Para quienes trabajan en el Parlamento o colaboran en la elaboración de iniciativas legislativas, constituye una preocupación fundamental la calidad de las leyes. Este curso pretende concientizar sobre la importancia de la calidad de las leyes y sus efectos en la coherencia y claridad del ordenamiento jurídico, así como aportar herramientas para una mejor redacción de las leyes. En los siete módulos del curso, se estudiarán:
- El origen y evolución de la técnica legislativa
- Las clases de normas de técnica legislativa
- La técnica legislativa en la tramitación parlamentaria de las leyes
- Los principios y reglas de la técnica legislativa
- Sobre contenido y estructura de la ley
- Sobre lenguaje legal
- Sobre inserción de la ley en el ordenamiento jurídico
Este curso fue escrito por la Dra. Piedad García-Escudero Márquez, Catedrática de Derecho Constitucional Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Letrada de las Cortes Generales.”
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Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Understand why committees play an important role in parliamentary work;
- Understand international practices and procedures of parliamentary committee systems;
- Be able to critically assess committee systems’ internal design choices, depending on their own country context.
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- Identify the key texts that outline gender sensitive parliamentary norms
- Identify, in their own parliamentary contexts, key decision makers and influencers that will support gender sensitive change
- Critically assess the merits and applicability to their own parliamentary context of gender sensitive changes that have been adopted elsewhere
- Design and defend a contextually-appropriate gender sensitive parliamentary change.
- An overview of the core actors, institutions and processes involved in the budget process
- An understanding of the role of parliament in each of the four budget stages
- A snapshot of current trends in budgeting
- A wide range of case studies, to illustrate how parliaments today are approaching the budget process
At the end of this course, learners should have developed
- Understanding of the key societal changes that have affected representation in recent decades;
- Understanding of the key role played by modern parliaments in representation;
- Knowledge and understanding of the five core processes of representation;
- Ability to identify and critically evaluate examples of best practice in representation; and
- Ability to critically reflect on their own practices of representation.
This course was written by Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira, University of Leeds.
At the end of this course, you will better understand:
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Why we practice parliamentary oversight (theory)
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What parliamentary oversight is and is not (the tools)
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How parliamentary oversight is carried out (the practice)
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The implications of parliamentary oversight (the politics)
Throughout, you will be able to explore a wide range of case studies from across Europe and beyond.
This course was written by Associate Professor Dr. Olivier Rozenberg, Sciences Po.
At the end of this course, you will better understand:
- Why parliaments engage on climate change
- The (international) legal framework
- Parliamentary action on climate change
- Climate budgeting and climate finance
- Parliamentary practice on climate change
Throughout, you will be able to explore a wide range of case studies from across Europe and beyond.
The course consists of 5 modules. Please click on the "Launch the learning module" in order to start the course
This course was written by former MP (New Zealand) Dr. Kennedy Graham.
Legislation constitutes the product of a lengthy process, beginning from a policy concept and ending with the realisation of the desired regulatory results
The legislative drafting process is part of the legislative (law-making) process, which in turn is part of the policy (governance) process.
The course consists of 8 modules. Please click on the "Launch the learning module" in order to start the course
This course was written by Professor Helen Xanthaki, University College London, with the support of Dr. Maria Mousmouti and Dr. Constantin Stefanou.
This course analyses procedures and practices of law-making in contemporary democracies.
- The first part places law-making among other parliamentary functions, underlining the close interrelationship and intertwining between the main features of the law-making process and the form of government.
- The second part is devoted to parliamentary procedures for law-making and is divided into two sections: (a1) a historical approach, exploring the main models adopted in the UK, France and US (respectively, the tThree rReadings in the UK; the “‘Bureaux System”’ in France; and the Permanent Specialized Committees in the US), and (b2) a section focusing on a key driver of the transformation of law-making procedures: the growing complexity of legislation (‘complexification’), a key factor that is transforming contemporary law-making procedures.
- The third and final part explores specific law-making practices through a comparative study of different jurisdictions.
This course was written by Professor Nicola Lupo, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali.
