The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law

Criminal Law

The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law The Legacy of Glanville Williams

Edited by Dennis J. Baker · Jeremy Horder
Cambridge University Press February 2013

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781107020474
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
February 2013
Format
Hardback , 369 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Described by The New York Times as 'Britain's foremost scholar of criminal law', Professor Glanville Williams was one of the greatest academic lawyers of the twentieth century. To mark the centenary of his birth in 2011, leading criminal law theorists and medical law ethicists from around the world were invited to contribute essays discussing the sanctity of life and criminal law while engaging with Williams' many contributions to these fields. In re-examining his work, the contributors have produced a provocative set of original essays that make a significant contribution to the current debate in these areas.

• Contains original essays from leading names in the fields of criminal and medical law

• Will appeal to those interested in criminal law doctrine and theory, especially those interested in the theoretical debate concerning the general part and the special part of the criminal law, and criminal law's structure and function

• Explores the relationship between medical law and criminal law

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vii
Preface
ix
1     Glanville Llewelyn Williams 1911–1997: a biographical note
Peter Glazebrook
1
2     Glanville’s inspiration
George P. Fletcher
26
3     Preventive orders and the rule of law
Andrew Ashworth
45
4     The specialness of the general part of the criminal law
Michael S. Moore
69
5     Four distinctions that Glanville Williams did not make: the practical benefits of examining the interrelation among criminal law doctrines
Paul H. Robinson
106
6     Reflections on Dudley and Stephens and killing the innocent: taking a wrong conceptual path
Joshua Dressler
126
7     Intention revisited
Antony Duff
148
8     A disintegrated theory of culpability
A. P. Simester
178
9     Mental disorder and sexual consent: Williams and after
John Stanton-Ife
204
10    Sir Michael Foster, Professor Williams and complicity in murder
Sir Roger Toulson
230
11    Williams versus Kamisar on euthanasia: a classic debate revisited
John Keown
247
12    The failure of the defence of necessity as a mechanism of legal change on assisted dying in the common law world
Penney Lewis
274
13    The duty to preserve life and its limits in English criminal law
Antje du Bois-Pedain
296
14    Professing criminal law
A. T. H. Smith
328
Index
345

About the Author

Dennis J. Baker
King's College London

Jeremy Horder
King's College London

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