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19 November 2021
Categories: Legal News , Rule of law , International justice , Constitutional law
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French leaders advocate for a global policy to improve the quality of written law

In a series of high-level roundtables organised by LexisNexis and the National Council for the Evaluation of Regulations, lawyers, a former Prime Minister, ministers, government officials, MPs and academics debated on how best to draft law

France faces three acute challenges: legislative inflation, instability and deterioration in quality.

Forty-six actionable proposals emerged after animated debates. Among the innovative ideas freely discussed were: training civil servants; raising public awareness; focus on form as much as substance; and preliminary impact studies.

The attached PDFs contain an overview of the symposium written by Ph. Marc Piton and translated into English by Yann Obame, and the conclusions drawn by Pr. Pierre de Montalivet, and translated by Robert Fletcher.

The summary and the conclusion of the roundtable discussions and their translations were published in a special edition of the journal La Semaine Juridique, Édition générale, published on January 18, 2021.

 

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