A. V. Dicey

A. V. Dicey
KC FBA
Born
Albert Venn Dicey

4 February 1835 (1835-02-04)
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England
Died7 April 1922 (1922-04-08) (aged 87)
EducationBalliol College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Jurist, professor
Known forAuthority on the Constitution of the United Kingdom

Albert Venn Dicey, KC, FBA (4 February 1835 – 7 April 1922) was a British Whig jurist and constitutional theorist.[1] He is most widely known as the author of Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885).[2] The principles it expounds are considered part of the uncodified 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.

  1. ^ Walters, Mark D. (2012). "Dicey on Writing the "Law of the Constitution"". Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. 32 (1): 21–49. doi:10.1093/ojls/gqr031.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dicey, Edward s.v. Albert Venn Dicey" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 178.
  4. ^ 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.