Albert Venn Dicey lived from 1835 to 1922. He was a student at Oxford in the late 1850s and held a college fellowship at Oxford from 1860 until his marriage to Elinor Bonham Carter in 1872. He was a barrister who served as counsel to the Inland Revenue before returning to Oxford as the Vinerian Professor of English Law in 1882. In addition to publishing works on constitutional law and conflict of laws, he advocated a series of political positions that became increasingly unpopular during his lifetime, arguing against female suffrage, Irish home rule, and the rise of the modern welfare state.1 Dicey could be politically dogmatic and uncompromising. His colleague at Oxford, the Professor of Jurisprudence Sir Frederick Pollock, observed that Dicey and his lifelong friend, James Bryce, who would serve as cabinet minister and ambassador to the United States, were ‘university Liberals together’, but Dicey’s ideas ‘remained fixed on all material points while Bryce’s mind was open to the last’.2 Dicey conceded that he never ceased to be a ‘Mid-Victorian’.3