Legislation, Legisprudence and Comparative Law

Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov; Helen Xanthaki

doi:10.4337/9781839105609.legislation.legisprudence.comp.law

Legislation, Legisprudence and Comparative Law

Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, Helen Xanthaki

Bar-Ilan University - Yaacov Herzog Faculty of Law

University of London

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Legisprudence – the legal field dedicated to studying the theory and practice of legislation –is an emerging subject in comparative law. This chapter discusses the need for comparative law scholars to focus more attention to the field of legislation, and for legisprudence scholars to adopt a more comparative perspective. It then introduces the field of comparative legisprudence. It discusses and compares major practices in lawmaking, as well as main themes in the field of comparative legisprudence. It concludes with offering directions for future development.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law
Editors	Jan M. Smits, Jaakko Husa, Catherine Valcke, Madalena Narciso
Place of Publication	Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages	530–537
ISBN (Electronic)	9781839105609
ISBN (Print)	9781839105593
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839105609.legislation.legisprudence.comp.law
State	Published - 2023

Keywords

Legislation
Legisprudence
Comparative Law
Quality of Legislation
Better Lawmaking
Parliamentary Studies
Legislative Studies
Legislature
Parliament

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Legislation, Legisprudence and Comparative Law. / Bar-Siman-Tov, Ittai; Xanthaki, Helen.
Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law. ed. / Jan M. Smits; Jaakko Husa; Catherine Valcke; Madalena Narciso. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. p. 530–537.

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