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Not only can services such as cleaning and catering be outsourced, but also governmental tasks such as making, applying and enforcing the law. Outsourcing the law is usually recommended for its cost-efficiency, flexibility, higher rates of compliance and its promise of deregulation. However, lawmaking is not the same as cleaning and rules are more than just tools to achieve aims.Outsourcing the law brings about profound changes in the way power is distributed. In this timely book, Pauline Westerman analyzes this outsourcing from a philosophical perspective. Outsourcing the Law analyzes the particular types of rules to which outsourcing gives rise (performance-indicators), as well as the techniques that are used (benchmarking, auditing) and identifies the key-implications of these shifts for democracy, the Rule of Law, judicial decision-making and even for how legal research is carried out.The analyses in this book will be a valuable read for legal academics and professionals, students of law, and all those with a keen interest in the relationship between law and regulation.

La negoziazione assistita da avvocati - introdotta e disciplinata dal decreto legge 12 settembre 2014, n. 132 convertito con modificazioni nella legge 10 novembre 2014, n. 162 – ha avuto nel nostro sistema giuridico un forte impatto nella valorizzazione dell'autonomia negoziale anche nell'ambito del diritto di famiglia e nella ridefinizione delle funzioni dell'avvocato, non più solo difensore delle parti nel processo, ma consulente e promotore di accordi. Fino a pochi anni fa era inimmaginabile la possibilità di una separazione o di un divorzio al di fuori del tradizionale controllo del tribunale.Il legislatore ha attribuito agli avvocati compiti e competenze nuove per la soluzione delle controversie tra le persone, puntando sul negoziato anziché sul contenzioso processuale.Una prospettiva richiamata anche nella nuova legge del 2016 sulle unioni civili e sulle convivenze di fatto e nei progetti all'esame del Parlamento sui patti prematrimoniali.Il libro aiuta ad affrontare questa nuova prospettiva illustrando le novità e gli adempimenti previsti per applicare correttamente la nuova normativa.

In Elements of Legislation, Neil Duxbury examines the history of English law through the lens of legal philosophy in an effort to draw out the differences between judge-made and enacted law and to explain what courts do with the laws that legislatures enact. He presents a series of rigorously researched and carefully rehearsed arguments concerning the law-making functions of legislatures and courts, the concepts of legislative supremacy and judicial review, the nature of legislative intent and the core principles of statutory interpretation.

Why do legislatures pass laws that automatically expire? Why are so many tax cuts sunset? In this first book-length treatment of those questions, the author explains that legislatures pass laws temporarily in order to reduce opposition from the citizenry, to increase the level of information revealed by lobbies, and to externalize the political costs of changing the tax code on to future legislatures. This book provides a careful analysis which does not normatively prescribe either permanent or temporary legislation in every instance, but rather specifies the conditions for which either permanent or temporary legislation would maximize social welfare.Containing comprehensive, theoretical and empirical analysis of temporary lawmaking, Law and the Limits of Government will appeal to academics in law, economic and political science, lawmakers and policy advocates.Contents: Foreword by Francesco Parisi Part I: Theory 1. Introduction 2. Short-to Medium-term Residual Effects 3. Long-term Residual Effects4. Information and Commitment 5. Temporary Tax LegislationPart II: Evidence 6. Passage Probability 7. Sponsor's Age 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index

Unlike most works in constitutional theory, which focus on the role of the courts, this book addresses the role of legislatures in a regime of constitutional democracy. Bringing together some of the world's leading constitutional scholars and political scientists, the book addresses legislatures in democratic theory, legislating and deliberating in the constitutional state, constitution-making by legislatures, legislative and popular constitutionalism, and the dialogic role of legislatures, both domestically with other institutions and internationally with other legislatures. The book offers theoretical perspectives as well as case studies of several types of legislation from the United States and Canada. It also addresses the role of legislatures both under the Westminster model and under a separation of powers system.