Alfred Venn Dicey was born in 1835 into the complex network of kinship that Lord Annan understandably described as Victorian Intellectual Aristocracy. He died in 1922. He was yet another Victorian valetudinarian who had a long life. He is, of course, famous for his Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, first published in 1885, three years after he returned to Oxford as Vinerian Professor.
To mark the centenary of his death, All Souls College and St Catherine’s College in Oxford are organizing a small seminar see https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/dicey-100.
It will be as follows:
| 1:30pm |
Panel 1 Dicey and the Constitution Chair: Dr Thomas Adams (Oxford) Speakers: Professor Mark Walters (Queen’s University, Ontario) Professor Alison Young (Cambridge) Dr Hasan Dindjer (Oxford) |
| 3:15pm | Coffee |
| 3:45pm |
Panel 2 Dicey in his Time and in Our Time Chair: Professor John Allison (Cambridge) Speakers: Professor John Cairns (Edinburgh) Professor Timothy Endicott (Oxford) Professor Aileen Kavanagh (Trinity College, Dublin) |
| 5:00pm | Close/Drinks |
| Exhibition of Dicey manuscripts and other material – All Souls Library |
Tuesday 4th October (St Catherine’s College)
| 8:30am | Coffee/Pastries |
| 9:00am |
Panel 3 Dicey and the Conflict of Laws Chair: Professor Jonathan Harris QC Speakers: Lord Collins of Mapesbury Dr Roxana Banu (Queen Mary, University of London) Professor Andrew Dickinson (Oxford) |
| 10:45am | Coffee |
| 11:15am |
Panel 4 Dicey and Political Thought Chair: TBC Speakers: Dr Marc Mulholland (Oxford) Professor Sally Bushell (Lancaster) Dr James Kirby (10 Old Square) |
| 1:00pm | Close/Sandwich Lunch |
| [Afternoon (Subject to Confirmation): Optional Walking tour of Dicey’s Oxford] |
