author
A. V. (Albert Venn) Dicey
1835–1922
Best known for shaping how generations have understood the British constitution, he helped popularize the idea of the rule of law. His writing on parliamentary sovereignty and constitutional government remains widely discussed today.
2 Audiobooks
A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893
by A. V. (Albert Venn) Dicey
England's Case Against Home Rule
by A. V. (Albert Venn) Dicey
About the author
Born in 1835 near Lutterworth, England, Albert Venn Dicey became one of Britain’s most influential legal thinkers. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and later served as Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, building a reputation as a major scholar of constitutional law.
He is most closely associated with Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885), a book that had a lasting effect on the study of the British constitution. Dicey is especially remembered for explaining parliamentary sovereignty and for giving enduring currency to the phrase “rule of law.”
Beyond Oxford, he was also connected with the early London School of Economics. Though writing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his ideas still matter because they shaped the language many readers and lawyers use when discussing constitutional government in Britain.