The Law Library Help Desk is staffed by experienced law students who can help you with your library research tests and legal research questions. “Gay Priori is a remarkable achievement and perhaps the first book to give substance to the debates in the humanities it addresses, true critical legal, legal and legal studies. Brilliantly executed and tightly argued, Libby Adler`s book is an important intervention that can help create a more economically redistributive LGBT social movement in the United States. – Janet Halley, author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism Law reform in its many forms bridges the gap between the practical and the academic. In both common law and civil law, there is still a need to examine existing law – both law and jurisprudence – to ensure that it remains fit for purpose and relevant to the current needs of government and society. The means used to achieve these objectives and, if necessary, to revise them will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and take different forms. For jurisdictions with mature code, the time has come to evaluate the legislation it contains with a view to removing material that, for one reason or another (especially over decades), is outdated, obsolete or of no practical use. This must be eradicated. Other laws will have been amended over the years and a mechanism must be found either to consolidate the adaptations into a single text or to recast it, taking into account the judicial decisions resulting from the interpretation or application. The revision of the law involves a combination of all these techniques, in which the whole code or parts of it are arranged in a more logical way, so that the format and content are more easily accessible in printed or electronic form. And then, from time to time, it is necessary to abstain from the subject matter of certain areas of law and to decide whether, when the law no longer functions satisfactorily, it needs to be reformed – in other words, it needs to be stripped and reassembled in a more coherent, comprehensive or simplified way. supported by a legislative procedure. Legislative reform is being carried out by various organizations.
In some jurisdictions, this is the task of the Office of the Attorney-General; in others, specific statutory legal reform bodies are established with the task of reviewing the government or legislator and making recommendations. and in others, the task of legislative reform is entrusted to academic bodies. In addition, professional associations in the less formal sector often develop proposals for legislative reform and advocate for change. What is not really clear, however, is how legislative reform is being carried out in different types of jurisdictions; the effectiveness of this delivery in terms of government acceptance and implementation; how to develop a legislative reform agenda; and how best practices can be identified, disseminated and exchanged among different agencies. The EIAA Law Reform Project, in collaboration with other agencies in this area, aims to address some of these issues. The outline is necessarily broad, but we hope it will appeal to a range of practitioners (in reform and the legal service in general), academics (specializing in law and other related disciplines), and those working in policy development, draft legislation and policy development. The project`s first goals would be: “Libby Adler takes a smart, provocative and fascinating approach to LGBTQ rights law reform. Adler proposes to reverse the civil rights horizon formulated by LGBTQ leaders and offers a rigorous and radical critique of conventional wisdom about what it means to “win” gay rights. We desperately need these kinds of enduring and reasoned challenges for the traditional gay rights agenda.
Katherine Franke, author of Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality The fifth workshop, on Monday, November 4 (see our event page for more details), focused on the parliamentary review of legislative reform. In its initial phase, the project will focus on the mechanisms of legal reform rather than its content, although this certainly does not preclude further research in areas of legal reform that (for some reason – usually one of the resources) are unlikely to be studied by other organisations in this area. and then link this work to the Sir William Dale Centre`s established legislative drafting clinic. The Law Reform Project is co-led by Professor Enrico Albanesi (Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Genoa and Sir William Dale Research Fellow at IALS) and Jonathan Teasdale (Sir William Dale Associate Research Fellow at IALS) under the general supervision of Dr Constantin Stefanou (Director of the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies). We hope to involve other researchers and PhD students of the Institute in this project. If you need more information about the project or would like to get involved, please contact us at: ials.lawreform@sas.ac.uk This first workshop, which will take place on Tuesday 24. November 2015 at the Institute here at the University of London (see our events page for more details), aimed to define quite broadly those areas that we believe deserve to be studied by academics, but which may well have practical utility for a different audience. For example, governments abroad that need advice on setting up legal reform agencies may appreciate advice on different models, how they work, and who they can turn to for further guidance. The fourth workshop on Thursday 1 November 2018 (details can be found on our event page) dealt with legal reform from the perspective of the independence of legal reform agencies and the implementation of their proposals.
Anthem Studies in Law Reform bridges the gap between legal activism and academic research by publishing short books (20,000 to 30,000 words) that focus on legal reform. Each title examines why and how a particular area of law needs to be reformed. Covering all areas of law and jurisdictions, the books in the series are written in an authoritative yet accessible style that will appeal to academics, practitioners, and high school students. This series publishes short monographs, anthologies, textbooks, companions and manuals.
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