Legislative drafting for democratic social change / by Ann Seidman, Robert B. Seidman, and Nalin Abeysekere.
2001
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Title
Legislative drafting for democratic social change / by Ann Seidman, Robert B. Seidman, and Nalin Abeysekere.
Published
London ; Boston : Kluwer Law International, 2001.
Call Number
K3320 .S4 2000
Former Call Number
Comp 210 Se42 2001
ISBN
9041197931 (hardbound : alk. paper)
Description
xxiii, 415 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)83755135
Note
Includes index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Pt. I
Legislative Drafting, Good Governance and the Development Process
1Law and Social Change
5
2The Legislative Drafters' Role in Drafting Transformatory Laws
21
3Prioritizing Drafting Proposals
51
Pt. II
Justifying a Draft Bill: The Research Report
4Writing a Research Report: Operationalizing Legislative Theory and Methodology
85
5Writing a Research Report: Ensuring Effective, Non-Arbitrary Implementation
125
6Capturing the Evidence
167
7Form of a Research Report
187
Pt. III
Techniques for Drafting the Bill
8The Architecture of a Bill
207
9Writing a Legislative Sentence: The Who and the What
231
10Writing a Legislative Sentence: Ensuring Clarity and Avoiding Ambiguity
255
11Drafting Within the Constitution and Other Limits
279
12Internal Aids to Interpretation
303
13Formal Matters: Placing the Statutes in the Corpus of the Law
319
Pt. IV
Drafting for Good Governance
14Drafting for the Rule of Law and Defensively Against Corruption
343
15Possible Formulations for Exercises
377
Index
403