This panel explores questions of legisprudence from a transsystemic perspective. It examines the characteristics of “good“ legislation, focussing on intertwined questions of process and substance. Panellists will discuss the role of the participatory elements of law-making, including consultation and information-sharing. They will reflect on the function of parliamentary committees in the evaluation of legislation, and...
An Appraisal of Legislative Procedure in the Singapore Parliament
This article critically examines legislative procedure in the Singapore Parliament. It explains how procedure can provide the time, information, and opportunities for effective legislative scrutiny by Parliament. It then considers in detail the different stages of law making which Parliament is or should be involved in—the passage of Government Bills, pre- and post-legislative scrutiny, subsidiary...
Quality Control and Management in Legislation
It is not enough to claim the quality of legislation. It has to be realized as well. The question is whether the general assumptions of quality management systems can, if at all and to what extent, be adopted to introduce and ensure a quality management of the legislative process. In this paper, a possible theoretical...
The Art and Science of Constitutional Legislation
Much of the existing Canadian literature on deference focuses on courts. What remains underexplored is how the Parliamentary process and executive policy design and constitutional review might inform the Court‘s deference analysis. Drawing on the field of Gesetzgebungstheorie, or legisprudence, this paper considers whether deference analysis should be influenced by parliamentary work, including travaux préparatoires,...