The sanctity of life and the criminal law : the legacy of Glanville Williams / edited by Dennis J. Baker and Jeremy Horder.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

1st edition

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Williams, Glanville Llewelyn, -- 1911-1997.

Criminal law -- Philosophy.

Law and ethics.

Criminal law -- Great Britain -- Philosophy.

Law teachers -- England -- Biography.

1. Glanville Llewelyn Williams 1911-1997 : a biographical note

2. Glanville's inspiration

3. Preventive orders and the rule of law

4. The specialness of the general part of the criminal law

5. Four distinctions that Glanville Williams did not make : the practical benefits of examining the interrelation among criminal law doctrines

6. Reflections on Dudley and Stephens and killing the innocent : taking a wrong conceptual path

7. Intention revisited

8. A disintegrated theory of culpability

9. Mental disorder and sexual consent : Williams and after

10. Sir Michael Foster, Professor Williams and complicity in murder

11. Williams versus Kamisar on euthanasia : a classic debate revisited

12. The failure of the defence of necessity as a mechanism of legal change on assisted dying in the common law world

13. The duty to preserve life and its limits in English criminal law

14. Professing criminal law.

This is a festschrift to honour the 100th anniversary of the birth of Glanville Williams. It contains 14 essays which deal mostly with conceptual issues which lie at the heart of the criminal law. The focus is principally upon the law of England.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781107020474

xiii, 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm