Albert Venn Dicey

1835 - 1922

About the Author

Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was a leading constitutional lawyer and Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford University from 1882 to 1909.

In The Library:

• author: Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (5th ed. 1897) (1885)
• author: Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (LF ed.) (1915)
• author: Lectures on the Relation between Law and Pubic Opinion during the 19th Century (2nd ed. 1919) (1905)
• author: Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century (LF ed.) (1917)

Quotations:

• A.V. Dicey noted that a key change in public thinking during the 19thC was the move away from the early close association between “peace and retrenchment” in the size of the government (1905) (25 September, 2006)