Book contents
- A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition
- Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
- A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Frontispiece
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Biggest Legal Mind We Have
- 3 Young Dicey in Oxford
- 4 Dicey the Common Lawyer
- 5 Dicey and the Art and Science of Law
- 6 Lectures Introductory to the Law of the Constitution
- 7 Dicey’s Legal Constitution
- 8 The Law of Parliamentary Sovereignty
- 9 The Supremacy of Ordinary Law
- 10 Sovereignty and the Spirit of Legality
- 11 Dicey’s Administrative Law Blind Spot
- 12 Towards a Discursive Legalism
- 13 The Constitution in the Common Law Tradition
- Appendix Was Dicey Diceyan?
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Dicey and the Art and Science of Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2021
Book contents
- A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition
- Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
- A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Frontispiece
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Biggest Legal Mind We Have
- 3 Young Dicey in Oxford
- 4 Dicey the Common Lawyer
- 5 Dicey and the Art and Science of Law
- 6 Lectures Introductory to the Law of the Constitution
- 7 Dicey’s Legal Constitution
- 8 The Law of Parliamentary Sovereignty
- 9 The Supremacy of Ordinary Law
- 10 Sovereignty and the Spirit of Legality
- 11 Dicey’s Administrative Law Blind Spot
- 12 Towards a Discursive Legalism
- 13 The Constitution in the Common Law Tradition
- Appendix Was Dicey Diceyan?
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the dozen or so years between his trip to America with Bryce and his appointment to a chair at Oxford, Dicey published prodigiously. By the early 1880s, he was a regular political commentator for the American periodical The Nation.1 He wrote on law and legal issues, sometimes directly and at other times in the course broader discussions of politics, political morality or history. His legal writings were eclectic, addressing education,2 history,3 institutions4 and theory.5 Dicey also wrote dense doctrinal material specifically for lawyers.6
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- A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional TraditionA Legal Turn of Mind, pp. 80 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020