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{{short description|British legal scholar}}
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'''Trevor Robert Seaward Allan''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-287796|title=Allan, Prof. Trevor Robert Seaward, (born 9 May 1955), Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law, University of Cambridge, since 2003; Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge, since 1985 {{!}} WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|website=www.ukwhoswho.com|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U287796|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4|access-date=2019-11-07}}</ref> LLD {{post-nominals|country=GBR|commas=on|FBA|size=100%}} (born 9 May 1955) is Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law at the [[Organization:University of Cambridge|University of Cambridge]] and a Fellow of [[Organization:Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke College]]. He is known for challenging constitutional orthodoxy in the {{wipe|United Kingdom}}, particularly in his redefinition of the scope of [[Social:Parliamentary sovereignty|parliamentary sovereignty]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2014/02/04/stuart-lakin-the-sovereignty-of-law-freedom-constitution-and-common-law-by-professor-trevor-allan-some-preliminary-thoughts/|title = Stuart Lakin: The Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution and Common Law by Professor Trevor Allan: Some Preliminary Thoughts|date = 4 February 2014}}</ref>

== Education and career ==

Allan was educated at [[Organization:St Albans School, Hertfordshire|St Albans School]] and Worcester College, Oxford, where he received a MA in Jurisprudence and a [[Social:Bachelor of Civil Law|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 [[Organization:University of Nottingham|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-trevor-allan|title = Professor Trevor Allan FBA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=British Academy announces new President and elects 66 new Fellows|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/british-academy-announces-new-president-and-elects-66-new-fellows|website=The British Academy|access-date=18 July 2016|date=15 July 2016}}</ref>

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).<ref>[http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/trs-allan/16 Cambridge Faculty of Law]</ref>

== Constitutional theory ==

Allan's view is that the [[Philosophy:Rule of law|rule of law]] occupies a superior position to [[Social:Parliamentary sovereignty|parliamentary sovereignty]] in the constitutional hierarchy. He develops this view in ''The Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution and Common Law''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.administrativelawmatters.com/blog/2014/05/20/some-notes-on-allan-the-sovereignty-of-law/|title=Some Notes on Allan, the Sovereignty of Law}}</ref>

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