The Scottish Constitutional Futures Forum is a joint initiative of academics across the law schools of the Scottish universities.
It seeks to provide an independent framework within which the key questions concerning Scotland's constitutional future can be aired and addressed.
The forum's main aims are to:
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A seminar will be held on the Changing World of Social Security and Administrative Justice in Scotland at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh in the afternoon of Tuesday 18 October 2016. See attached flyer for further details.
A workshop and roundtable on Brexit and the British Bill of Rights will take place at Edinburgh Law School on Thursday 27th October, from 10am to 5pm.
The Scottish Independence Referendum: Constitutional and Political Implications was published by Oxford University Press in June. The book was edited by Aileen McHarg, Tom Mullen, Alan Page and Neil Walker, founder members of the Scottish Constitutional Futures Forum, and contains a range of essays by distinguished public lawyers, political scientists, economists and historians - many of whom contributed to the Forum's events and blog.
The book provides a systematic, academic analysis of the referendum and its aftermath. The chapters evaluate the historical events leading up to the referendum, the referendum process, and the key issues arising from the referendum debate. They also explore the implications of the referendum both for the future governance of Scotland and for the UK's territorial constitution, drawing on comparative experience in order to understand how the constitution may evolve, and how the independence debate may play out in future.
An open access version of Chapter 14 of the book - Andrew Tickell, "The Technical Jekyll and the Political Hyde: the Constitutional Law and Politics of Scotland's Independence 'Neverendum'" - is now available, along with a blog post written by Tom Mullen to accompany the publication of the book.
No forthcoming events.
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The early months of the 2014 independence referendum were dominated by process issues: who got to decide whether – and if so, on what terms – a referendum would take place? Following Nicola Sturgeon’s call on Monday for a second independence referendum, it looks like process issues will be equally problematic this time around.