Research Program
Research efforts focus on common development problems, sucessful legislative research and drafting strategies, and methods for starting effective in-country training programs for legislative drafters, government officials, university faculty members, civil society representatives and other participants in the law making process.
The Research Program is working to
• compile comparative law and experience information and share this knowledge by means of issue-specific trainings and publications;
• develop materials for ICLAD's training programs including the distance course, in-country workshops, the residence program, and university courses offered by ICLAD-affiliates;
• disseminate research reports, bills and articles through the ICLAD website and international and web-based conferences;
• organize issue-specific conferences to provide participants and legislative drafters an opportunity to learn from one another.
Original research will...
- provide in-field consultants, country contacts and others with country-specific and issue-specific background information;
- serve as the foundation for issue-specific conferences and workshops, thus facilitating dialogue among decision-makers, civil society participants and academics unified by the problem-solving methodology; and
- lead to the development of advanced on-line courses on issues such as combating corruption and using the problem-solving methodology in the constitution-making and immediate post-conflict contexts.
New Courses in Development
- Comparative legislative processes
- Comparative administrative processes (comparative administrative oversight processes, specifying a ministry's input-conversion-feedback processess, increasing decision transparency and holding ministries accountable)
- Convening public-input processes (laws and institutional structures to increase the likelihood of meaningful public input)
- Pedagogical preparation (preparing and certifying facilitators, introducing techniques for running an effective legislative clinic, pedagogical theory and teaching practice)
- Setting up an intransitive body (guiding on-going issue prioritization and research, ensuring maximum transparency and accountability, and ensuring research data is transformed into effectively implementable regulations)
- Legislative assessment
- Comparative constitutional law (focusing on mechanisms for ensuring the on-going implementation of human rights)
Research is pursued in collaboration with country contacts, pro bono attorneys, students and interns. To submit an article for publication on the ICLAD website, or to learn more about entering into a research collaboration through ICLAD, please CLICK HERE. |
