International Political and Legal Implications of Scottish Independence

Working Paper 2013:01

Authors: David Scheffer 

Professor David Scheffer is Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and Director, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois. An earlier version of this paper, which sets out the author's views on some of the implications if Scotland were to leave the United Kingdom and become an independent sovereign state, was delivered by the author at the University of Glasgow, on 22 January 2013 in its Security and an Independent Scotland lecture series.