Written Constitutions

The subject of this episode is 'Written Constitutions', examining the advantages and disadvantages of written and unwritten constitutions, in theory and in practice.

Discussants are Lorna Drummond QC (Sheriff in Tayside, Central and Fife, sitting at Dundee Sheriff Court, Sheriff of the Sheriff Appeal Court, and Temporary High Court Judge and Justice of the Court of Appeal of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha); Jim Gallagher (former Civil Servant, headed the Scottish justice department and was the UK government’s most senior adviser on devolution and other constitutional issues); Don Herzog (Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law at the University of Michigan) and John Hudson (Professor of Legal History, University of St Andrews).