The Legal History of Wales
Second Edition
Distributed for University of Wales Press
349 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2012
This new edition of a foundational text of Welsh legal history traces the various strands of law in Wales from its beginnings to the present day, identifying and assessing the importance of the native Welsh, Roman, and English influences to Wales's legal social identity. Wales has been served by a variety of legal systems and laws over the last two millennia. These include the civil law of Rome, which was to be the basis of the laws of much of modern Europe, and the English common law, which was to govern much of the English-speaking world. Thomas Glyn Watkin shows how the Welsh have adapted to and adopted the legal traditions they have encountered, and he assesses the importance of this inheritance for the future of modern Wales within Europe and the rest of the world.
Gwen Seabourne, University of Bristol School of Law
“This is an excellent book, which fills a definite gap. There is no comparable overarching study of Welsh legal history from the earliest times to the present. The breadth of knowledge necessary to write such a book is rarely to be found in one individual.”
R. Gwynedd Parry, Swansea University
“This authoritative, scholarly, and very readable book captures Wales’s legal identity through the course of history. It is a remarkable achievement, both in terms of depth and scope, and is essential reading not only for those interested in the nation’s legal past, but for anyone wishing to understand the context for the legal and constitutional debates of contemporary Wales.”
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Abbreviations
1. Pre-Roman Britain
2. Wales in the Roman Empire
3. The Sub-Roman Period
4. The Age of the Native Princes
5. The Norman Invasion and Edward I
6. The Later Middle Ages
7. The Tudors and the Union with England
8. The Age of the Great Sessions
9. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
10. Devolution and Legal Identity
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Preface to the First Edition
Abbreviations
1. Pre-Roman Britain
2. Wales in the Roman Empire
3. The Sub-Roman Period
4. The Age of the Native Princes
5. The Norman Invasion and Edward I
6. The Later Middle Ages
7. The Tudors and the Union with England
8. The Age of the Great Sessions
9. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
10. Devolution and Legal Identity
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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