Jamil Salem: Légistique in the Law-Making Process: The Palestinian Case

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

Légistique in the Law-Making Process: The Palestinian Case

Légistique in the Law-Making Process: The Palestinian Case

By Jamil Salem

“At the present as well as at any other time, the centre of gravity of legal development lies not in legislation, nor in juristic science, nor in judicial decision, but in society itself.” Eugen Ehrlich

The applied science of legislative drafting (légistique) is subject to extended discussion by legal practitioners, in general, and the legal community in Palestine, in particular. Drafting bears a significant effect on legislation. Irrespective of legislative drafters’ high level of accuracy and clarity in developing a legislative policy of a certain item of legislation, expressions of such legislation would not be clear unless drafters fully master components of outstanding legislative drafting. Drafting is the tool that reflects the content of a piece of legislation, including orders and prohibitions.

For more: This Week in Palestine, Rule of Law and Good Governance, Issue No. 138, October 2009.
http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=2897&ed=174&edid=174

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Presentations

24-26 February 2011, Project Culture as a Contribution to the Rationalisation of Law,International Legal Informatics Symposium, Salzburg, Austria
10-11 November 2010, The Palestinian Legal Environment: Challenges & Opportunities for e-Government Initiatives, Kick-Off Meeting of the E-Government Lifelong Learning Consortium, Birzeit University, Palestine
5 March 2010, The Institute of Law's Role in Contextualizing the Legal Reform and State-Building Process in the oPt, Anna Lindh Forum, Barcelona, Spain
15 October 2009, Informal Justice: The Rule of Law and Dispute Resolution in Post-Oslo Palestine, Justice Sector Working Group Meeting, Palestinian Ministry of Planning and Administrative Development, Ramallah, Palestine
21-23 February 2008 Building a Legal Taxonomy and Thesaurus – The Palestinian Experience: The International Legal Informatics Symposium (Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposium), Salzburg, Austria.
25-28 July 2007 Legal Reform of the Palestinian Economy: Illusions and Reality: (International Conference – Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures), Berlin, Germany.
22-24 February 2007 Legal and Judicial Databses as an Instrument to Improve the Rule of Law, at the International Legal Informatics Symposium, Salzburg, Austria
12-13 December 2006 The Palestinian Legal and Regulatory Framework Relevant to SMEs, at the First National Conference on SME Develeopment, Ramallah, Palestine
12-14 June 2006 Minorities in the Arab World, at Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Amman Jordan
8-11 June 2006 Building the Rule of Law in Palestine, at International Law and Middle East Peace: A Rights-Based Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, University of Exeter, UK

Committee Assignments

Council Member of BZU's Institute of Women Studies (2010- )
Committee Member of BZU's Center for Development Studies, (2010- )
Member of the Editorial Board of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law (2006 - Present).
Coordinator of Birzeit University's Union of Teachers and Employees Legal Committee
Head of IoL Project Committee since Nov 2005
Feb 2005-Sept 2005 Member Curriculum Development Committee Faculty of Law, Birzeit University
Feb 2005-Dec 2005 Coordinator Palestine Yearbook for International Law