How criminal defences work / William Wilson -- Avoiding criminal liability and excessive punishment for persons who lack culpability : what can and should be done? / Bob Sullivan -- Prior fault : blocking defences or constructing crimes / J.J. Child -- Transfer of defences / Michael Bohlander -- Consent in the criminal law : the importance of relationality and responsibility / Jonathan Herring -- Good and harm, excuses, and justifications, and the moral narratives of necessity / Susan Edwards -- Duress and normative moral excuse : comparative standardisations and the ambit of affirmative defences / Alan Reed -- Of blurred boundaries and prior fault : insanity, automatism, and intoxication / Arlie Loughnan and Nicola Wake -- Mistaken private defence : the case for reform / Claire de Than and Jesse Elvin -- Statutory defences of reasonableness : inexcusable uncertainty or reasonable pragmatism / Christopher J. Newman.

How do they do that? Automatism, coercion, necessity, and Mens Rea in Scots criminal law / Claire McDiarmid -- In a spirit of compromise : the Irish doctrine of excessive defence / John E. Stannard -- Australia / Mirko Bagaric -- Canada / Kent Roach -- France / Catherine Elliott -- Germany / Kai Ambos and Stefanie Bock -- Islamic law / Mohammad M Hedayati-Kakhki -- The Netherlands / Erik Gritter -- New Zealand / Julia Tolmie -- South Africa / Gerhard Kemp -- Sweden / Petter Asp and Magnus Ulväng -- Turkey / R Murat Önok -- United States of America / Luis E Chiesa.