Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies

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The Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies advances scholarship in legislative drafting through research, education, and international collaborations that promote clearer, more accessible legal texts worldwide. It is a centre specialising in teaching and research for legislative drafting at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London.

Research at the Centre spans drafting, law reform, and EU criminal law, with expertise in databases for crime prevention and training for legal professionals. Its initiatives include the IALS Law Reform Project, the Legislation and Language Project, the IALS-UN Habitat Urban Law Initiative, the Sir William Dale Legislative Drafting Clinic, which provides free legislative drafting advice to governments and NGOs with limited resources, the Legislative Drafters' International Online Forum, and the European Journal of Law Reform.

The Centre also runs a Graduate Series of Seminars in Legislative Drafting and teaches the LLM in Drafting Legislation, Regulation, and Policy.

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University of London
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Additional Partnerships

Westminster Foundation for Democracy; UN-Habitat; Centre for Parliamentary Studies and School of Government, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy; Parliamentary Law Institute, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain