Trevor Allan (legal philosopher)
Trevor Robert Seaward Allan | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Occupation | Legal academic |
| Known for | Views on parliamentary sovereignty and rule of law |
| Title | Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law, University of Cambridge |
| Academic background | |
| Education | St Albans School |
| Alma mater | Worcester College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Legal academic |
| Sub-discipline | constitutional theory, civil liberties, legal and political theory |
| Notable works | Law, Liberty and Justice: the legal foundations of British constitutionalism; The Sovereignty of Law: freedom, constitution and common law |
Trevor Robert Seaward Allan,[1] LLD FBA (born 9 May 1955) is Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is known for challenging constitutional orthodoxy in the United Kingdom, particularly in his redefinition of the scope of parliamentary sovereignty.[2]
Education and career
Allan was educated at St Albans School and Worcester College, Oxford, where he received a MA in Jurisprudence and a BCL. He also holds a LLD from Cambridge University. He was called to the London Bar at Middle Temple.
He was a lecturer in law at the University of Nottingham between 1980 and 1985 and joined the University of Cambridge in 1989. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2016.[3][4]
His books include Constitutional Justice: A Liberal Theory of the Rule of Law (OUP), Law, Liberty, and Justice: The Legal Foundations of British Constitutionalism (Clarendon Paperback), and the Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution, and Common Law (OUP).[5]
Constitutional theory
Allan's view is that the rule of law occupies a superior position to parliamentary sovereignty in the constitutional hierarchy. He develops this view in The Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution and Common Law.[6]
References
- ^ "Allan, Prof. Trevor Robert Seaward, (born 9 May 1955), Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law, University of Cambridge, since 2003; Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge, since 1985 | WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO". www.ukwhoswho.com. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U287796. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ "Stuart Lakin: The Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution and Common Law by Professor Trevor Allan: Some Preliminary Thoughts". 4 February 2014.
- ^ "Professor Trevor Allan FBA".
- ^ "British Academy announces new President and elects 66 new Fellows". The British Academy. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ^ Cambridge Faculty of Law
- ^ "Some Notes on Allan, the Sovereignty of Law".
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