On such a short visit, there is not much opportunity to do much more than observe. I was able to see the library operations, some of the law school and a few Scottish courts. Scotland has a different legal system borrowing elements from both civil and common law traditions. For example, the civil law concept of delictual liability is used instead of torts. Also, certain treatises have obtained a status equal to cases and statutes.
Legal education is also different than in the United States.
Students enter law school at the age of 17 or 18 and study for four years for the LL.B., then take one year for a Diploma in Legal Practice and then two years serve as a trainee for solicitors. The post-diploma training period can be a wee bit shorter for advocates, the Scots equivalent of barristers. The library that I was visiting is organized differently from most law school libraries in the states and even from many in the United Kingdom. Glasgow University's law librarian, Heather Worlledge-Andrew, is actually their only Subject Specialist in Law, the European Union and the Council of Europe. Instead of being in an independent departmental library, the law materials are housed as just one of the collections in a much larger library.