About the lecture

In this course, Professor John Child (University of Birmingham) explores the rules of criminal law. In the first module, we introduce substantive criminal law. In the second module, we look at the sources of criminal law. In the third module, we examine offences, before turning to defences in the fourth module. In the fifth module, we look at the burden and standard of proof in criminal law. Finally, in the sixth module, we look at the subjects of the criminal law, including who is excluded from criminal liability.

About the lecturer

Professor John Child is specialises in criminal law, doctrine and theory, and the relationship between criminal law and neuroscience. He co-authors a leading criminal law textbook: Smith, Hogan and Ormerod’s Essentials of Criminal Law, and co-directs the Criminal Law Reform Now Network. He has published widley in internal structuring of offences and defences within the general part of criminal law theory. He has also recorded a wide range of material for textbook supplementaries and other educational purposes.