Law Making and the Scottish Parliament: The Early Years

Citation

Sutherland EE, Goodall K, Little G & Davidson F (eds.) (2011) Law Making and the Scottish Parliament: The Early Years. Edinburgh Studies in Law. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748640195

Abstract
This book offers a wide-ranging critical analysis of legislative developments in those areas of law and policy devolved to the Scottish Parliament under the devolution settlement. It begins with a brief account of the devolution settlement and summarises the themes emerging from the subsequent chapters. Thereafter, sixteen themed chapters, each dedicated to a discrete area of the law and written by an acknowledged expert in the field, provide critical evaluation of the Scottish Parliament's contribution, highlighting what it has achieved, what it has failed to do and what might be done in the future. This book provides a scholarly evaluation of a number of legislative achievements of Scotland's devolved parliament in its first decade.

Keywords
Scottish law; devolution settlement; legislative achievements; Scottish Parliament; Scotland

People

Professor Elaine Sutherland

Emeritus Professor, Law