Glanville Williams - Selected Works

Selected Works

Books

• Glanville Williams, Criminal Law: The General Part, (London: Stevens & Sons, 1953, 2nd edition published 1961).
• Glanville Williams, Textbook of Criminal Law (London: Stevens & Sons,1978, 2nd edition published 1983).
• Glanville Williams, Crown proceedings: 1947(London: Stevens & Sons, 1948).
• Glanville Williams, Joint obligations. (London: Butterworth, 1949).
• Glanville Williams, Joint torts and contributory negligence(London, Stevens & Sons, 1951).
• Glanville Williams, Salmond on Jurisprudence, edited by Williams, Glanville Llewelyn, Published:London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1947.
• Glanville Williams, The Law reform (frustrated contracts) act, 1943(London, Stevens & Sons,1944).
• Glanville Williams, Liability for animals: (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939). (This was his PhD, which was examined by Sir William Holdsworth, who thought it had been submitted for a LLD.)
• Glanville Williams, The mental element in crime (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1965).
• Glanville Williams, The proof of guilt; a study of the English criminal tria (London, Stevens & Sons, 1958).
• Glanville Williams, The sanctity of life and the criminal law (London, Faber and Faber, 1958).
• Foundations of the law of tort / Glanville Williams, with B. A. Hepple: Published, London: Butterworths, 1976.
• Impossibility of performance: by Roy Granville McElroy ... edited with additional chapters by Glanville L. Williams. (Cambridge University Press, 1941).
• Learning the Law 1969 - (present)

Notable articles (post-1978):

• Glanville Williams, Controlling the Repetitive Dangerous Offender, Medical Law Review, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (January 1993).
• Glanville Williams, Which of You Did It, Modern Law Review, Vol. 52, Issue 2 (March 1989).
• Glanville Williams, Obedience to Law as a Crime, Modern Law Review, Vol. 53, Issue 4 (July 1990).
• Glanville Williams, When Is an Arrest, Modern Law Review, Vol. 54, Issue 3 (May 1991).
• Glanville Williams, Intention and Recklessness Again Legal Studies, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (July 1982).
• Glanville Williams, Offences and Defences Legal Studies, Vol. 2, Issue 3 (November 1982).
• Glanville Williams, Innocuously Dipping into Trust Funds, Legal Studies, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (July 1985).
• Glanville Williams, The Unresolved Problem of Recklessness, Legal Studies, Vol. 8, Issue 1 (March 1988).
• Glanville Williams, The Draft Code and Reliance upon Official Statements, Legal Studies, Vol. 9, Issue 2 (July 1989).
• Glanville Williams, Victims and Other Exempt Parties in Crime Legal Studies, Vol. 10, Issue 3 (December 1990).
• Rationality in Murder - A Reply, Legal Studies, Vol. 11, Issue 2 (July 1991).
• The Meaning of Indecency, Legal Studies, Vol. 12, Issue 1 (March 1992).
• Glanville Williams, Included Offences, Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 55, Part 2 (May 1991).
• Glanville Williams, Manslaughter and Dangerous Driving, Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 56, Part 3 (August 1992).
• Glanville Williams, Recklessness Redefined, Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 40, Issue 2 (November 1981).
• Convictions and Fair Labelling Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 42, Issue 1 (April 1983).
• Glanville Williams, Alternative Elements and Included Offences, Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 43, Issue 2 (November 1984).
• Glanville Williams, Lords and Impossible Attempts, or Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes, article] Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 45, Issue 1 (March 1986).
• Glanville Williams, Oblique Intention, Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 46, Issue 3 (November 1987).
• Glanville Williams, The Logic of Exceptions, Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 47, Issue 2 (July 1988).
• Glanville Williams, Finis for Novus Actus, Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 48, Issue 3 (November 1989).
• Glanville Williams, The Fetus and the Right to Life, Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 53, Issue 1 (March 1994).
• Glanville Williams, Attempting the Impossible - A Reply, Criminal Law Quarterly, Vol. 22, Issue 1 (December 1979).

Notable articles (pre-1978):

• 'Dominion Legislation Relating to Libel and Slander'. Possibly Williams's first peer-reviewed article.
• Liability for Animals. An Account of the Development and Present Law of Tortious Liability for Animals, Distress Damage Feasant and the Duty to Fence. Article in one of the most authoritative law journals, the Modern Law Review.
• The Aims of Tort An Essay Examining the various purposes of actions in Tort, broadly: Appeasement, Justice, Deterrence and Compensation. Appeasement is promptly dismissed as archane. Justice is interwoven within Deterrence and Compensation. Williams concludes that the purpose of actions for torts of intention is Deterrence and Compensatory for other torts. In this essay, Williams also pre-emptively advocates mandatory third-party motor insurance and 'workmen insurance' (legislated as National Insurance).
• The Definition of Crime Granted that crimes are treated differently than other legal wrongs, Williams attempts to distinguish the crime from the non-criminal wrong (breach of contract, tort, etc.). He dismantles arguments based upon severity of court order (damages or punishment), social attitude or sense of morality and public vs private damages. Williams finally begrudgingly concludes that only the legal definition can consist: a crime is an act that is legally prosecuted by criminal proceedings.
• Statute Interpretation, Prostitution and the Rule of Law.
• Oblique Intention: A discussion of the merits of imposing criminal intention whereby a defendant knows that an offence (the acts of which are criminalized) will ensue but has no purpose as to that offence. E.g. a strategic bomber may propose to destroy an airbase knowing that the airbase is situated next to a school. The purpose is not the killing of children, it is recognised that children will die, it is fair to assume that if the strategic bomber could avoid killing children he would, but he goes ahead anyway. This infanticide is of oblique intent.

Published Lectures

• Proof of Guilt: Study of the English Criminal Trial 1963
• Mental Element in Crime 1966

Notice

• The preface to Winfield's 1937 textbook of tort gives recognition to Williams for proof reading at the age of 26 - already an honorary LLD.