall) (2007) The Ends of Harm: The Moral Foundations of Criminal Law (2011), Wrongs and Crimes (2016) and To Do, To Die, To Reason Why (2020).