# A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition - Portail Universitaire du droit

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> Description : a.v. dicey and the common law constitutional tradition, a legal turn of mind, présentation de l'éditeur in the common law world, albert venn dicey (1835–1922) ...

## Parution

*A Legal Turn of Mind*

- **ISBN** : 978-1-107-02847-0
- **Éditeur** : Cambridge University Press

## Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
Mark Walters is Dean and Professor of Law at Queen's University, Ontario. 
 
Sommaire
1. Introduction2. The biggest legal mind we have3. Young Dicey in Oxford4. Dicey the common lawyer5. Dicey and the art and science of law6. Lectures introductory to the law of the constitution7. Dicey's legal constitution8. The law of parliamentary sovereignty9. The supremacy of ordinary law10. Sovereignty and the spirit of legality11. Dicey's administrative law blind spot12. Towards a discursive legalism13 The constitution in the common law tradition


## Métadonnées

- **Catégorie** : Parutions
- **Publié** : 2020-11-12

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