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Guidelines for Drafting and Editing Legislation

Name: Guidelines for Drafting and Editing Legislation
Brand: Rosepen Books
SKU: 9780997977004
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Contributors:

Bryan A. Garner, Harriet Lansing (Foreword by), Uniform Law Commission (Other)

Publisher:

Rosepen Books

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Education, Law

Book Subcategory:

Educational Policy & Reform, Legal Education, Legal Writing

Book Topic:

Federal Legislation

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Release Date:

2016-07-11

ISBN 13:

9780997977004

Weight:

1.82 lbs

Size:

11.00 x 8.50 x 0.56 inches

Pages:

230

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This new Garner title consolidates into one set of covers all the best advice on legislative drafting. Garner elucidates his blackletter principles with statutory rewrites from all 50 states as well as from federal statutes. He demonstrates how legislation can be streamlined, simplified, and clarified. The exmaples show stunning improvements.

Commissioned by the Uniform Law Commission, Garner's work here represents another in his string of first-rate reference books. No legislative drafter should be without it.

In the back of the book are two model statutes plus a typically poor statute annotated to explain its deficiencies. Also included is a groundbreaking essay on the optimal method for expressing criminal prohibitions.

Throughout the book appear shaded boxes containing timeless quotations from leading commentators on legislative drafting from the 18th century to the present day. Together the the book's extensive bibliography, these quotations place Garner's principles into a historical context. They also underscore the degree to which legislative drafters have neglected many long-standing principles of legal drafting.

The foreward by Harriet Lansing, president of the Uniform Law Commission, says of Garner's work: "With these Guidelines--with his earlier booklet on court rules--Bryan Garner has made an incomparable contribution to clarity and coherence in the halls of our legislatures, the pages of our statute books, and the everyday world of all people as we try to plan our lives and predict legal consequences."

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