Twenty-First Century Perspectives on the Scholarship of AV Dicey

This book reassesses A V Dicey''s legacy in political and legal thought through the reflections of leading scholars who consider his importance not only in today''s British constitutional and legal culture but also in other foreign constitutional cultures. Every student in law and in politics, every law faculty and most legal practitioners s in the world are aware of who Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was and what he wrote. Yet, this fame does not mean that Dicey''s legacy is not controversial and debated in the present world. This book considers why Dicey''s late Victorian constitutional and political thinking is still alive. In spite of all the transformations that have taken place in public law in the UK in the last hundred years, the book argues that Dicey managed to grasp and to crystalise something of the British political identity and culture. Hence the long-lasting fire-power of his constitutional and political thinking. The book also considers that there is something even more prescient in Dicey''s writings, for the UK but also for countries that have adopted his understanding of the rule of law and/or of parliamentary government. Dicey identified one of the most fundamental political issues at stake: the nature of the relationship between public law and democracy. The book looks closely at the alliance between public law and democratic spirit. This alliance needs to be reassessed from a legal, historical and comparative perspective. This edited collection, gathering authors from different countries, from various legal systems and from diverse backgrounds, tackles this task.>

Préface
Reassesses A V Dicey's legacy in terms of political and legal thought

Auteur
Catherine Marshall is Professor in British Studies at CY Cergy Paris Université, France. Céline Roynier is Professor of Public Law at CY Cergy Paris Université, France.

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This book reassesses AV Dicey's legacy in political and legal thought through the reflections of leading scholars who consider his importance not only in today's British constitutional and legal culture but also in other foreign constitutional cultures. Every student in law and in politics, every law faculty and most legal practitioners in the world are aware of who Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was and what he wrote. Yet, this fame does not mean that Dicey's legacy is not controversial and debated in the present world. This book considers why Dicey's late Victorian constitutional and political thinking is still alive. In spite of all the transformations that have taken place in public law in the UK in the last hundred years, the book argues that Dicey managed to grasp and to crystallise something of the British political identity and culture. Hence the long-lasting fire-power of his constitutional and political thinking. The book also considers that there is something even more prescient in Dicey's writings, for the UK but also for countries that have adopted his understanding of the rule of law and/or of parliamentary government. Dicey identified one of the most fundamental political issues at stake: the nature of the relationship between public law and democracy. The book looks closely at the alliance between public law and democratic spirit. This alliance needs to be reassessed from a legal, historical and comparative perspective. This edited collection, gathering authors from different countries, from various legal systems and from diverse backgrounds, tackles this task.

Contenu
Introduction, Catherine Marshall (CY Cergy Paris University France) and Céline Roynier (CY Cergy Paris University, France) Part 1: Dicey: Follower or Legal 'Disrupter'? 1. Bentham and Dicey, Michael Lobban (University of Oxford, UK) 2. Austinian Qualms: Dicey on Sovereignty, Gregory Bligh (Sciences Po Lyon, France) 3. Dicey and Bagehot: What is Left of the Nineteenth-Century Constitution in Twenty-First Century Britain? Adam Tomkins (University of Glasgow, UK) 4. Dicey's Letters to a Friend on Votes for Women, Françoise Orazi (Lumière University Lyon 2, France) 5. AV Dicey on English Imperialism, Alex Middleton (University of Oxford, UK) Part 2: Dicey Put to the Test 6. What is Left of Dicey's Constitution? Vernon Bogdanor (King's College, London, UK) 7. Dicey in the Miller 1 and Miller 2 Judgments, Aurélien Antoine (Jean Monnet University, France) 8. The Parliamentary Executive, Timothy Endicott (University of Oxford, UK) 9. What Dicey Forgot, NW Barber (University of Oxford, UK) Part 3: Dicey Beyond Borders 10. Dicey's Theory of the British Constitution in the Light of the Home Rule Question, Thibault Guilluy (University of Lorraine, France) 11. Dicey in America: The Rule of (Administrative) Law, a Century Later, Michael Greve (George Mason University, USA) 12. Resolving Dicey's Contradictions? Rights, Freedoms and Parliamentary Sovereignty in Canada, Nicholas S Dickinson (University of Oxford, UK) 13. Dicey in Hong Kong, Richard Cullen (Monash University, Australia) Part 4: Dicey vs Dicey 14. Between Traces and Aura, Dicey's Many Lives in Contemporary Public Law Scholarship, Marie Padilla (University of Bordeaux, France) 15. Dicey and the History of Liberalism, Alan S Kahan (University of Paris-Saclay, France) 16. Dicey's Influence on English Administrative Law, Nicolas Gabayet (Jean Monnet University, France) 17. No, Really, Dicey was not Diceyan, Iain McLean (University of Oxford, UK) and Scot Peterson (University of Oxford, UK) Conclusion: The High Priest of Orthodox Constitutional Theory: AV Dicey Revisited, Mark D Walters (Queen's University, Canada)