id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6312 A. V. Dicey - Wikipedia .html text/html 2191 315 69 V. Dicey, was a British Whig jurist and constitutional theorist.[1] He is most widely known as the author of Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885).[2] The principles it expounds are considered part of the uncodified British constitution.[3] He became Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, one of the first Professors of Law at the London School of Economics, and a leading constitutional scholar of his day. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1863, subscribed to the Jamaica Committee around 1865, and was appointed to the Vinerian Chair of English Law at Oxford in 1882, a post he held until 1909.[3] 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. See Dicey's An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, p. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6312.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6312.txt