Welcome

The Scottish Constitutional Futures Forum is a joint initiative of academics across the law schools of the Scottish universities. 

It seeks to provide an independent framework within which the key questions concerning Scotland's constitutional future can be aired and addressed.

Aims

The forum's main aims are to:

  • MAP the present constitutional debate by identifying and addressing the wide range of questions which have to be answered if Scotland's future is to be considered in a measured and comprehensive manner;
  • INFORM the debate by providing expert evidence, analysis and opinion from the Scottish legal academic community and beyond; and
  • ENGAGE in the debate by encouraging the participation of a wide range of groups and interests in a constitutional process the success of which depends on the breadth and depth of public involvement.

Latest News

View all news | Subscribe

SCFF Members Give Evidence to Independence Referendum Bill Committee

Professor Tom Mullen, Professor Neil Walker and Professor Aileen McHarg have all given evidence to the Referendum (Scotland) Bill Committee of the Scottish Parliament which is considering the Scottish Independence Referendum Bill.

Royal Society of Edinburgh/British Academy: Enlightening the Constitutional Debate

The Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy are holding a series of ten events entitled Enlightening the Constitutional Debate. Please see the Royal Society's website for further details.

Forthcoming Events

View all events | Subscribe

Scotland and the EU in the Event of a 'Yes' Vote in the Independence Referendum

An evening event at the University of Aberdeen examining the legal and political implications of a "yes" vote for Scotland being a member of the EU and on what terms.

 

Latest Blog Posts

View blog | Subscribe

Human Rights and Scotland's Constitutional Future

On 18 March and 1 May 2013, at the Scottish Parliament and Glasgow City Chambers respectively, the Scottish Constitutional Futures Forum (SCFF), Human Rights Consortium Scotland, Glasgow Human Rights Network, and Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network came together at the Scottish Parliament to discuss the place of human rights and Scotland’s constitutional future; an issue which has been largely side-lined in the independence debate to date.

 

Iain McLean: Scotland’s Choice and the Constitution(s): Are We All Neil MacCormick’s Bairns?

Together with Jim Gallagher and Guy Lodge, I have recently published Scotland’s Choices: the referendum and what happens afterwards (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).

 

Colin Reid: Environmental Futures

The impact of constitutional change on environmental law in Scotland was the focus of an event held in Dundee as part of both the SCFF programme and the University of Dundee’s Five Million Questions project, a knowledge exchange programme aiming to inform the debate in the run-up to the referendum.