A Manual for Drafters
The Seidmans together with their co-author, Nalin Abeysekere,
for two decades the Legal Draftsman of Sri Lanka, lay out the strategy for
their learning process in their comprehensive manual entitled, Legislative
Drafting for Democratic Social Change: A Manual for Drafters, (publisher:
Kluwer Law International, London 2000). Already, it has been translated
into several languages. According to its authors, the document covers three
principal areas: the gathering of essential information and writing a research
report that uses facts and logic to demonstrate that, in the country's unique
conditions, the proposed bill will likely work; hands-on techniques for
drafting the bill's actual detailed provisions; and drafting to enhance
the rule of law. You may purchase a copy of the English version of the Manual
for 30 USD. To order, please e-mail rseidman@bu.edu,
or write to us at ICLAD, P.O. Box 422, Boston University Station, Boston,
Massachusetts 02215. This Manual has also been translated into
Russian, Chinese, Bahassa Indonesia, Sinhalese, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese,
and is being translated into Macedonian. If you would like to obtain a copy
in any of these languages, please let us know. Make your check payable to
the International Consortium for Law and Development.
Assessing
Legislation
Download our manual, Assessing Legislation: A Manual
for Legislators.
This manual aims to enable legislators--even if they have no previous training in legislation--to read and to assess a bill in terms of the public interest; that is, in light of rational argument, grounded in facts and logic. We hope it will prove useful for members of parliaments and their staffs, and others concerned with ensuring enactment of legislation to facilitate good governance and effective development. It constitutes a companion piece for Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change: A Manual for Drafters (see above).
You may print and distribute as many copies of this new manual as you wish, either for your own use, or for participants in workshops focused on assessing legislation.
We would appreciate it if you, and the people with whom you work, would make suggestions for improving this manual. Only so can we improve it and, more broadly, deepen legislative theory.
Directions for downloading the manual:
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Handbook and Sample Schedule for Workshops on Legislative Drafting for Democratic Change
This workshop handbook provides a sample daily schedule for a two-week workshop focused on learning-by-doing for government ministry, legislative staff, and non-government organization personnel. In this sample workshop, participants would engage in drafting real bills, accompanied by research reports to demonstrate that their detailed provisions will likely to help resolve real social problems in their own country. In that process, the participants would begin to learn legislative problem-solving theory, methodology, and techniques necessary to draft legislation effectively implemented.
Click to view the handbook for a two-week workshop
You may download this sample handbook free of charge. Please contact us
to discuss ways that we might support your efforts to tailor a program to
your participants' interests