Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Contributors x
5. Scotland’s MacCormick
6. 1 A Post-Positivist Outlook from the Thistle 3
7. 2 The Works of Neil MacCormick: A Bibliography and a Bibliographical Essay on Scottish Themes 25
8. Enlightened Scots
9. 3 John Millar and Slavery 73
10. 4 Adam Ferguson, Classical Republicanism and the Imperative of Modernity 107
11. What’s in a Legal System?
12. 5 The Many Conceptions of a Legal System 131
13. 6 The Idea of a Legal System: Between the Real and the Ideal 145
14. Sovereignty and Beyond
15. 7 Scottish Nationalism For and Against the Union State 163
16. 8 Stateless Nations in the European Union: Two Cheers Not Three 191
17. The Scottish Public Intellectual
18. 9 Neil MacCormick: Public Intellectual 205
19. 10 Scotland’s Meridian: A Memoir of Neil MacCormick in the Scottish Public Sphere 220
20. Afterword
21. 11 Neil MacCormick: An Epilogue 231
22. Index 241