This book provides a complement to Dicey's The Law of the Constitution. These largely unpublished comparative constitutional lectures were written for different versions of a comparative constitutional book that Dicey began but did not finish prior to his death in 1922. The lectures were a pioneering venture into comparative constitutionalism and reveal an approach to legal education broader than Dicey is widely understood to have taken. Topics discussed include English, French, American, and Prussian constitutionalism; the separation of powers; representative government; and federalism. The volume begins with an editorial introduction examining the implications of these comparative lectures and Dicey's early foray into comparative constitutionalism for his general constitutional thought, and the kinds of response it has elicited.

"The Introduction to [this] volume... allows us to know a lesser known side of Dicey, who is here made known as a pioneering lecturer in comparative constitutional law studies... The editor has the great merit... of bringing out a significant portion of the work of Dicey that remained in the shadows, not without having conferred a systematic layout to materials that... inevitably remain fragmentary and incomplete... The work of the great English jurist, especially developed in unpublished materials compiled in [this] volume, is presented to the reader as a pioneering experiment, the cutting edge, even if left largely unfinished." - Marta Cartabia, Vice President, Constitutional Court of Italy

"An excellent snapshot view of western constitutional law as it stood at the end of the nineteenth century... The great scienti- c value of Comparative Constitutionalism is beyond doubt. The book would deserve to stand, along with Maitland's Constitutional History of England and some of James Bryce's own works, among the classics of later Victorian constitutional science." - Denis Baranger, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II