Trevor Robert Seaward Allan | |
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| Born | (1955-05-09)9 May 1955 (age 70) |
| 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 |
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| 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] (born 9 May 1955) is Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law at theUniversity of Cambridge and a Fellow ofPembroke College. He is known for challenging constitutional orthodoxy in theUnited Kingdom, particularly in his redefinition of the scope ofparliamentary sovereignty.[2]
Allan was educated atSt Albans School andWorcester College, Oxford, where he received aMA in Jurisprudence and aBCL. He also holds aLLD fromCambridge University. He wascalled to the London Bar atMiddle Temple.
He was a lecturer in law at theUniversity of Nottingham between 1980 and 1985 and joined the University of Cambridge in 1989. He was elected aFellow of the British Academy in 2016.[3][4]
His books includeConstitutional Justice: A Liberal Theory of the Rule of Law (OUP),Law, Liberty, and Justice: The Legal Foundations of British Constitutionalism (Clarendon Paperback), andthe Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution, and Common Law (OUP).[5]
Allan's view is that therule of law occupies a superior position toparliamentary sovereignty in the constitutional hierarchy. He develops this view inThe Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution and Common Law.[6]
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