Drafting Legislation sets out to prove Sir William Dale's doctrine that the rules for drafting good quality legislation are the same in common and civil systems of law. The book discusses the general issue of quality in legislation from the legislative process to the actual drafting interpretation and enforcement, as well as issues of clarity, precision and disambiguity, plain language and gender-neutral language.

Chapter 1 On Transferability of Legislative Solutions, Helen Xanthaki; Chapter 2 Drawing the Line, Stephen Laws CB; Chapter 3 Legislative Intention, Ian McLeod; Chapter 4 Legislator's Intent, Justice Keith Mason; Chapter 5 The Techniques of Gender-neutral Drafting, Daniel Greenberg; Chapter 6 Drafting Legislation at the Tax Law Rewrite Project, Hayley Rogers; Chapter 7 Retrospectivity in the Drafting and Interpretation of Legislation, Lydia Clapinska; Chapter 8 Repealing or Amending Legislation by Non-Legislative Means, Alec Samuels; Chapter 9 Pre-legislative Scrutiny, Zione Ntaba; Chapter 10 The Role of the Legislative Drafter in Promoting Social Transformation, Richard C. Nzerem; Chapter 11 Improving Democratic Development by Better Regulation, Ulrich Karpen; Chapter 12 Drafting Principles of Existing European Contract Law, Gerhard Dannemann; Chapter 13 Drafting of EU Acts: A View From the European Commission, William Robinson; Chapter 14 Drafting to Implement EU Law, Valsamis Mitsilegas; Chapter 15 Procedures for the Approximation of Albanian Legislation with the Acquis Communautaire, Alfred E. Kellermann; Chapter 16 Compromise and Clarity in International Drafting, Eileen Denza; Chapter 17 Can Legislation Rank as Literature?, Helen Caldwell; Chapter 18 Open Management of Legislative Documents, Giovanni Sartor; Chapter 19 Between Policy and Implementation, Ann Seidman, Robert B. Seidman; Chapter 20 Drafters, Drafting and the Policy Process, Constantin Stefanou;