A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition by Mark D Walters

A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition by Mark D Walters

This book will appeal to lawyers, legal historians, politicians, historians of legal thought, legal philosophers, but also anyone curious about intellectual biography and the life and times of a leading Victorian legal and political writer, Albert Venn Dicey.

'In this highly engaging and elegantly written book, Mark Walters skilfully combines biography, history, constitutional law, jurisprudence and moral theory to give us a compelling account of Dicey and his thinkingHe presents a major challenge to the orthodox picture of Dicey as a legal positivist writing in the shadow of John Austin. We find in these pages a more complex and sophisticated thinker, developing an understanding of law as a discourse of reason, closer to the work of his friends Henry Sidgwick and T. H. Green. Anyone interested in the nature of common law constitutionalism, as a distinctive account of the legal order, will be gripped by this very fine book. It enables us to see why, despite the frequently dismissive criticism, Dicey's work has rightly remained so interesting and influential. We can grasp the profound implications for human freedom of constitutional law being, in its common law conception, 'ordinary' law.' T. R. S. Allan, Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law, University of Cambridge
'The book is of immense importance for anyone with an interest in the Common Law or jurisprudence, especially within a United Kingdom context.' Javier García Oliva, Law and Justice

Mark Walters is Dean and Professor of Law at Queen's University, Ontario. He is recognized as one of Canada's leading scholars in public and constitutional law, legal history and legal theory. He has taught law at the University of Oxford, and he was the F.R. Scott Professor of Public and Constitutional Law at McGill University, Canada. He has held a Sir Neil MacCormick Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, a Herbert Smith Visitorship at the University of Cambridge, and the H.L.A. Hart Fellowship at the University of Oxford.

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ISBN 13	9781009241533
ISBN 10	1009241532
Title	A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition
Author	Mark D Walters
Series	Cambridge Studies In Constitutional Law
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2022-08-11
Number of pages	478
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