Thomas Glyn Watkin

Thomas Glyn Watkin

The Reverend Professor Thomas Glyn Watkin was born in the village of Cwmparc in the Rhondda Valley in 1952. He is the first person to be appointed to the post of First Welsh Legislative Counsel and took up his post in April 2007.

First Welsh Legislative Counsel

Working within the Office of the First Welsh Legislative Counsel, part of the Legal Services Department of the Welsh Assembly Government, Professor Watkin will have responsibility for the drafting of the Welsh Assembly Government's legislative programme following the implementation of the Government of Wales Act 2006.

Education

He studied Law at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he was Oades and Stafford Scholar (1971-1974). He obtained the degrees of BA (1974), BCL (1975) and MA (1977) from the University of Oxford and was called to the bar by the Middle Temple (1976).

Professional career

From 1975 until 2004, he was successively lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and professor in the Law School at the University of Wales, Cardiff, as well as acting as Legal Assistant to the Governing Body of the Church in Wales from 1981 until 1998. He was appointed foundation Professor of Law at the University of Wales, Bangor in 2004.

Known mainly for his work in legal history and civil law, Professor Watkin is a council member of the Selden Society, Secretary and Treasurer of the Welsh Legal History Society] and a member of the editorial board of the "Journal of Legal History". He was elected to the Academy of Private Lawyers of Milan and Pavia in 2002, and is an ordained priest in the Church in Wales.

Publications

His principal publications include "The Nature of Law" (1980), "The Italian Legal Tradition" (1998) and "An Historical Introduction to Modern Civil Law" (1999), and, as editor, "Legal Record and Historical Reality" (1989), "The Europeanization of Law" (1997), "Legal Wales: Its Past; Its Future" (2001), "The Trial of Dic Penderyn and Other Essays" (2003) and "Y Cyfraniad Cymreig" (2005). His book, "'Wales: An Introduction to its Legal History", was published in the autumn of 2005.

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