{{Short description|British jurist and constitutional theorist (1835–1922)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}{{Use British English|date=June 2012}} {{Infobox person | name = A. V. Dicey | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KC|FBA|size=100%}} | image = Albert_Venn_Dicey_in_academic_robes.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Albert Venn Dicey | birth_date = {{birth-date|4 February 1835}} | birth_place = Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England | death_date = {{death-date and age|7 April 1922|4 February 1835}} | death_place = Oxford, England |resting_place = St Sepulchre's Cemetery in Walton Street, Oxford |title = Vinerian Professor of English Law | predecessor = John Robert Kenyon | successor = William Martin Geldart |spouse = Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter |parents = Thomas Edward Dicey (father)<br> Annie Marie Stephen (mother) |relatives = Edward Dicey (brother)<br>Leslie Stephen (cousin)<br>James Stephen (grandfather) | known_for = Authority on the Constitution of the United Kingdom | education = Balliol College, Oxford | occupation = Jurist, professor }} '''Albert Venn Dicey''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KC|FBA|sep=,|size=100}} (4 February 1835 – 7 April 1922) was a British Whig jurist and constitutional theorist.<ref>{{cite ODNB |author= Cosgrove, Richard A. |author-link = Richard A. Cosgrove |title=Dicey, Albert Venn (1835-1922) |publisher= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |url= https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-1005551 |date= 23 September 2004 |doi= |accessdate= 10 January 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Walters |first1=Mark D. |title=Dicey on Writing the "Law of the Constitution" |journal=Oxford Journal of Legal Studies |date=2012 |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=21–49|doi=10.1093/ojls/gqr031 }}</ref> He is most widely known as the author of ''Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution'' (1885).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/lecturesintrodu03dicegoog#page/n14/mode/2up|title=Lectures Introductory to the Study of the Law of the Constitution|last=Dicey|first=A.V.|publisher=Macmillan|year=1885|edition=1|place=London|access-date=5 April 2018|via=Internet Archive}}; {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/lawofconstitutio00diceiala#page/n5/mode/2up|title=Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution|last=Dicey|first=A.V.|publisher=Macmillan|year=1915|edition=8th|place=London|access-date=5 April 2018|via=Internet Archive}} The 8th edition, 1915, is the last by Dicey himself. The final revised edition was the 10th, 1959, edited by E. C. S. Wade: {{cite book|title=Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution|last=Dicey|first=A.V.|publisher=Macmillan|year=1959|edition=10|place=London}}</ref> The principles it expounds are considered part of the uncodified British constitution.<ref name=Chisholm>{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Dicey, Edward |display=Dicey, Edward s.v. Albert Venn Dicey |volume=8 |page=178}}</ref> He became Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, one of the first Professors of Law at the LSE Law School, and a leading constitutional scholar of his day. Dicey popularised the phrase "rule of law",<ref>Bingham, Thomas. ''The Rule of Law'', p. 3 (Penguin 2010). See Dicey's ''An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution'', p. 173.</ref> although its use goes back to the 17th century.
==Biography== Dicey was born on 4 February 1835. His father was Thomas Edward Dicey, senior wrangler in 1811 and proprietor of the ''Northampton Mercury'' and Chairman of the Midland Railway. His mother was Annie Marie Stephen, daughter of James Stephen, Master in Chancery. Per his own words, Dicey owed everything to the wisdom and firmness of his mother.<ref>{{cite journal |title = A Great Jurist: Professor's Dicey Career. Constitutional Law |journal= The Times |date= 8 April 1922 |page=14}}</ref> His elder brother was Edward James Stephen Dicey.<ref>{{cite book |last=Neale |first=Charles Montague |year=1907 |title= The senior wranglers of the University of Cambridge, from 1748 to 1907. With biographical, & c., notes |page=28 |url=https://archive.org/stream/senoirwranglerso00nealrich#page/28/mode/2up|access-date=4 March 2011 |publisher=Groom and Son |location=Bury St. Edmunds }}</ref> He was also a cousin of Leslie Stephen and Sir James Fitzjames Stephen.
Dicey was educated at King's College School in London and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with Firsts in classical moderations in 1856 and in ''literae humaniores'' in 1858. In 1860 he won a fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford, which he forfeited upon his marriage in 1872.
He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1863, subscribed to the Jamaica Committee around 1865, and was appointed to the Vinerian Chair of English Law at Oxford in 1882, a post he held until 1909.<ref name=Chisholm/> In his first major work, the seminal ''Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution'', he outlined the principles of parliamentary sovereignty for which he is most known. He argued that the British Parliament was "an absolutely sovereign legislature" with the "right to make or unmake any law". In the book, he defined the term ''constitutional law'' as including "all rules which directly or indirectly affect the distribution or the exercise of the sovereign power in the state".<ref>{{cite book |last=Williams |first=George |year=2010 |title= Australian Constitutional Law and Theory |page=2 |publisher=The Federation Press }}</ref> He understood that the freedom British subjects enjoyed was dependent on the sovereignty of Parliament, the impartiality of the courts free from governmental interference and the supremacy of the common law. In 1890, he was appointed Queen's Counsel.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26018 |date=28 January 1890 |page=475}}</ref>
He later left Oxford and went on to become one of the first Professors of Law at the then-new London School of Economics. He published in 1896 his ''Conflict of Laws''.<ref>{{cite book |last= Dicey |first=A.V. |title=A Digest of the Law of England with Reference to the Conflict of Laws; with Notes on American Cases by John Bassett Moore|place= London |publisher= Stevens and Sons Limited |year= 1896|url=https://archive.org/stream/adigestlawengla01dicegoog#page/n5/mode/2up |access-date=6 April 2018 |via= Internet Archive}}; {{cite book |last= Dicey |first=A.V. |title=A Digest of the Law of England with Reference to the Conflict of Laws |place= London |publisher= Stevens and Sons Limited |edition= 2nd |year= 1908 |url=https://archive.org/stream/adigestlawengla00dicegoog#page/n3/mode/2up |access-date=6 April 2018 |via= Internet Archive}}</ref> Upon his death on 7 April 1922, Harold Laski memorialised him as "the most considerable figure in English jurisprudence since Maitland."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sugarman |first1=David |title=Review: The Legal Boundaries of Liberty: Dicey, Liberalism and Legal Science |journal=The Modern Law Review |date=1983 |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=102–111}}</ref>
==Political views== [[File:Albert Venn Dicey.jpg|thumb|upright|An undated photograph of Dicey from the Harvard Law School Library's Legal Portrait Collection]]
Dicey was receptive to Jeremy Bentham's brand of individualist liberalism and welcomed the extension of the franchise in 1867.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Follett |first1=R. |title=Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law: Reform in England, 1808–30 |date=2000 |publisher=Springer |page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Saunders |first1=Robert |title=Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848–1867: The Making of the Second Reform Act |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |page=161}}</ref> He was affiliated with the group known as the "University Liberals", who composed the ''Essays on Reform'' and was not ashamed to be labelled a Radical.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stapleton |first1=Julia |title=Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain Since 1850 |date=2001 |publisher=Manchester University Press |page=27}}</ref> Dicey held that "personal liberty is the basis of national welfare." He treated Parliamentary sovereignty as the central premise of the British constitution.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Weill |first1=Rivka |title=Dicey Was Not Diceyan |journal=The Cambridge Law Journal |date=2003 |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=474–493|doi=10.1017/S000819730300638X |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1737325_code393642.pdf?abstractid=1737325&mirid=1 }}</ref>
A member of the Liberal Unionist Party, Dicey was a strong opponent of the Irish Home Rule movement, writing and speaking against it extensively from 1886 until shortly before his death, advocating that no concessions be made to Irish nationalism in relation to the government of any part of Ireland as an integral part of the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/pss/60243925|jstor=60243925 |title=Speech of Professor Dicey, at the Liberal Unionists' meeting, in the Music Hall, Birkenhead, December 10, 1887 |last1=Dicey |first1=Albert Venn |year=1887 |publisher="Daily Post" and "Echo" Offices }}</ref> In March 1914 Dicey stated that if a Home Rule Bill was passed it "would be a political crime lacking all moral and constitutional authority...the voice of the present House of Commons was not the voice of the nation."<ref>Phoenix, Eamon & Parkinson, Alan (2010), ''Conflicts in the North of Ireland, 1900–2000'', Four Courts Press, Dublin, p. 33. {{ISBN|978-1846821899}}</ref> He was thus bitterly disillusioned by the Anglo-Irish Treaty agreement in 1921 that Southern Ireland should become a self-governing dominion (the Irish Free State), separate from the United Kingdom.
Dicey was also vehemently opposed to women's suffrage, proportional representation (while acknowledging that the existing first-past-the-post system was not perfect), and to the notion that citizens have the right to ignore unjust laws. Dicey viewed the necessity of establishing a stable legal system as more important than the potential injustice that would occur from following unjust laws. In spite of this, he did concede that there were circumstances in which it would be appropriate to resort to an armed rebellion but stated that such occasions are extremely rare.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontos04dicegoog|title=A.V. Dicey: Law of the Constitution |year=1889 |access-date=12 April 2011}}</ref>
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(1830-1914) |journal= Law Quarterly Review |pages= 96–105 |volume= 31 |issue= |date= 1915 |url = https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/lqr31&id=112 |via= Heinonline}} *{{cite journal |title= Development of Administrative Law in England |journal= Law Quarterly Review |volume= 31 |issue= 2 |pages= 148–153 |date=1915 |url= https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/lmagc5&id=386 |via= Heinonline}} *{{cite journal |title= The New English War Cabinet as a Constitutional Experiment |journal= Harvard Law Review |volume = 30 |issue= 8 |date= June 1917 |pages= 781–791 |doi= 10.2307/1327952 |url= https://doi.org/10.2307/1327952 |jstor= 132795 |accessdate= 10 January 2026|url-access= subscription }} * {{cite book |title= The Statesmanship of Wordsworth: An Essay |year= 1917 |place= Oxford |publisher= Clarendon Press |url= https://archive.org/stream/statesmanshipofw00dicerich#page/n5/mode/2up |access-date= 7 April 2018 |via= Internet Archive}} *{{cite journal |title= Reviewed Work: The Position of Foreign Corporations in American Constitutional Law by Gerard Carl Henderson |journal= Harvard Law Review |volume = 32 |issue= 7 |date= May 1919 |pages= 864–866 |doi= 10.2307/1327769 |url= https://doi.org/10.2307/1327769 |jstor= 1327769 |accessdate= 10 January 2026|url-access= subscription }} * {{cite book |author= Dicey, Albert V. |author2= Rait, Robert S. |author2-link= Robert Rait |title= Thoughts on the Union between England and Scotland |place= London |publisher= Macmillan |url=https://archive.org/details/thoughtsonunionb00diceuoft/page/n7/mode/2up |year= 1920 |via= Internet Archive}} * {{cite journal|title=England in 1848|journal=The Quarterly Review|date=October 1920|volume=234|pages=221–242|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044092529510;view=1up;seq=245}} *{{cite book |title= Memorials of Albert Venn Dicey: Being Chiefly Letters and Diaries |editor = Rait, Robert S. |editor-link= Robert Rait|place= London |publisher= Macmillan |year= 1925}} * {{cite book|title=The Oxford Edition of Dicey|editor=J.W.F. Allison|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford U.P.|date=2013|isbn=978-0199685820}}, vol. 1 includes the first edition of ''Introduction'', with the main addenda in later editions; vol. 2, ''The Comparative Study of Constitutions'', provides largely unpublished lectures on comparative constitutional law, intended for a further book; both volumes have extensive editorial commentary. *{{cite book |editor= Conti, Gregory |title= Albert Venn Dicey Writings on Democracy and Referendum |place= |publisher= Cambridge University Press |year=2023 |doi= 10.1017/9781108955799 |isbn= 978-1-108-95579-9}}
==Biographies== * {{cite book | last = Cosgrove | first = Richard A. | title = The Rule of Law: Albert Venn Dicey, Victorian jurist | year = 1980 | publisher = Macmillan | location = London }} *{{cite ODNB |author= Cosgrove, Richard A. |author-link = Richard A. Cosgrove |title=Dicey, Albert Venn (1835-1922) |publisher= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |url= https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-1005551 |date= 23 September 2004 |doi= |accessdate= 13 January 2026}} * {{cite book | last = Ford | first = Trowbridge H. | title = Albert Venn Dicey: The Man and His Times | year = 1985 | publisher = Rose | location = Chichester }} * {{cite encyclopedia |last=Sheppard |first=Stephen M. |editor-first=Ronald |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-link=Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |title= Dicey, Albert Venn (1835–1922)|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC |year=2008 |publisher= Sage; Cato Institute |location= Thousand Oaks, CA |doi= 10.4135/9781412965811.n77|isbn= 978-1412965804 |oclc=750831024| lccn = 2008009151 |pages=123–134 |url-access=subscription }} * {{cite book |author = R.F.V.N. |chapter = Dicey, Albert Venn (4.2.1835 - 7.4.1922) |title=Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law |editor = Simpson, A. W. Brian |editor-link= A. W. B. Simpson|year=1984 |place=London |publisher=Butterworths |isbn=978-0-406-51657-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_n2e7|url-access=registration |pages = [https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_n2e7/page/148/mode/2up?view=theater 148]–149 |via=Internet Archive}}
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