However, René David’s attitude, as a significant French scholar, is tempered by the fact that there are organisations, such as the Law Society of Scotland, the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament, that make it well known that there is such a thing as the Scottish legal system, that it is in some respects very different from the English legal system, and that in other respects it is similar to some continental legal systems.The common Roman law foundation gives a sort of currency that we can use in continental European legal systems. Although we all march...