A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition A Legal Turn of Mind

A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional TraditionA Legal Turn of Mind\nAuthor(s): Mark D. Walters\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107028470, 978-1107028470\nSynopsis\nIn the common law world, Albert Venn Dicey [tel] 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 .