Author: Ian McLeod
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Keywords: drafting, regulatory, legislative, principles
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 1841137723
ISBN-13: 9781841137728

Principles of Legislative and Regulatory Drafting provides a succinct guide to an area of law and practice which has previously been very poorly served by English textbooks. It explains how drafters can convert legislative and regulatory policy into a form which has the desired effect in the most direct and accessible way. On the basis that those who seek to communicate must be conscious of how their words will be read, the text includes a chapter on interpretation. Other chapters include the nature of drafting instructions (including ethical considerations), the general principles of drafting

Author: Sarah A. Binder
Publisher: Brookings Institution Pre
Keywords: gridlock, legislative, consequences, causes, stalemate
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815709110
ISBN-13: 9780815709114

Critics of American politics have long lamented legislative stalemate as an unfortunate byproduct of divided party government, charging that it brings unnecessary conflict, delays and ineffective policies. Although the term "gridlock" is said to have entered the American political lexicon after the 1980 elections, legislative stalemate is not a modern invention. Alexander Hamilton complained about it more than two centuries ago. In "Stalemate", Sarah Binder examines the causes and consequences of gridlock, exploring the ways in which elections and institutions together limit the capacity of Co

Author: Robert Emeritz
Publisher: Pike & Fischer, Inc.
Keywords: history, legislative, law, telecommunications
Number of Pages: 750
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0937275077
ISBN-13: 9780937275078

Seldom has a single piece of legislation so completely changed the regulatory and economic structure of an entire industry. The 1996 Telecommunications Act requires the Federal Communications Commission to hold rulemaking proceedings and issue new regulations in more than 70 distinct areas. The historic law is having a real and lasting impact on how the telecommunications industry, and its state and federal regulators, will do business in the future. Pike & Fischer’s The 1996 Telecommunications Act: Law & Legislative History brings together all of the core materials necessary to under

Author: Beth Reingold
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
Keywords: getting, ahead, elected, legislative, women
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 2008-08-15
List price: $62.50
ISBN-10: 1588265927
ISBN-13: 9781588265920

Author: Augusto Boal
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: politics, performance, using, theatre, legislative
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-11-12
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415182417
ISBN-13: 9780415182416

Augusto Boal’s reputation is now moving beyond the realms of theatre and drama therapy, bringing him to the attention of a wider public. Legislative Theatre is the latest and most remarkable stage in his work. ’Legislative Theatre’ is an attempt to use Boal’s method of ’Forum Theatre’ within a political system to create a truer form of democracy. It is an extraordinary experiment in the potential of theatre to affect social change. At the heart of his method of Forum Theatre is the dual meaning of the verb ’to act’: to perform and to take action.

Authors:Gerald Benjamin, Michael J. Malbin,
Publisher: Cq Pr
Keywords: terms, legislative, limiting
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1992-07
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0871878631
ISBN-13: 9780871878632

Author: Christian Mammen
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: statutory, interpretation, american, history, legislative, using
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2002-06-27
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 9041188797
ISBN-13: 9789041188793

Using Legislative History in American Statutory Interpretation examines the United States Supreme Court’s actual use of legislative history in statutory interpretation, distills the theoretical issues presented by the Court’s practices, then analyzes those issues in light of the arguments of several leading theorists. The book separates the utility and usability of legislative history from theories based on legislative intention. Rather than basing an argument for using legislative history on legislative intention, it argues that legislative history conveys a certain degree of expe