A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition

Mark D. Walters

ISBN 10: 1009241532 / ISBN 13: 9781009241533

Edité par Cambridge University Press, GB, 2022

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In the common law world, Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) is known as the high priest of orthodox constitutional theory, as an ideological and nationalistic positivist. In his analytical coldness, his celebration of sovereign power, and his incessant drive to organize and codify legal rules separate from moral values or political realities, Dicey is an uncanny figure. This book challenges this received view of Dicey. Through a re-examination of his life and his 1885 book Law of the Constitution, the high priest Dicey is defrocked and a more human Dicey steps forward to offer alternative ways of reading his canonical text, who struggled to appreciate law as a form of reasoned discourse that integrates values of legality and authority through methods of ordinary legal interpretation. The result is a unique common law constitutional discourse through which assertions of sovereign power are conditioned by moral aspirations associated with the rule of law.

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• Titre: A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, GB
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1009241532
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781009241533
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 638 grammes

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In the common law world, Albert Venn Dicey (1835–1922) is known as the high priest of orthodox constitutional theory, as an ideological and nationalistic positivist. In his analytical coldness, his celebration of sovereign power, and his incessant drive to organize and codify legal rules separate from moral values or political realities, Dicey is an uncanny figure. This book challenges this received view of Dicey. Through a re-examination of his life and his 1885 book Law of the Constitution, the high priest Dicey is defrocked and a more human Dicey steps forward to offer alternative ways of reading his canonical text, who struggled to appreciate law as a form of reasoned discourse that integrates values of legality and authority through methods of ordinary legal interpretation. The result is a unique common law constitutional discourse through which assertions of sovereign power are conditioned by moral aspirations associated with the rule of law.

À propos de l'auteur

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.