Trevor Robert Seaward Allan | |
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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]
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]
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]
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