Glanville Williams Textbook of Criminal Law

Abstract

Glanville Williams’ Textbook of Criminal Law is an exposition and evaluation of the criminal law. Now updated and rewritten for modern criminal law courses, the author, Dennis Baker, brings back the classic style of Glanville Williams’ insight in this 1500 page volume. The book contains nearly 40 chapters and covers the core topics in criminal law in great detail. The book is both theoretical and doctrinal: it is written for a common law audience and discusses not only thousands of cases from England and Wales, but also from the United States, Canada and Australia.

Originally authored by the highly respected Glanville Williams, the first two editions of the book are the most cited English textbook of criminal law in the world (see Fred R. Shapiro, The Most-Cited Legal Books Published Since 1978, 29 J. Legal Stud. 397 (2000). The book covers a very wide range of topics with a sustained and penetrating analysis that will appeal to professional lawyers and barristers in addition to students of law.

Keywords: textbook, criminal law

JEL Classification: K10, K14, K33, K40