A. V. Dicey · Atlas

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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England20th Century · English

The author of the lectures, who narrates the preface and introduction and explains his method and debts.

It is an attempt to follow out the connection or relation between a century of English legislation and successive currents of opinion.

preface to the first edition ¶

In 1898 I accepted an invitation to deliver to the students of the Harvard Law School a short course of lectures on the History of English Law during the last century.

preface to the first edition ¶

The body of this work is a second edition, or a corrected reprint of the first edition, of my treatise on Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century.

preface to the second edition ¶

The Genius of the Common Law20th Century · English

A legal scholar credited with tracing the rise and decline of individualist doctrines in British legislation.

Whatever may be the ultimate fate of the doctrines it sprang from (whose rise and decline in their influence on British legislation have been admirably set forth by my friend Professor Dicey), I do not think this is such an answer as our lady the Common Law has ever committed herself to, or indeed very well could.

vii perils of the market place ¶

Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

A. V. Dicey, constitutional theorist credited with popularizing the phrase 'rule of law'.

Magna Carta has thus been truly said to enunciate “the reign of law” or “rule of law” in the phrase made famous by Professor Dicey.

iv magna carta an estimate of its value ¶