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This interdisciplinary analysis of Scotland's perennial political hot potato the Scottish land question follows the latest legislative development, The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016. Bringing together leading academics and professional experts working in law, history and policy, Land Reform in Scotland delves into issues from the early modern period to present day. Individual chapters discuss some areas such as property theory and human rights which have been under-studied in relation to land reform.

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"Any successful action on land reform will require a multidisciplinary response, and in this regard, this volume provides a strong foundation for future progress.--Jill Robbie, University of Glasgow ""The Edinburgh Law Review"" Essential reading for anyone taking part in the ground-breaking shift in the land reform debate. This is a timely and important contribution from leading academics and lawyers analysing land reform, an issue which runs through the heart of Scottish politics.-- ""Sir Crispin Agnew, Queen's Counsel, Westwater Advocates"" Land reform has of late loomed large, politically and legislatively, in Scotland. Academic analysis of the origins, nature and impact of reform has, in contrast, been sparse. This book's authors, not least because of the widely varied perspectives they offer, have gone a long way to making good that deficiency.-- ""James Hunter, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Highlands and Islands."" This compilation is an excellent primer for those new to the subject but also offers interesting perspectives to consider for those more experienced in it.--Mitchell Skilling, University of Aberdeen ""Juridical Review"" This is a most welcome book; in part because of its contents which are as wideranging as they are illuminating; but in part, too, because the sheer breadth and scope of its contributions signals increased academic involvement with a policy area which, for far too long, attracted little such engagement... Everything here is of value.--James Hunter, University of the Highlands and Islands ""Journal of Scottish Historical Studies"""

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Malcolm M. Combe is a Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Strathclyde and non-practising solicitor Jayne Glass is a Researcher in the Natural Resource and Sustainable Development group of the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is also an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh and previously worked at Scotland's Rural College and the University of the Highlands and Islands. Jayne has published widely on topics related to Scotland's land and rural communities, including Lairds, Land and Sustainability (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), Land Reform: History, law and policy (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Rural Poverty Today: experiences of social exclusion in rural Britain (Policy Press, 2023) and Managing Scotland's Environment (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Annie Tindley is Professor of British and Irish Rural History at Newcastle University and Head of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology. Her work interrogates land issues in the modern period including ownership, management and reform. In 2015 she established and became the first director of the Centre for Scotland's Land Futures, an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary research centre, and is the series editor for Scotland's Land, an interdisciplinary book series published by Edinburgh University Press. She is the author of The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish, 1871-1945 (co-edited with Ewen A. Cameron, Birlinn, 2015).

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