Abstract
Abstract Glanville Williams is commonly regarded as the leading British academic criminal lawyer of the twentieth century, and a man who had a profound impact on the development of Anglophone criminal law theory. The foundation stone of his legacy is usually seen as his book Criminal Law: The General Part (1953). However, the theoretical bases of his approach are not explicitly articulated either in the book or elsewhere in his substantial opus. One reason for this was that he saw himself primarily as an academic lawyer, whose task was to rationalize the law. This chapter argues that while this work cannot then be regarded as foundational in a theoretical sense, it is nonetheless hugely ambitious in that that Williams’ account is nothing less than the construction of theory of criminal law for the interventionist or welfare state.
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