Word: dicey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtues of law and order. They have trained great lawyers, and great legal theorists, and it was upon this that much of the pious twittering of the early post-war prophecies was based. But one of the greatest of these apostles of the rule of law, the British Dicey, was very careful to draw its circle so that international law was excluded, excluded as an inhabitant of that legal periphery more closely related to public ethics than to law. Anyone who has examined, with whatever percipience, the history of the League must commend Dicey's distinction as well drawn...