David Hughes Parry

R. Parry

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Sir David Hughes Parry QC was probably one of the most powerful and influential Welsh jurists of the twentieth century. As Professor of English Law at the University of London, he laid the foundations for the development of the Department of Law at the London School and Economics into a centre of excellence in legal scholarship. As founding Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, he created a vehicle that would raise the standing of English legal scholarship on the global stage. An astute operator in the world of university politics, he became Vice-Chancellor and, later, Chairman of the Court of the University of London, and served as Vice-Chairman of the powerful University Grants Committee. For the first time, this study provides a holistic account of his career as a lawyer, legal scholar, university policy-maker and law reformer. Using a range of primary and secondary sources, it locates his place in the history of legal scholarship and establishes his identity as a jurist. It also considers his distinctive and sometimes controversial contribution to the public life of Wales, and in particular its language, culture and institutions. The portrait that emerges is of a man whose energies were divided equally between his legal-academic interests and his devotion to serving the causes of his native Wales. This biography demonstrates that it was through his roles as a public intellectual and legal advisor to the Welsh nation that Hughes Parry bequeathed his most important and enduring legacies.
Chapter One: 'From the village of Llanaelhaearn' Chapter Two: The Path to Power Chapter Three: Law and Economics Chapter Four: Academic Leadership Chapter Five: The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Chapter Six: Welsh Affairs Chapter Seven: The Aberystwyth Controversy Chapter Eight: The Challenges of Federalism Chapter Nine: The Legal Status of the Welsh Language Chapter Ten: 'Teach me good judgment' Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Miscellaneous

Sujets

• Legal History
• Droit et juridique
• Law
• Wales

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 30 juillet 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708322932
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 14 Mo

Extrait

David Hughes Parry

David Hughes Parry

A Jurist in Society

R. Gwynedd Parry

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 2010

© R. Gwynedd Parry, 2010

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ISBN 9780708322925 eISBN 9780708322932

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Index

Bibliography

Contents

10‘Teach Me Good Judgment’  Notes

Acknowledgements

Law and Economics Academic Leadership The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

‘From the Village of Llanaelhaearn’ The Path to Power

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Preface Abbreviations

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3 4 5

6 7 8 9

Welsh Affairs The Aberystwyth Controversy The Challenges of Federalism The Legal Status of the Welsh Language

Acknowledgements

HISBOOK has been made possible with the support and encouragement of a T number of individuals and organizations which I must acknowledge. I would like to thank Professors David Sugarman, David Milman, Thomas Glyn Watkin, Iwan R. Davies and Sir Ross Cranston for their helpful sugges tions, advice and comments on earlier versions of the text and at various stages in the book’s development. I am particularly grateful to the Reverend Professor J. Tudno Williams, whose mother was a sister of Sir David Hughes Parry, for his support and advice and for his permission to include a number of family photographs in his possession in this book. I am grateful to the editors of theWelsh History Reviewfor their permis sion to include in chapter 8 of this book an amended version of an article I published in the journal as ‘Federalism and university governance: Welsh experiences in New Zealand’,Welsh History Review,23 (1) (2006), 123–57. I am also grateful to the editor of theTransactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorionpermission to include in chapter 3 an amended ver for sion of a paper previously published as ‘Sir David Hughes Parry as lawyer and economist’,Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 13 (2007), 193–212. I have also benefited from informal conversations with a number of peo ple who, during my researches for this book, gave advice or made suggestions which were later explored and investigated. I am particularly grateful for con versations with Lord Morris of Aberavon and for correspondence with the late Professor J. A. G. Griffith. I am indebted to staffs and archivists at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London, the Senate House Library of the University of London and the British Library of Political and Economic Science of the London School of Economics and Political Science for their generous assistance in allowing me to access the archival materials which have provided the foundations for this biography.