MacCormick's Scotland

Neil Walker is Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations in the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. His main area of expertise is constitutional theory. He has published extensively on the constitutional dimension of legal order at sub-state, state, supranational and international levels. He has also published at length on the relationship between security, legal order and political community. In December 2008, Professor Walker conducted an independent review of final appellate jurisdiction in the Scottish legal system on behalf of the Scottish Government.

• Preface and Acknowledgements, Neil Walker; 1. Scotland's MacCormick; 1. A Post-Positivist Outlook From the Thistle, Hector MacQueen; 2. The Works of Neil MacCormick: A Bibliography and a Bibliographical Essay on Scottish Themes, Maksymilian Del Mar; 2. Enlightened Scots; 3. John Millar and Slavery, John W Cairns; 4. Adam Ferguson, Classical Republicanism and the Imperative of Modernity, Alexander Broadie; 3. What's in a Legal System?; 5. The Many Conceptions of a Legal System, Gerry Maher; 6. The Idea of a Legal System: Between the Real and the Ideal, Julie Dickson; 4. Sovereignty and Beyond; 7. Scottish Nationalism For and Against the Union State, Neil Walker; 8. Stateless Nations in the European Union: Two Cheers Not Three, Joanne Scott; 5. The Scottish Public Intellectual; 9. Neil MacCormick: Public Intellectual, Drew Scott; 10. Scotland's Meridian: A Memoir of Neil MacCormick in the Scottish Public Sphere, William Storrar; Afterword; 11. Neil MacCormick: An Epilogue, Zenon Bankowski.

MacCormick's Scotland sets out to explain the distinctiveness of MacCormick's life and thought in terms of his "Scottishness"....Taken as a whole the book shows how MacCormick's conerns, agendas and distinctive ideas have deep roots in Scottish, history, culture, polictics, institutions, law and, above all, the Scottish Enlightenment. But it makes clear that his influence and significance reach far beyond Scotland....