Glanville Llewelyn Williams lived from February 15, 1911 to April 10, 1997 and was a Welsh legal scholar who held the Rouse Ball Professorship of English Law at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1978 and the Quain Professorship of Jurisprudence at University College, London, from 1945 to 1955. He has been described as Britain's foremost scholar of criminal law.
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RoleRouse Ball Professor of English Law, University of Cambridge, 1968 to 1978; Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London, 1945 to 1955 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Place of Death Classification
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Why is Glanville Williams regarded as a leading scholar of criminal law?
He has been described as Britain's foremost scholar of criminal law and held chairs at University College London and Cambridge.
Williams, a Welsh legal scholar, has been described as Britain's foremost scholar of criminal law. He held the Quain Professorship of Jurisprudence at University College London from 1945 to 1955 and was Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1978. His Cambridge doctoral thesis in law was so rigorous that the examiner, Sir William Searle Holdsworth, asked whether it had been submitted for an LLD rather than a PhD.
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Glanville Llewelyn Williams (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.
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(15 February 1911 - 10 April 1997)
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Bridgend, Wales
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Cambridge, England
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was a Welsh legal scholar
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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
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He has been described as Britain's foremost scholar of criminal law.
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