Legal Theory Workshop: Mark Walters

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP

presents

Mark Walters
McGill University Faculty of Law

Sovereignty and Legality in the Common Law Tradition--Reassessing the work of A.V. Dicey

Friday, October 26, 2018
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park 

In this workshop, I will present some excerpts from a draft book that I have written on the British constitutional law scholar Albert Venn Dicey. Dicey is often considered to be an Austinian legal positivist. However, a careful reading of Dicey’s work shows that he sought to distance himself from Austin’s account of law and sovereignty, and in the process offered a distinctive account of constitutionalism within the common law tradition—one that may have a certain normative appeal today.

Mark Walters is the F.R. Scott Professor of Public and Constitutional Law at McGill University. He has a B.A. (Political Science) from the University of Western Ontario, an LL.B. from Queen’s University, and a D.Phil. from Oxford University. After practicing law briefly, he joined the Faculty of Law at Queen’s in 1999 where he remained until his appointment at McGill in 2016. Professor Walters researches and publishes in the areas of public and constitutional law, legal history, and legal theory, with a special emphasis on the rights of indigenous peoples, institutional structures, and the history of legal ideas.

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