A. V. Dicey
A. V. Dicey | |
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| Born | Albert Venn Dicey 4 February 1835 |
| Died | 7 April 1922 (aged 87) |
| Occupation(s) | Jurist, professor |
| Known for | Authority on the Constitution of the United Kingdom |
Albert Venn Dicey, British constitution.[3] He became Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, one of the first Professors of Law at the LSE Law School, and a leading constitutional scholar of his day. Dicey popularised the phrase "rule of law",[4] although its use goes back to the 17th century.
Biography
Dicey was born on 4 February 1835. His father was Thomas Edward Dicey,
Master in Chancery. He owed everything - the expression is his own - to the wisdom and firmness of his mother.[5] His elder brother was Edward James Stephen Dicey.[6] He was also a cousin of Leslie Stephen and Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
.
Dicey was educated at
literae humaniores in 1858. In 1860 he won a fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford
, which he forfeited upon his marriage in 1872.
He was
Queen's Counsel.[8]
He later left Oxford and went on to become one of the first Professors of Law at the then-new London School of Economics. There he published in 1896 his Conflict of Laws.[9] Upon his death on 7 April 1922, Harold Laski memorialised him as "the most considerable figure in English jurisprudence since Maitland."[10]
Political views
Dicey was receptive to Jeremy Bentham's brand of individualist liberalism and welcomed the extension of the franchise in 1867.[11][12] He was affiliated with the group known as the "University Liberals", who composed the Essays on Reform and was not ashamed to be labeled a Radical.[13] Dicey held that "personal liberty is the basis of national welfare." He treated Parliamentary sovereignty as the central premise of the British constitution.[14]
Dicey became a
Southern Ireland should become a self-governing dominion (the Irish Free State
), separate from the United Kingdom.
Dicey was also vehemently opposed to
legal system as more important than the potential injustice that would occur from following unjust laws. In spite of this, he did concede that there were circumstances in which it would be appropriate to resort to an armed rebellion but stated that such occasions are extremely rare.[17]
Bibliography
- Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (8th Edition with new Introduction) (1915)
- A Leap in the Dark, or Our New Constitution (an examination of the leading principles of the Home Rule Bill of 1893) (1893)
- A Treatise on the Rules for the Selection of the Parties to an Action (1870)
- England's Case against Home Rule (1887)
- The Privy Council: The Arnold Prize Essay (1887)
- Letters on unionist delusions (1887)
- A digest of the law of England with reference to the conflict of laws (1st ed. 1896, 2nd ed. 1908);
- later expanded in various editions of Dicey Morris & Collins
- (1 ed.). London: John Murray. 1909.
- A Fool's Paradise: Being a Constitutionalist's Criticism of the Home Rule Bill of 1912 (1913)
- Lectures on the relation between law and public opinion in England during the nineteenth century (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. 1914. Retrieved 8 March 2023 – via Internet Archive.
- The Statesmanship of Wordsworth: An Essay. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1917. Retrieved 7 April 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- Dicey, Albert V.; Rait, Robert S. (1920). Thoughts on the Union between England and Scotland. London: Macmillan – via Internet Archive.
- "England in 1848". The Quarterly Review. 234: 221–242. October 1920.
- J. W. F. Allison, ed. (2013). The Oxford Edition of Dicey. Oxford: Oxford U.P. ISBN 978-0199685820. Vol. 1 includes the first edition of Introduction, with the main addenda in later editions; vol. 2, The Comparative Study of Constitutions, provides largely unpublished lectures on comparative constitutional law, intended for a further book; both volumes have extensive editorial commentary.
Biographies
- Cosgrove, Richard A. (1980). The Rule of Law: Albert Venn Dicey, Victorian jurist. London: Macmillan.
- Ford, Trowbridge H. (1985). Albert Venn Dicey: The Man and His Times. Chichester: Rose.
- Sheppard, Stephen M. (2008). "Dicey, Albert Venn (1835–1922)". In OCLC 750831024.
References
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- ^ Dicey, A. V. (1885). Lectures Introductory to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1 ed.). London: Macmillan. Retrieved 5 April 2018 – via Internet Archive.; Dicey, A. V. (1915). Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (8 ed.). London: Macmillan. Retrieved 5 April 2018 – via Internet Archive. The 8th edition, 1915, is the last by Dicey himself. The final revised edition was the 10th, 1959, edited by E. C. S. Wade: Dicey, A. V. (1959). Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (10 ed.). London: Macmillan.
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 178.
- Bingham, Thomas. The Rule of Law, p. 3 (Penguin 2010). See Dicey's An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, p. 173.
- ^ "A Great Jurist: Professor's Dicey Career. Constitutional Law". The Times: 14. 8 April 1922.
- ^ Neale, Charles Montague (1907). The senior wranglers of the University of Cambridge, from 1748 to 1907. With biographical, & c., notes. Bury St. Edmunds: Groom and Son. p. 28. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ Williams, George (2010). Australian Constitutional Law and Theory. The Federation Press. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 26018". The London Gazette. 28 January 1890. p. 475.
- ^ Dicey, A.V. (1896). A Digest of the Law of England with Reference to the Conflict of Laws; with Notes on American Cases by John Bassett Moore. London: Stevens and Sons Limited. Retrieved 6 April 2018 – via Internet Archive.; Dicey, A.V. (1908). A Digest of the Law of England with Reference to the Conflict of Laws (2nd ed.). London: Stevens and Sons Limited. Retrieved 6 April 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Sugarman, David (1983). "Review: The Legal Boundaries of Liberty: Dicey, Liberalism and Legal Science". The Modern Law Review. 46 (1): 102–111.
- ^ Follett, R. (2000). Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law: Reform in England, 1808–30. Springer. p. 7.
- ^ Saunders, Robert (2016). Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848–1867: The Making of the Second Reform Act. Routledge. p. 161.
- ^ Stapleton, Julia (2001). Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain Since 1850. Manchester University Press. p. 27.
- .
- JSTOR 60243925.
- ^ Phoenix, Eamon & Parkinson, Alan (2010), Conflicts in the North of Ireland, 1900-2000, Four Courts Press, Dublin, Pg 33. ISBN 978 1 84682 189 9
- ^ "A. V. Dicey: Law of the Constitution". 1889. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
External links
- Portraits of A. V. Dicey at the National Portrait Gallery, London
Media related to Albert Venn Dicey at Wikimedia Commons
Works by or about A. V. Dicey at Wikisource
Quotations related to A. V. Dicey at Wikiquote- Works by A. V. Dicey at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about A. V. Dicey at Internet Archive
- Grave of Albert Venn Dicey and his wife Eleanor in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford, with biography
- Great Thinkers: Vernon Bogdanor FBA on A.V. Dicey FBA podcast, The British Academy
- A. V. Dicey at Find a Grave
