Findlay Stark

LLB (Aberdeen), LLM (Aberdeen), PhD (Edinburgh)

College roles

Special Supervisor in Law

University roles

Professor of Criminal Law in the Faculty of Law

Biography

Professor Findlay Stark studied Law at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh before moving to the University of Cambridge in 2012. He is currently Professor of Criminal Law in the Faculty of Law.

Professor Stark’s research focuses on criminal law, evidence, and procedure, often with reference to work in moral, legal and political philosophy. He is also interested in legal philosophy (legal theory, jurisprudence) more generally. Much of his research to date has focussed on the ‘general part’ of the criminal law, i.e. rules and principles that apply to a range of criminal offences. For instance, much of his published work has focussed on mens rea – the fault element in crime – and particularly recklessness and negligence, and he has also published work on complicity (secondary liability for offences committed by other persons).