After graduating from Auckland and Oxford, Andrew Simester started his academic career at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He moved to the National University of Singapore in 2006 and, since 2015, concurrently holds the Edmund-Davies Chair in Criminal Law at King's College London. Professor Simester received an Honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University in 2019, awarded in recognition of his writings in criminal law and theory. He has published widely in these areas, and is also a lead author of two major treatises, Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law in the UK and Principles of Criminal Law in New Zealand.

• Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Part I: Groundwork 1: Crime, Responsibility, Culpability, and Wrongdoing 2: Structure and Nomenclature 3: Five Functions, and Two Kinds, of Mens Rea Part II: Responsibility 4: Moral and Ascriptive Responsibilities 5: Causation 6: Why Not-doings are Special 7: Complicity 8: Moral Responsibility and Voluntariness 9: (Non-volitional) Action Part III: Culpability and Wrongdoing 10: Prolegomenon to Part III 11: A Pluralistic Theory of Culpability 12: Being Unreasonable 13: Strict and Constructive Liability 14: Outcome and other Luck 15: Distinguishing Intended from Advertent Action 16: On the Moral Distinction between Intention and Advertence 17: Distinguishing Defences 18: Unpacking Justifications 19: Unpacking Excuses: Hybrids and Mistakes

Fundamentals of Criminal Law is definitely written for the unashamed criminal law geeks, myself included. It is an in-depth reading and analysis of criminal legal doctrine. In keeping with his interest in theory, Simester seeks to explore the philosophical underpinnings of the criminal legal categories of actus reus, mens rea, and defenses. To a certain extent, the book thus follows a classic structure of criminal law.