Dr Matthew Dyson. Trinity College, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ (tel.) +44 (0) (fax) +44 (0)

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1 Trinity College, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ (tel.) +44 (0) (fax) +44 (0) Dr Matthew Dyson Education January 2005-May 2009: PhD (Cantab.) Interfacing Tort and Crime: the Development of Fault in England and Spain since Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, supervised by Professor David Ibbetson and part of a project, under David Ibbetson and John Bell, published as nine books on Comparative Studies in the Development of the Law of Torts (CUP) : BA (Hons.)(Cantab.) Honours and Associations 2014: Judge, University of Edinburgh Private Law Poster Competition 2013: Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences and the Humanities Early Career Research Fellow, University of Cambridge present: Fellow of the European Law Institute 2012-present: Member of the International Advisory Board of GLOSSAE, the European Journal of Legal History present: Secretary-General of the European Society for Comparative Legal History : Affiliated Lecturer, University of Sydney Law School : Member and Cambridge organiser of the European Group on Transnational Litigation, led by Antoine Garapon at the Institute des Hautes Etudes Sur La Justice, Paris present: Membership of Lincoln s Inn. Elected Lord Denning Scholar. Grants and Awards 2013: 12,700 Trinity College, Cambridge, for Comparing Tort and Crime project 2012: 6,000 from the Cambridge Humanities Research Grant Scheme for Unravelling Tort and Crime project; further 350 from Newton Trust in and 2007: Max Planck Society Scholarship (totalling 6,000). 2007: UK Foundation for Uniform Law Scholar 2007 grant of 5,000 for research into comparative law and legal history. Visiting Positions July 2011-May 2013: Anglo-American Civil Law Guest Professor, University of Göttingen. March-April 2011 and 2013: Parsons Visitor, University of Sydney Law School. January-February 2011: Faculty Visitor, Harvard Law School. June-July 2010: Universitat de València, Facultat de Dret. May-July 2008, April-August 2007: Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law, Hamburg, with Professor Reinhard Zimmermann. August 2006: Institute des Hautes Etudes Sur La Justice, Paris. June-July 2006: Universitat de València, Facultat de Dret. 2005, 2006, 2008 (5 visits): Universitat de Girona, Facultat de Dret. 1

2 Research Interests English Tort Law and Criminal Law, especially the relationship between the two. Comparative Legal History, in England, Spain, France and Germany since Recent Employment History October 2011-present: Fellow and College Lecturer, Trinity College Cambridge teaching Tort, Criminal, Roman Law and Comparative Law. October 2008-September 2011: Fellow and College Lecturer, Jesus College Cambridge. Publications Edited Books [2015] (forthcoming) Comparing Tort and Crime (CUP)* 1 [2014] (forthcoming, July) Unravelling Tort and Crime (CUP)* 2 [2013] Law and Legal Process: Substantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History (with David Ibbetson) (CUP) Articles [2014] Criminal Law Review (forthcoming, June ) Might Alone Does Not Make Right: Justifying Secondary Liability (18pp) [2014] InDret (forthcoming, June) La Respuesta del Derecho Civil a Sentencias Penales en Inglaterra y España (31pp) (2012) 3 Journal of European Tort Law : Civil Law Responses to Criminal Judgments in England and Spain * 3 [2012] CLJ : The Timing of Tortious and Criminal Actions for the Same Wrong.* 4 (2010) 2 Archbold Review 6-9: Public Order on the Internet. [2009] Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies : Connecting Tort and Crime: Comparative Legal History in England and Spain since (2007) 4 Archbold News 4-6, R. v Rahman [2007] EWCA Crim 342: Fundamental Similarity in Secondary Liability. Book Chapters [2015] (forthcoming) Comparative Legal History: Methodology for Morphology in Olivier Moréteau et al (eds) Edward Elgar Handbook of Comparative Legal History (22pp) [2014] (forthcoming, June) Tort and Crime in Mauro Bussani and Antony Sebok (eds), Edward Elgar Handbook of Comparative Tort Law (25pp) [2014] (forthcoming, July) Disentangling and Organising Tort and Crime in Dyson (ed), Unravelling Tort and Crime (CUP), [2014] (forthcoming, July) with Sarah Green, The Properties of the Law: Restoring Personal Property through Crime and Tort in Dyson (ed), Unravelling Tort and Crime (CUP), * 5 1 First multinational book specialising on tort and crime in English. 2 First book length treatment of tort and crime in England. 3 Compares the absolute role of a Spanish criminal judgment with evidential and substantiating approach in England. 4 Charting and explaining a key mechanism linking tort and crime in the last 400 years, including its important changes in 1914, 1967 and 1979 as well as how it is used today. 2

3 [2014] Divide and Conquer: Using Legal Domains in Comparative Legal Studies in Helleringer & Purnhagen (eds), Towards a European Legal Culture (Hart, Beck Nomos), [2013] Challenging the Orthodoxy of Crime's Precedence over Tort: Suspending a Tort Claim Where a Crime May Exist in Chamberlain, Neyers & Pitel (eds), Challenging Orthodoxy in Tort Law (Hart), Short Articles [2013] Symposium on Legal Domains and Comparative Law. Wheels Within Wheels: Using Legal Domains for Domestic Comparative Law (2013) 17(3) The Edinburgh Law Review , symposium ends 430 Case Notes [2010] CLJ , R. v. Thompson and Mendez [2010] EWCA Crim 516. [2006] CLJ 10-13, R. v. Rimmington; R. v. Goldstein [2005] UKHL 63. Book Reviews (2011) ICLQ , Paula Giliker Vicarious Liability in Tort: A Comparative Perspective, CUP, [2010] CLJ 678, M. Dougan and S. Currie (eds) 50 Years of the European Treaties Looking Back and Thinking Forward, Hart, [2008] CLJ , D. Beyleveld and R. Brownsword Consent in the Law, OUP, [2007] CLJ , Mark van Hoecke (ed.) Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law, Hart, [2005] CLJ , Martin Loughlin The Idea of Public Law, OUP, (2005) 1 Cambridge Student Law Review 74-78, Legrand and Munday (eds) Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions, CUP, Selected Conference Papers and Seminars March 2014 (forthcoming): UCL Private Law Conference, Comparing fields of law: understanding where the law creates and crosses boundaries. September 2013: Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Guest Seminar Per Delictum, Ex Delicto: Comparing Tort and Crime September 2013: SLS Annual Conference, Criminal Justice Section, Might Doesn t Make Right: Justifying Secondary Liability. July 2013: British Legal History Conference, Why English civil law has not developed to return specific property. February 2013: Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Understanding Legal Development: Method in Law, History and Language. November 2012: University of Edinburgh, Private Law Discussion Group, Wheels within Wheels: using legal domains to do comparative law. July 2012: Obligations VI conference, London, Ontario: Crime's Precedence over Tort: Suspension of Civil Actions where a Crime Exists July 2012: European Society for Comparative Legal History, Unearthing Spanish Unjust Enrichment: Old Roots and New Shoots for Legal Development. 5 First explanation of how criminal law has shaped the civil restoration of personal property in England. 3

4 February 2012 and June 2013: Wrongdoing in Spain : Realities, Representations, Reactions (AHRC project ) Workshop, Clare College Cambridge, two papers. January 2012: Goodhart Seminar, Cambridge, Reform, Reorganise, Repeat, Restate: First Thoughts on How Lawyers think about Change. October 2011: London Legal History Seminar, Overlaps and Undercurrents: Coordinating Tortious and Criminal Actions. July 2011: British Legal History Conference, Ask not what you can do for your country - ask what your country can do for you: the inversion of state and victim interests in the civil courts: April 2011: Australian National University, Staff Seminar, Conceptualising the Interaction between Tort and Crime. April 2011: University of Sydney, Staff Seminar, Why tort lawyers think about a claimant s illegality. January 2011: Harvard Law School, Guest Lecture, Dancing on the Border of Tort and Crime. September 2010: SLS Annual Conference, Criminal Law Section, Joint Enterprise, Disjointed Law: The Foundation of Secondary Liability for Crime. November 2008: American Society of Legal History Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Legislative Bars to Later Actions in the Common Law. March 2008: Goutelas Seminar on Comparative Criminal Law, Lyon, France (discussant). December 2007: European Legal Development Plenary Conference: The Evolution of Liability for Road and Rail Traffic Accidents in Europe. October 2007: University of Turin Comparative Law Guest Seminars, University of Turin: English Legal Methodology for Professor Michele Graziadei. September 2007: European Group on Transnational Litigation on The House of Lords and Comparative Legal Methods: The Cases of Causation in Tort. July 2007: Aktuelle Stunde (Departmental presentation and discussion on new research), Max Planck Institute, Hamburg, Outsourcing the Functions of Tort Law. December 2005: Cambridge Legal History Colloquium, Wright or Wrong: The Tort of Breach of Statutory Duty Teaching Activities July and August 2014 (forthcoming): Undergraduate Tort Law Lecture series at the University of Sydney August 2014 (forthcoming): Intensive undergraduate course in Comparative Law, University of Technology, Sydney. July 2011 and May 2013: Guest Professor for Anglo-American Civil Law, University of Göttingen, Germany, teaching English and Comparative Tort Law. June 2010 to present: Assessor in the Tripos Criminal, Tort and Roman Law Papers and European Legal History on the LLM. October 2011-present: Cambridge Comparative Law LLM seminar paper, 10 hours of leading seminars on comparative law method and substance. March-April 2011: (Australian) Tort Law JD stream, University of Sydney March : Cambridge Tripos Private Law Paper for Land Economists, lectures on tort law including vicarious liability, torts to land and products liability. October : Cambridge EU Trade Law LLM (free movement provisions). April 2005-present: Supervisor in Criminal, Tort, Roman Law (and formerly EU Law) in the undergraduate Tripos for ten Cambridge Colleges. 4

5 Administrative Roles and Positions of Responsibility March 2005 to present: Access and outreach work for Colleges and the University of Cambridge. Presentations and seminars with year olds throughout the UK on substantive legal topics and applications to study law. Groups have ranged in size from 10 to 250. Set up first selective Residential Open Day for Law and one of the first Law Essay Prizes for sixth form students. See also January 2005-present: Sole organiser of workshops and conferences for Unravelling Tort and Crime and Comparing Tort and Crime ( ) and the European Group on Transnational Litigation (2006), and a member of organising committee for the Cambridge-Poitiers Conference (2014), the British Legal History Conference (with John Baker, David Ibbetson, Neil Jones and Isabella Alexander, 2011), Cambridge Legal History Colloquium (2010), six large scale conferences for the European Legal Development Project (with John Bell, David Ibbetson and Colm McGrath, ) and a Poitiers-Cambridge conference in November October 2009-present: PhD Mentor (2 years), now LLM Mentor, Faculty of Law. August 2009-present: Convenor and co-founder of the Comparative Law Discussion Group in the Faculty of Law. Last four years have seen speakers, from England, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Scotland, China, Israel, Italy and Australia. October 2010-present: Cambridge Law Faculty representative, SLS. May 2011-July 2011: Board of Review for PhD thesis, University of Valencia. January-April 2010: Acting Dean (Discipline) of Jesus College, Cambridge. January 2009-July 2011: Secretary and draftsman to the Jesus College Statutes Working Party. Performed a complete redraft within 18 months, after the committee s previous six years of work prior to my arrival and involved covered the law of charities, employment, trusts and contract as well as archival research. The Statutes were brought into force on 1 October October : Senior Treasurer of Jesus College May Ball; founder and convenor of the Cambridge Colleges Senior Treasurers Network. Jesus annual event has a budget of 150,000 and public liability insurance of approaching 10 million. Languages English (native tongue). French (advanced reading, intermediate written and spoken). Spanish (advanced legal Spanish reading, intermediate reading, written and spoken). Portuguese, German (beginner) and Swahili and Latin (lapsed fluency). Other Relevant Skills Admissions: Interviewed in Law for three Cambridge Colleges since Mooting: Student Master of Moots and Varsity Moot team 2004; running mooting at three Colleges since. As of 2013 Mentor to Cambridge teams at the Oxford University French Law Moot (runners-up, 2013). Editing: substantive and copy-editing for German, Spanish and Italian academics at the Universities of Cambridge, Münster, Valencia, and Turin as well as the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. 5