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Albert Venn "A. V." Dicey (4 February 1835 – 7 April 1922) was a British jurist and constitutional theorist, and was the younger brother of Edward Dicey. He is most widely known as the author of ''Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution'' (1885). The principles it expounds are considered part of the uncodified British constitution. He was a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, and became Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford and a leading constitutional scholar of his day. Dicey popularised the phrase "rule of law",〔Bingham, Thomas. ''The Rule of Law'', page 3 (Penguin 2010). See Dicey's ''An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution'', p. 173.〕 although its use goes back to the 17th century. ==Biography== His father was Thomas Edward Dicey, senior wrangler in 1811 and proprietor of the ''Northampton Mercury'' and Chairman of the Midland Railway. His brother was Edward James Stephen Dicey. He was also the cousin of Leslie Stephen and James Fitzjames Stephen. He became a lawyer in 1863, subscribed to the Jamaica Committee around 1865, and was appointed to the Vinerian Chair of English Law at Oxford in 1882. 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 UK 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". 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. He later left Oxford and went on to become one of the first Professors of Law at the then new London School of Economics. There he published in 1896 his ''Conflict of Laws''.〔A. V. Dicey: (''A digest of the law of England with reference to the conflict of laws'' ) (2nd ed., 1908)〕 As extensively shown in the work of Professor Matt Qvortrup, A.V. Dicey was also one of the first supporters of the use of referendums in the United Kingdom despite his views on parliamentary supremacy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A. V. Dicey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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