'The book is of immense importance for anyone with an interest in the Common Law or jurisprudence, especially within a United Kingdom context.' Javier García Oliva, Law and Justice
1. Introduction; 2. The biggest legal mind we have; 3. Young Dicey in Oxford; 4. Dicey the common lawyer; 5. Dicey and the art and science of law; 6. Lectures introductory to the law of the constitution; 7. Dicey's legal constitution; 8. The law of parliamentary sovereignty; 9. The supremacy of ordinary law; 10. Sovereignty and the spirit of legality; 11. Dicey's administrative law blind spot; 12. Towards a discursive legalism; 13 The constitution in the common law tradition; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.