Professor of Criminal Law, University of Cambridge

Findlay'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.

A list of his most significant publications is to be found below. Much of his research to date has focussed on mens rea – the fault element in crime – and particularly recklessness and negligence. His 2016 monograph, Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law was published by Cambridge University Press. His research has also appeared in leading journals including the Cambridge Law Journal, Criminal Law and Philosophy, the Modern Law Review, and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, as well as in edited collections of essays published by leading legal publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Hart Publishing, and Oxford University Press. His research has been cited by the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) (sexual behaviour evidence), the New Zealand Supreme Court (the mens rea of attempts), the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (the history of complicity liability), and in successive editions of the Scottish Jury Manual (breach of the peace).

Together with Professor Simester et al, he is an author/editor of Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine, an advanced textbook on criminal law published by Hart Publishing.

He serves on the editorial committees of the Cambridge Law Journal, Criminal Law Forum and the Criminal Law Review.

He is also an Academic Associate, at 23 Essex Street, a leading criminal law set.