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Albert Venn Dicey (4 February 1835–7 April 1922) was Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford from 1882 to 1909 and then one of the first Professors of Law at the new London School of Economics. He was defined as a British Whig Jurist. He was a Liberal Unionist and published four books against the Ireland Home Rule Movement. His major books include A Digest of the Law of England with Reference to the Conflict of Laws (1896) and Lectures on the Relation Between Law and Public Opinion in England During the Nineteenth Century (1917). However, he is most widely known for his first book Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885).
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Santoro, E. (2023). Dicey, Alfred Venn. In: Zanetti, G., Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Studies in the History of Law and Justice, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19546-4_11
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