Mark D. Walters (Ontario Queen's University)

A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition

A Legal Turn of Mind

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book will appeal to lawyers, legal historians, politicians, historians of legal thought, legal philosophers, but also anyone curious about intellectual biography and the life and times of a leading Victorian legal and political writer, Albert Venn Dicey.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 696g
• ISBN-13: 9781009241533
• ISBN-10: 1009241532
• Artikelnr.: 64223108

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Bibliography
Index.