The Scottish Independence Referendum Constitutional and Political Implications

by McHarg, Aileen; Mullen, Tom; Page, Alan; Walker, Neil

• ISBN13: 9780191816697
• ISBN10: 0191816698
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2016-07-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Aileen McHarg, Professor of Public Law, University of Strathclyde,Tom Mullen, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow,Alan Page, Professor of Public Law, University of Dundee,Neil Walker, Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, University of Edinburgh

Aileen McHarg is Professor of Public Law at the University of Strathclyde. She has written extensively on Scots and UK public law, and participated actively in the referendum debate. Together with the other editors of this volume, she was a founding member of the Scottish Constitutional Futures Forum. She is also a member of the Law Society of Scotland's Constitutional Law Sub-Committee, an executive member of the UK Constitutional Law Association, and Analysis Editor of the Edinburgh Law Review.


Tom Mullen is Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow. His research interests include constitutional law, administrative law and housing law, and he has written widely on these subjects. In the last few years, he has been working extensively on constitutional change in the UK.


Alan Page is Professor of Public Law at the University of Dundee. He has written extensively on the constitutional law and governance of Scotland since devolution and the independence referendum.


Neil Walker is Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh, having previously been Professor of European Law at the European University Institute. He has written extensively on matters of UK, European, and transnational constitutional theory and practice. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and also of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is general editor of the OUP monograph series Oxford Constitutional Theory.

Table of Contents

Referendum Timeline
Part I: The Road to the Referendum
1. Introduction, Aileen McHarg, Tom Mullen, Alan Page and Neil Walker
2. The Independence Referendum in Historical and Political Context, Colin Kidd and Malcolm Petrie
Part II: The Referendum Process
3. The Scottish Independence Referendum: A Model of Good Practice in Direct Democracy?, Stephen Tierney
4. The Referendum Campaign, James Mitchell
Part III: The Referendum Debate
5. The Framing of the Referendum Debate, Tom Mullen
6. The Constitutional Case for Independence, Aileen McHarg
7. Making the Case for Union: Exactly Why Are We Better Together?, Jim Gallagher
8. Scotland, Secession, and the European Union, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
9. International Law and Processes of Political Settlement, Christine Bell
10. Economics and National Autonomy, Andrew Scott
Part IV: Territorial Politics and the UK Constitution After the Independence Referendum
11. A Constitution in Flux: the Dynamics of Constitutional Change After the Referendum, Nicola McEwen
12. The Territorial Constitution and the Future of Scotland, Neil Walker
13. Devolutionary Federalism Within a Westminster-Derived Context, Nicholas Aroney
14. The Referendum Debate, the Democratic Deficit, and the Governance of Scotland, Alan Page
15. A Neverendum?, Andrew Tickell