Questioning Sovereignty Law, State. and Nation in the European Commonwealth [Hardcover]

This is a book about the transformation of sovereignty in the United Kingdom and the European Union, about the transition from 'sovereign states' to 'post-sovereign states', about devolution and nationalism and the future of the British union.

1. The Legal Framework: Institutional Normative Order
2. The State and the Law
3. The Interest of the State and the Rule of Law
4. The United Kingdom: What State? What Constitution?
5. The Benthamite Constitution: Decline and Fall?
6. A Very British Revolution?
7. Juridical Pluralism and the Risk of Constitutional Conflict
8. On Sovereignty and Post-Sovereignty
9. Democracy and Subsidiarity in the European Environment
10. Some Questions of Freedom
11. A Kind of Nationality
12. New Unions for Old

The late Neil MacCormick, formerly Regius Professor Emeritus of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations in the University of Edinburgh