Includes bibliographical references and index.

On transferability of legislative solutions : the functionality test / Helen Xanthaki -- Drawing the line / Stephen Laws -- Legislative intention / Ian McLeod -- Legislator's intent : how judges discern it and what they do if they find it / Keith Mason -- The techniques of gender-neutral drafting / Daniel Greenberg -- Drafting legislation at the tax law rewrite project / Hayley Rogers -- Retrospectivity in the drafting and interpretation of legislation / Lydia Clapinska -- Repealing or amending legislation by non-legislative means / Alec Samuels -- Pre-legislative scrutiny / Zione Ntaba -- The role of the legislative drafter in promoting social transformation / Richard C. Nzerem -- Improving democratic development by better regulation / Ulrich Karpen -- Drafting principles of existing European contract law / Gerhard Dannemann -- Drafting of EU acts : a view from the European commission / William Robinson -- Drafting to implement EU law : the European arrest warrant in the United Kingdom / Valsamis Mitsilegas.

Procedures for the approximation of Albanian legislation with the acquis communautaire / Alfred E. Kellermann -- Compromise and clarity in international drafting / Eileen Denza -- Can legislation rank as literature? / Helen Caldwell -- Open management of legislative documents / Giovanni Sartor -- Between policy and implementation : legislative drafting for development / Ann Seidman, Robert B. Seidman -- Drafting, drafters, and the policy process / Constantin Stefanou.