Plus ca change? Continuity and change in UK legislative drafting practice

This article is taken from the text of the Sir William Dale Lecture for 2008, given on November 3 2008 by Stephen Laws CB, First Parliamentary Counsel, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. Article by Stephen Laws published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

An agenda for a tech check of a bill (tentative draft)

A tentative draft of an agenda for a tech check of a bill. This document suggests a series of questions to ask in determining if a bill conforms to technical requirements

Building Knowledge Bases for the Generation of Software Documentation

Automated text generation requires a underlying knowledge base from which to generate, which is often difficult to produce. Software documentation is one domain in which parts of this knowledge base may be derived automatically. In this paper, we describe \drafter, an authoring support tool for generating user-centred software documentation, and in particular, we describe how parts of its required knowledge base can be obtained automatically.Comment: 6 pages, from COLING-9

Proposal for creating an International Legislative Policy and Drafting Program

A proposal for BU to create an International Legislative Policy and Drafting program as part of the Law School