International Consortium for Law and Development

Knowledge in the Service of Democratic Social Change

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A1: The Learning Process
A2: Law and Social Change
A3: The Drafter's Role in Designing Legislation
A4: Translating Policy into Law: the Research Report
A5: Describing Your Difficulty's Two Main Aspects
A6: Explaining Role Occupants' Behaviors: The ROCCIPI Research Agenda
A7: Explaining Implementing Officials' Behaviors
A8: Formulating Solutions I: An Agenda for Designing Your Bill's Details
A9: Solutions II: Desigining Implementing Provisions
A10: Justifying a Bill for an Intransitive Law
A11: Designing a Dispute-Settlement System
A12: Designing Measures to Avoid Arbitrary Decision-Making: the Case of Corruption

B1: The Unity of Form and Substance
B2: Structuring Your Bill
B3: Drafting for the Who and the What
B4: Drafting for the Who
B5: Drafting for the What
B6: Ensuring Clarity and Avoiding Ambiguity: Overview
B7: Ensuring Clarity and Avoiding Ambiguity: I
B8: Ensuring Clarity and Avoiding Ambiguity: II
B9: Practice Sentences
B10: Drafting within Limits: Instructions, the Constitution, and Existing Law
B11: Canons of Interpretation
B12: Drafting Subsidiary Legislation, Regulations & Ordinances
B13: Drafting Internal Aids to Interpretation
B14: Drafting Amendments and 'Formal' Provisions
B15: Drafting for Good Governance & Participation
B-Stream Exercises