At this ‘Legislative Drafting and Language’ Workshop, scholars and experts in the field of law, legislative drafting, and linguistics will explore the research space around law and language focusing on Continue Reading
Omnibus legislation (AKA “Christmas tree bills”; “portmanteau bills”; “mosaic laws”; “arrangements laws”) is the legislative practice of packaging together numerous unrelated measures in one long bill, which is often passed Continue Reading
The International Conference on “Data Technologies, New Approaches to Better Regulation” will take place on 4 June as an online event in the context of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of Continue Reading
Since 1995, the International Legislative Drafting Institute at Tulane University in New Orleans has offered a two-week training opportunity for more than 600 legislative drafters and members from 100+ jurisdictions around the globe. Continue Reading
The Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (CIAJ) is organizing a Legislative Drafting Webinar on “Legislative Drafting in Time of Pandemic”, on June 7, 2021. The session will look at how Continue Reading
A new edition of the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel (CALC) Newsletter has been released. The May 2021 edition include: • CALC President’s Report—May 2021 • Drafting through the pandemic: a view from London Continue Reading
This is a comparative analysis of formal rules for legislative drafting (formal legistics) of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, Mozambique, Continue Reading
The International Association of Legislation and the Centre for Legislative Studies (Zentrum für Rechtsetzungslehre-ZfR) are organizing the 2021 Zurich IAL Conference with the topic “Multilingual Legislation”, on September 13-14, 2021. This Continue Reading
The European Commission recently presented its Communication on Better Regulation, proposing several improvements to the EU law-making process. Better Regulation is a shared objective and responsibility of all EU institutions. The Continue Reading
A special issue of The Theory and Practice of Legislation (Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2021), guest-edited by Enrico Albanesi, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Department of Law, University of Genova, and Continue Reading
