Legislative Drafting: Overview
The training workshop on Legislative Drafting Techniques aims to contribute to improving the legal skills of parliamentary staff so that they can better support parliamentarians to perform their legislative function.
Objectives
The workshop provides an overview of the legislative processes and drafting procedure (tailored to the context of the participants) with a focus on the following:
- Outline theories and principles of legislation drafting
- Provide knowledge to parliamentary staff on how to better research, analyze and draft laws
- Enable parliamentary staff to support individual MPs to draft their own bills and critically analyze the bills brought to the Parliament
- Help parliamentary staff to build the necessary skills to scrutinize the draft proposals for legislation in accordance with each Parliament’s norms and standards for legislative drafting
- Draw on knowledge on how to structure a bill so as to ensure coherence, on how legislative drafting should evolve in order to successfully face the challenges and growing needs of modern societies
- Examine how ICTs may support parliamentary work and meet these objectives
DURATION
Two afternoons
VENUE
Online
DATE
21 – 22 October
PARTICIPANTS
42 participants from AIPA Member Parliaments and two staff from the AIPA Secretariat
LANGUAGES
The seminar is conducted in English