The Art of Legislating

• Main Author: Zapatero Gómez, Virgilio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Legisprudence Library, Studies on the Theory and Practice of Legislation, 6
• Subjects: Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Political science.; Legislative bodies.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Legislative and Executive Politics.

Any contemporary state presents itself as committed to the "rule of law", and this notion is perhaps the most powerful political ideal within the current global discourse on legal and political institutions. Despite being a contested concept, the rule of law is generally recognised as mean...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - The Study of Legislation
• The Dignity of Laws
• Laws under Suspicion
• The Design of Laws
• Legislative Policy
• A Soft Law
• The Art of Regulating
• Modes of Legislative Drafting
• The Drafter's Tasks
• Drafter's Deontology
• Implementation
• Government and Parliament
• Legislators and Judges
• Epilogue: The Art of Legislating and Globalisation.