Emlyn Capel Stewart Wade (31 August 1895 – 28 April 1978) was a British constitutional law scholar. He was

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at the

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from 1945 to 1962.

Biography

The son of Charles Stewart Douglas Wade, Wade was educated at

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and

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, where he took

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in both parts of the Law

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. During the

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he served with the

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with the British Salonika Force. In 1920 he was elected a scholar of Gonville and Caius College, and won the Whewell Scholarship in International Law in 1922. He was then called to the bar at the

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. Wade practised at the bar in London and Newscastle, and lectured in Law

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(now

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), becoming its Vice-Principal in 1924 and Principal in 1926. In 1928 he returned to Cambridge as a fellow of

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, and university lecturer. In 1931 he returned to Gonville and Caius College as a fellow. During

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Wade first served in a London anti-aircraft brigade, before being transferred to the War Cabinet Secretariat and subsequently the

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. In 1945 Wade was elected

, holding the post until his retirement in 1962. In 1962–63 he was Hinkley Visiting Professor at

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. From November 1948 to January 1949 he was a member of the British delegation of the Committee for the Study of European Unity, convened by the

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to draw up the blueprint of the future

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Works

Wade's most famous work is ''Constitutional Law'', published with

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and commonly known as 'Wade and Phillips'. It was first published in 1931 and which went through ten editions during his lifetime. He also edited

A. V. Dicey Albert Venn Dicey, (4 February 1835 – 7 April 1922) was a British Whig 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 expou ...

's ''The Law of the Constitution'', publishing new editions in 1939 and 1959.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wade, E. C. S. 1978 deaths Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Members of the Inner Temple English King's Counsel Fellows of the British Academy British legal scholars Scholars of constitutional law 1895 births Downing Professors of the Laws of England