Full Description
This book analyses in depth the distinctively Scottish themes in the work of Sir Neil MacCormick, the world-renowned legal philosopher and prominent Scottish public intellectual who died in 2009 after holding the Regius Chair in Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at Edinburgh University for 36 years. MacCormick's work, and works about MacCormick, attract both a domestic and an international audience. Readers will gain an understanding of how MacCormick's Scottish roots, interests and commitments coloured his work - both his distinctively Scottish writings and the overall intellectual outlook that informed his broader legal and philosophical writings.The book provides a well rounded appreciation of the Scottish dimension in MacCormick's thinking and writing. It focuses on a number of prominent Scottish themes in MacCormick's work and life and is structured around four key themes: 1) the nature and identity of a legal system; 2) sovereignty, European integration and Scottish independence; 3) the legacy of the legal and political thought of the Scottish enlightenment; and 4) the role of the academic in the Scottish public sphere.
Contents
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.
