Trevor Allan (legal philosopher)
Trevor Robert Seaward Allan Luton, England | |
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Occupation | Legal academic |
Known for | Views on parliamentary sovereignty and rule of law |
Title | Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law, University of Cambridge |
Academic background | |
Education | St Albans School |
Alma mater | Worcester College, Oxford |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Legal academic |
Sub-discipline | constitutional theory, civil liberties, legal and political theory |
Notable works | Law, Liberty and Justice: the legal foundations of British constitutionalism; The Sovereignty of Law: freedom, constitution and common law |
Trevor Robert Seaward Allan,
Education and career
Allan was educated at
He was a lecturer in law at the University of Nottingham between 1980 and 1985 and joined the University of Cambridge in 1989. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2016.[3][4]
His books include Constitutional Justice: A Liberal Theory of the Rule of Law (OUP), Law, Liberty, and Justice: The Legal Foundations of British Constitutionalism (Clarendon Paperback), and the Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution, and Common Law (OUP).[5]
Constitutional theory
Allan's view is that the rule of law occupies a superior position to parliamentary sovereignty in the constitutional hierarchy. He develops this view in The Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution and Common Law.[6]
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ "Stuart Lakin: The Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution and Common Law by Professor Trevor Allan: Some Preliminary Thoughts". 4 February 2014.
- ^ "Professor Trevor Allan FBA".
- ^ "British Academy announces new President and elects 66 new Fellows". The British Academy. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ^ Cambridge Faculty of Law
- ^ "Some Notes on Allan, the Sovereignty of Law".