Glanville Williams

Glanville Williams
QC (Hon) FBA
Born
Glanville Llewelyn Williams

(1911-02-15)15 February 1911
Bridgend, Wales
Died10 April 1997(1997-04-10) (aged 86)
Cambridge, England
NationalityWelsh
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Doctoral studentsStanley Alexander de Smith[1]
Notable works
  • Learning the Law (1945–1982)
  • The Proof of Guilt (1955)[2]
  • The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law (1957)[2]
  • Criminal Law (1961)[3]
  • Textbook of Criminal Law (1978; 1983)[2]
InfluencedSir Gerald Gordon[4]

Glanville Llewelyn Williams QC (Hon) FBA (15 February 1911 – 10 April 1997) was a Welsh legal scholar who was the Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1978 and the Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College, London, from 1945 to 1955. He has been described as Britain's foremost scholar of criminal law.[5]

  1. ^ Prichard et al. 1997, p. 465.
  2. ^ a b c Prichard et al. 1997, p. 438.
  3. ^ Prichard et al. 1997, p. 437.
  4. ^ Farmer 2014, p. 263.
  5. ^ Pace, Eric (21 April 1997). "Glanville Williams, 86, Teacher and Authority on Criminal Law". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 April 2011.