Publishing in the Scottish Universities Law
Institute series this is the most in-depth Scottish treatment of Constitutional
law. Constitutional Law provides the first complete account of the
constitutional framework within which the government of Scotland has been
carried on since devolution in 1999, and of the governance of Scotland as it
stands in the wake of September’s historic referendum on Scottish independence.
This is a very different book from its
predecessor in this series, J D B Mitchell’s Constitutional Law, which was first published almost fifty years
ago. Its aim is to provide an authoritative account of both the new Scottish
constitution and the contemporary governance of Scotland. It also charts the
long march towards ‘accountable’ government in Scotland. After exploring the
new Scottish constitution as set out in the Scotland and the Human Rights Acts,
it examines the separate Scottish, United Kingdom and European dimensions of
the contemporary governance of Scotland.
As befits its subject matter, it is written from a Scottish perspective,
i.e. from the perspective of someone living in Scotland, rather than the
Anglo-centric perspective which inevitably dominates much United Kingdom
constitutional writing.