<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Jurist, professor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Known for </Th> <Td> Authority on the Constitution of the United Kingdom </Td> </Tr> <P> Albert Venn Dicey, KC, FBA (4 February 1835--7 April 1922), usually cited as A.V. Dicey, was a British jurist and constitutional theorist . He is most widely known as the author of Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885). The principles it expounds are considered part of the uncodified British constitution . He became Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford and a leading constitutional scholar of his day . Dicey popularised the phrase "rule of law", although its use goes back to the 17th century . </P> <P> His father was Thomas Edward Dicey, senior wrangler in 1811 and proprietor of the Northampton Mercury and Chairman of the Midland Railway . His elder brother was Edward James Stephen Dicey . He was also the cousin of Leslie Stephen and James Fitzjames Stephen . </P>

Who proponded the concept of rule of law in britain