Drafting Legislation A Modern Approach

Contents: On transferability of legislative solutions: the functionality test, Helen Xanthaki; Drawing the line, Stephen Laws; Legislative intention, Ian McLeod; Legislator's intent: how judges discern it and what they do if they find it, Keith Mason; The techniques of gender-neutral drafting, Daniel Greenberg; Drafting legislation at the tax law rewrite project, Hayley Rogers; Retrospectivity in the drafting and interpretation of legislation, Lydia Clapinska; Repealing or amending legislation by non-legislative means, Alec Samuels; Pre-legislative scrutiny, Zione Ntaba; The role of the legislative drafter in promoting social transformation, Richard C. Nzerem; Improving democratic development by better regulation, Ulrich Karpen; Drafting principles of existing European contract law, Gerhard Dannemann; Drafting of EU acts: a view from the European Commission, William Robinson; Drafting to implement EU law: the European arrest warrant in the United Kingdom, Valsamis Mitsilegas; Procedures for the approximation of Albanian legislation with the Acquis Communautaire, Alfred E. Kellermann; Compromise and clarity in international drafting, Eileen Denza; Can legislation rank as literature?, Helen Caldwell; Open management of legislative documents, Giovanni Sartor; Between policy and implementation: legislative drafting for development, Ann Seidmann and Robert B. Seidmann; Drafters, drafting and the policy process, Constantin Stefanou; Index.