Scotland's Constitutional Future: Interdependent Independence or Independent Interdependence?

Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2013/05

Europa Working Series Paper No. 2013/04

18 Pages Posted: 3 Mar 2013 Last revised: 3 Jun 2013

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Neil Walker

University of Edinburgh, School of Law

Date Written: March 3, 2013

Abstract

Scotland's urgent constitutional question, which will be addressed in a referendum in the autumn of 2014, challenges many conventional assumptions about what is at stake in the struggle over sovereign authority and political identity, and about how that struggle might be treated and resolved. This essay investigates that challenge.

Keywords: sovereignty, Scotland, referendum, independence, devolution, EU, multi-level governance, identity

Suggested Citation

Walker, Neil, Scotland's Constitutional Future: Interdependent Independence or Independent Interdependence? (March 3, 2013). Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2013/05 , Europa Working Series Paper No. 2013/04, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2227643

Neil Walker (Contact Author)

University of Edinburgh, School of Law ( email )

Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh, EH8 9YL
United Kingdom

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