Parliament of Scotland with the Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, with its seat in the Palace of Westminster, London. The Parliament of Great Britain was now unrestricted in altering laws concerning public right, policy and civil government, but concerning private right, only alterations for the evident utility of the subjects within Scotland were permitted. The Scottish Enlightenment then reinvigorated Scots law as a university-taught discipline. The transfer of legislative power to London and the introduction of appeal to the House of Lords (now to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom) brought further English influence. In the nineteenth century new areas of public policy that had not been part of Scottish law, in areas such as public health, working conditions, the protection of investors, were legislated for by the British Parliament, challenging the uniqueness of the system. Acts of the Parliament began to create unified legal statutes applying in both England and Scotland, particularly when conformity was seen as necessary for pragmatic reasons (such as the Sale of Goods Act 1893). Appeal decisions by English judges raised concerns about this appeal to a foreign system, and in the late 19th century Acts allowed for the appointment of Scottish Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. At the same time, a series of cases made it clear that no appeal lay from the High Court of Justiciary to the House of Lords. Today the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom usually has a minimum of two Scottish justices to ensure that some Scottish experience is brought to bear on Scottish appeals. Scots law has continued to change and develop, with the most significant change coming under devolution and the formation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. Notes References Reid, Kenneth; Zimmerman, Reinhard. A History of Private Law in Scotland: I. Introduction and Property. Oxford University Press, 2000. The Laws of Scotland: Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia Further reading Jackson W. Armstrong & Edda Frankot, eds. Cultures of law in urban Northern Europe : Scotland and its neighbours c.1350-c.1650. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021. John W. Cairns, ed. Selected essays on the history of Scots law, vol. 1: Law, lawyers, and humanism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2015. John W. Cairns, ed. Selected essays on the history of Scots law, vol. 2: Enlightenment, legal education, and critique. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP; Cary: Oxford UP, 2015. Thomas M. Green. The spiritual jurisdiction in reformation Scotland: a