MacCormick's Scotland / / Neil Walker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Walker, Neil,
• MitwirkendeR: Bańkowski, Zenon,; Broadie, Alexander,; Cairns, John W.,; Del Mar, Maksymilian,; Dickson, Julie,; MacQueen, Hector,; Maher, Gerry,; Scott, Drew,; Scott, Joanne,; Storrar, William,; Walker, Neil,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Law : ESL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgements --; List of Contributors --; Scotland’s MacCormick --; 1 A Post-Positivist Outlook from the Thistle --; 2 The Works of Neil MacCormick: A Bibliography and a Bibliographical Essay on Scottish Themes --; Enlightened Scots --; 3 John Millar and Slavery --; 4 Adam Ferguson, Classical Republicanism and the Imperative of Modernity --; What’s in a Legal System? --; 5 The Many Conceptions of a Legal System --; 6 The Idea of a Legal System: Between the Real and the Ideal --; Sovereignty and Beyond --; 7 Scottish Nationalism For and Against the Union State --; 8 Stateless Nations in the European Union: Two Cheers Not Three --; The Scottish Public Intellectual --; 9 Neil MacCormick: Public Intellectual --; 10 Scotland’s Meridian: A Memoir of Neil MacCormick in the Scottish Public Sphere --; Afterword --; 11 Neil MacCormick: An Epilogue --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748643813; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748643813
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Neil Walker.

A well-rounded appreciation of the Scottish dimension in MacCormick's thinking and writingSir Neil MacCormick (1940–2009) was a the world-renowned legal philosopher and prominent Scottish public intellectual who held 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.Focusing on a number of prominent Scottish themes in MacCormick's work and life, this volume 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.Key FeaturesEdited by Neil Walker – a highly respected scholar, thinker and writer who succeeded MacCormick in the Regius ChairThe editor and all of the contributors were closely acquainted with MacCormick - both as a scholar and a manThe first book to examine MacCormick through a distinctly Scottish lens