The Legal History of Wales
Author(s) Thomas Glyn Watkin
Language: English
Genre(s): History, Law and Social Policy, Wales Studies
- September 2012 · 368 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9780708318355
- · Paperback - 9780708325179
- · eBook - pdf - 9780708325452
- · eBook - epub - 9780708326404
Watkin provides a history of the various legal systems by which Wales and its people have been governed over the last two millenia, including the civil law of Rome, the laws of the native Welsh people, the canon law of the Church and the English common law. This book shows how in each age the people of Wales have adapted to and adopted the legal traditions which they have encountered and assesses the importance of this inheritance for the future of modern Wales within both Europe and the wider international community.
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.
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 After