DICEY, ALBERT VENN

born Feb. 4, 1835, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire, Eng. died April 7, 1922, Oxford jurist whose Lectures Introductory to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885) is itself considered part of the British constitution, which is an amalgam of several written and unwritten authorities. For this treatise he drew on his knowledge of constitutionalism in the United States as well as in Great Britain. Dicey taught law at the University of Oxford (18821909) and served as principal of the Working Men's College, London (18991912). Between 1886 and 1913 he wrote four books opposing Home Rule for Ireland. In 1905 he published his Lectures on the Relation Between Law and Public Opinion in England During the Nineteenth Century.