This article is the text of a paper presented by Robert Sutherland at the University of Aberdeen's Land Reform in Review Symposium on Thursday 20th August 2015.

The talk covered both the current Land Reform Bill and the recently enacted Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.  In particular, it focuses on three aspects of the land reform debate which are likely to provoke heated discussion in the years to come – (i) restrictions on who can own land, (ii) certain aspects of the community right to buy land, and (iii) football.