Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Globalization & Development, Law, Local Government

Regions:

Africa, Asia, Australasia, Caribbean, England, Europe, Ireland, Middle East, North America, Scotland, South America, United Kingdom, Wales

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Legislative drafting, especially drafting in the common law, drafting in the civil law and drafting in the EU focusing on transposition, harmonisation and approximation; Law reform and law reform agencies; Comparative Law and Research Methods, especially legal transplants in the legislative process; EU law, especially EU Criminal Law. Recent books include the 2014 Hart monograph "Drafting Legislation: Art and Technology of Rules for Regulation"; the 2014 Routledge edited book "Enhancing Legislative Drafting in the Commonwealth: a Wealth of Innovation", and the 2013 5th Edition of Thornton's Legislative Drafting. Recent publications include articles published in The Theory and Practice of Legislation, the Statte Law Review, and the European Journal of Law Reform.

Consultancy services in the field of legislative drafting; law reform; approximation, harmonisation, transposition; EU criminal law. Recent research projects include the AHRC funded project on big data in legislation; and the evaluation of the Victims' Rights Directive and its transposition. Recent consultancies include services in Vietnam, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Rwanda.

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jul-2015	Modern Parliaments and Legislative Quality Chapters in EPIS Hellenic Parliament "Parliaments in a changing Europe: citizens and representative institutions in modern governance" 2014, Hellenic Parliament, Athens, 189-200
01-May-2015	Quality of Legislation: Focus on Smart EU and post-Smart Transposition Articles 2 [2015] Theory and Practice of Legislation, 329-342
01-Oct-2014	Enhancing Legislative Drafting in the Commonwealth: A Wealth of Innovation Edited Book 2014, Routledge, London
01-Sep-2014	Drafting Legislation: Art and Technology of Rules for Regulation Monographs 2014, Hart Publishers, Oxford
01-Mar-2014	Helen Xanthaki, “EU Legislative quality post-Lisbon: the challenges of Smart Regulation” Articles [2014] 35 Statute Law Review 66-80
01-Dec-2013	Legislative drafting: The birth of a new sub-discipline of law Articles [2013] 1 IALS Student Review 57-70
30-Jun-2013	Helen Xanthaki, Legal transplants and comparative concepts: eclecticism defeated? [2013] Statute Law Review, forthcoming (together with Coen van Laer) Articles
30-Jun-2013	Thornton’s Legislative Drafting Edited Book 4th edition, 2013, Bloomsbury, London
08-Apr-2013	“Standards for legislation in Civil and Common Law Countries: features, practices, common ground”, Conference papers
01-Apr-2013	“Scrutiny of legislative quality”, Workshop, 1 April 2013, Panteion University of Athens Conference papers
22-Jan-2013	“Phronetic Legislative Drafting: the birth of a new theory for lawmaking”, Seminar, 22 January 2013, University of Stockholm Conference papers
05-Dec-2012	“The Fallacy of the dichotomy between common and civil law systems”, International Conference on the English Legal System, 5-7 December 2012, Recife Conference papers
05-Dec-2012	“The UK Constitution”, International Conference on the English Legal System, 5-7 December 2012, Recife Conference papers
01-Nov-2012	Have regulatory reforms led to a reform of drafting styles? Conference papers 10th IAL Conference, Veliky Novgorod, 28-29 June 2012
01-Nov-2012	Freedom, security and justice in the UK Conference papers Seminar UKAEL/IALS, IALS, 20 March 2012, London
01-Nov-2012	Helen Xanthaki, “The regulatory reform agenda and modern innovations in drafting style” in L. Mader (ed.), Regulatory Reform (2013, Nomos, Baden-Baden), forthcoming Chapters
19-Oct-2012	“Government approaches to drafting: a comparative study of the EU”, Workshop, ILA, Berlin 19-21 October 2012 Conference papers
01-Jan-2012	United Kingdom Chapters J. Laffranque (ed.), The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Including Information Society Issues (2012, Tartu University Press, Tallinn), pp.654-681 (to-gether with Maria Gaitanidou)
01-Jan-2012	Technical considerations in harmonization and approximation: Legislative drafting techniques for full transposition Chapters in M. Andenas (ed.), Theory and Practice of Harmonisation (2012, Edward Elgar Publishing, London), pp.536-550
01-Jan-2012	“EU criminal law in the UK”, FIDE Conference, Talinn Conference papers
01-Nov-2011	“Legislative drafting and governance”, Workshop “Legislation”, General National Assembly of Turkey, Small Hall, 21-22 February 2011 Conference papers
01-Jan-2011	“Criminal Registers – ECRIS”, Seminar “From E-Justice to European e-Justice: Electronic Technology in the Justice Sector in the European Union”, European Centre for Judges and Lawyers/Centre européen de la Magistrature et des professions juridiques, European Institute for Public Administration, 28-29 March 2011, Luxembourg Conference papers
01-Jan-2011	“Quality of legislation: an achievable universal concept or a utopian pursuit?” in Marta Travares Almeida (ed.), Quality of Legislation (2011, Nomos, Baden-Baden), pp.75-85 Chapters
01-Jan-2011	“Editorial: Legislative Drafting: Can we learn from each other?” [2011] The Common-wealth Law Bulletin, forthcoming Journal articles
01-Jan-2011	“Duncan Berry: A true visionary of training in legislative drafting” [2011] The Loophole, pp.18-26 Journal articles
01-Jan-2011	“OLAF at the crossroads of maturity: time for power and independence” [2011] Revue de marché commun de l’ union européenne, forthcoming (together Journal articles
01-Jan-2011	OLAF: Fraud and the EU Monographs 2011, Hart Publishers, Oxford (together with Constantin Stefanou and Simone White)
01-Jan-2011	Technical considerations in harmonization and approximation: Legislative drafting techniques for full transposition? International Journal of the Legal Profession. Special Issue. Edward Elgar Publishing, London 2011) Chapters .
01-Jul-2010	Mutual recognition in criminal matters in Cyprus Amicus Curiae
01-Jan-2010	Mutual recognition in criminal matters in Cyprus European Journal of Law Reform
01-Jan-2010	What is EU fraud? And can OLAF really combat it? Journal of Financial Crime
01-Jan-2010	OLAF at the crossroads of maturity: time for power and independence Revue de marché commun de l’ union européenne
01-Jan-2010	Drafting manuals and quality in legislation: positive contribution towards certainty in the law or impediment to the necessity for dynamism of rules?” Legisprudence
01-Jan-2010	“Drafting manuals and quality in legislation: positive contribution towards certainty in the law or impediment to the necessity for dynamism of rules?” [2010] 4 Legisprudence, pp.111-128 Journal articles
01-Jan-2010	The Principle of the Effective Protection of the Individual in EC Law and the Dialectic of European Integration Theory [1999] 50 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, pp.213-233
01-Jan-2010	D. Greenberg (ed.), Jowett’s Legal Dictionary Sweet and Maxwell
01-Jan-2010	“Law Drafting Techniques – The Theory”, Seminar “EU approximation for Croatian judges and civil servants”, 7-8 October 2010, European Institute for Public Administration, Luxembourg Conference papers
01-Jan-2010	“Law Drafting Techniques – The Practice”, Seminar “EU approximation for Croatian judges and civil servants”, 7-8 October 2010, European Institute for Public Administration, Luxembourg Conference papers
01-Jan-2010	“Legislative quality as shared responsibility”, Workshop “Legal implications of better regulation”, Uni-versity of Antwerp, Antwerp, 26 February 2010 Conference papers
01-Jan-2010	"Legislative drafting and legislative simplification in the UK experience", University of Pisa, 11 Febru-ary 2010 Conference papers
01-Jan-2009	“Legislative drafting styles: is there REALLY a common v civil law divide?”, Styles of Legislation, European Academy for Law and Legislation, Peace Palace, The Hague, 17-18 December 2009 Conference papers
	Legislative Drafting: Can we learn from each other Articles [2011] The Commonwealth Law Bulletin, forthcoming
	Legislative drafting: The birth of a new sub-discipline of law Articles [2013] 1 IALS Student Review 57-70

Publications available on SAS-space

Additional Publications

Publications available in Senate House Libraries

Consultancy reports:

Date	Details
2013	The future of Home Affairs policy under the prism of legislative quality Consultation DG HOME
2012	Study on the financial and other impacts of a measure regard-ing the exchange of information between Member States on convictions handed down on the territory of the European Union, relating to third country nationals Impact Assessment Expert in the “Study on the financial and other impacts of a measure regard-ing the exchange of information between Member States on convictions handed down on the territory of the European Union, relating to third country nationals”, European Commission DG Justice, GHK Consulting, 2012
	2) Expert in the Multiple Framework Service contract CDR/DE/95/2011: Constitutional Affairs, Multilevel governance and Devolution, 2012 2)   Expert in the Multiple Framework Service contract CDR/DE/95/2011: Constitutional Affairs, Multilevel governance and Devolution, 2012
	Expert in the Committee of the Regions consultancy multiple framework contract on the “Area of Freedom, Security and Justice”, CDR/ETU/52/2011, 2012 Expert in the Committee of the Regions consultancy multiple framework contract on the “Area of Freedom, Security and Justice”, CDR/ETU/52/2011, 2012
	“Protecting victims rights in the EU; an aid to the implementation of the European Directive es-ablishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime 3 December 2012; duration: 18 months (end date is 2nd June 2014). Amount: €200,000 Title: “Protecting victims rights in the EU; an aid to the implementation of the European Directive es-tablishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime Together with: The Centre for European Constitutional Law – Themistokles & Dimitris Tsatsos Foun-dation

Government/policy work:

Date	Details
2015	Drafting Consultant Law on Legal Aid, Rule of Law MP Group, Myanmar People's Parliament and Myanmar National Parliament, February 2015
2015	Short Term Expert 1 EU-Vietnam Strategic Dialogue Facility, 8-17 July 2015
2014	Short Term Expert 1 EU-Vietnam Strategic Dialogue Facility, 1-7 February 2014
2014	Drafting Consultant International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, Naypidaw, Myanmar, 27-31 October 2014
2013	Trainer at Course in Legislative Drafting, Justice Organs Professionals Training Centre, Addis Ab-aba Ethiopia, 28-30 January 2013
2013	The future of Home Affairs policy under the prism of legislative quality’, Consultation DG HOME http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-is-new/public-consultation/2013/ consulting_0027_en.htm
2013	Focus on Legislative Drafting Written Evidence, House of Lords’ Select Committee on the EU, Sub-Committee F (Home Affairs, Health and Education) on ‘The EU’s five year agenda for EU justice and home affairs activity (2015-2019),
2012	External Assessor at the Appointment Panel of TEI Larisas (2012)
2012	External Assessor at the Appointment Panel of TEI Krhths (2012) External Assessor at the Appointment Panel of TEI Krhths (2012)
2012	External Assessor at the Appointment Panel of TEI Krhths (2012) External Assessor at the Appointment Panel of TEI Krhths (2012)
2011	“Implementation of EU legislation” Oral Evidence, Public Hearing at the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament “Better Regulation” Hearing, Brussels, 21 June 2011
2011	2) Short term expert in legislative drafting, Business Environment Simplification Programme Europe-Aid/126704/C/SER/SY, Damascus, Syria, 3 July until 4 August 2010
2010	3) Short term expert in legislative drafting on EIPA and EAAL training programme for MoJ drafters from Albania, Serbia, Kossovo, FYROM, Montenegor, Croatia, Skopje 25-29 January 2010
2010	4) Short term expert in the field of legislative drafting on the Matra Project “Participation of non-governmental organizations in the legislative process” EALL and TGNA programme, General Na-tional Assembly of the Turkish Republic, Ankara 15 April 2010
2010	5) Short term expert in the field of legislative drafting on EIPA and EAAL training programme for MoJ drafters from Albania, Serbia, Kossovo, FYROM, Montenegor, Croatia, Zagreb 25-28 May and 8-10 June 2010
2010	6) Short term expert in the field of legislative drafting on EIPA programme for MoJ drafters from Croatia, Luxembourg 8 October 2010
2010	Greek expert in the 2010 “Study on possible developments of Community legislation in the field of electoral matters including possible modification of Directive 93/109/EC”, Instituto Europeo de Derecho, 2009-2010
2010	8) Expert on Cyprus in the 2010 “Study on possible developments of Community legislation in the field of electoral matters including possible modification of Directive 93/109/EC”, Instituto Europeo de Derecho, 2009-2010
2010	Helen Xanthaki, “Report on Greece” (2010), “Study on possible developments of Community legislation in the field of electoral matters including possible modification of Directive E 93/109/EC”, Instituto Europeo de Derecho
2010	“Legislative Studies: Theory and Hands-on Training for the Modern Legislator”, Workshop “Seminar on Academy for Legislation”, General National Assembly of Turkey, Small Hall, 15 - 16 April 2010
2007	Written Evidence, House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, “Justice and Home Affairs issues at European Union Level”, 3rd Report of session 2006-2007, HC76-I, 5 June 2007, p.Ev 173 (together with Constantin Stefanou)
2006	“National and Horizontal Study towards the Compatibility of Rules on Civil Procedural Matters – Euro-Action: Final Report – Proposals, European Commission Grotius Civil Programme Study (together with Constantin Stefanou)
2005	Response of the Hellenic Republic to the European Commission’s Draft Hague Programme, Ministry of Justice of the Hellenic Republic (member of the three member team appointed by the Minister)
2005	Written Submission, House of Lords, European Union Committee, 10th Report of Session 2004-5, The Hague Programme: a five year agenda for EU justice and home affairs Minutes of Evidence taken before the European Union Committee (Sub-Committee E) 26 January 2005, pp.54-55
2005	"Strengthening OLAF" towards greater effectiveness in the protection of the Communities’ financial interests: the revision of the OLAF regulation 1073/99 " Interim Presentation on "The Revision of the Regulation on the European Anti-Fraud Office", European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control (COCOBU), European Parliament, April 2005, Brussels (together with Constantin Stefanou)
2005	"Strengthening OLAF" towards greater effectiveness in the protection of the Communities’ financial interests: the revision of the OLAF regulation 1073/99 " Hearing on "The Revision of the Regulation on the European Anti-Fraud Office", European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control (COCOBU), European Parliament, Room ASP 3G2 ("Salle d'écoute" ASP 5G3) 12-13 July 2005, Brussels (together with Constantin Stefanou)
2005	"Strengthening OLAF" towards greater effectiveness in the protection of the Communities’ financial interests: the revision of the OLAF regulation 1073/99 " Hearing on "The Revision of the Regulation on the European Anti-Fraud Office", European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control (COCOBU), European Parliament, Room ASP 3G2 ("Salle d'écoute" ASP 5G3) 12-13 July 2005, Brussels (together with Constantin Stefanou)
	Study on the financial and other impacts of a measure regard-ing the exchange of information between Member States on convictions handed down on the territory of the European Union, relating to third country nationals Impact Assessment Expert in the “Study on the financial and other impacts of a measure regard-ing the exchange of information between Member States on convictions handed down on the territory of the European Union, relating to third country nationals”, European Commission DG Justice, GHK Consulting, 2012
	External Examiner, Law School, University of Westminster (2008-2013) External Examiner, Law School, University of Westminster (2008-2013)
	External Examiner, Law School, University of Manchester (2012-2016) External Examiner, Law School, University of Manchester (2012-2016)
	Member of the Editorial Board, Jurisprudence (since 2012 Member of the Editorial Board, Jurisprudence (since 2012
	Transposition and policy/law formulation for implementation as part of the European integration process: a hands-on practical approach to legal harmonisation" EU delegation and Office of National Assembly workshop Da Nang 16-17 July 2015
	Drafting Consultant International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, Naypidaw, Myanmar, 27-31 October 2014

Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
1) Protecting victims rights in the EU; an aid to the implementation of the European Directive establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime Date: 3 December 2012; duration: 18 months (end date is 2nd June 2014). Amount: €200,000 Title: “Protecting victims rights in the EU; an aid to the implementation of the European Directive es-tablishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime Together with: The Centre for European Constitutional Law – Themistokles & Dimitris Tsatsos Foun-dation
Big Data in legislation Date: 6 January 2014; duration: 15 months. Amount: £550,000 Title: “Big Data in legislation” Funding body: AHRC Role: Co-Investigator [my FTE equivalent 15 hours per week] Together with: Led by the National Archives; with participation from the Office of Parliamentary Counsel; IALS; University of Cambridge; Commercial law publishers etc.
Summer School in Stockholm on Theory and Practice of Legislation Date: 8-22 August 2014; Title: Summer School in Stockholm on Theory and Practice of Legislation. Amount €65,000 Led by the University of Stockholm with participation from IALS, Groningen, Antwerp, LUISS, and Panteion University of Athens
Training Nepalese drafters in legislative drafting and drafting international treaties Date: 15 May 2014; duration: 1 week. Amount: £10,000 Title: “Training Nepalese drafters in legislative drafting and drafting international treaties” - UNDP/RFQ/036/2014 Funding body: UNDP Role: Leading Trainer Together with: Dr. Constantin Stefanou
Winter School on Parliaments and Legislation Date: 6-20 January 2014; Title: Winter School on Parliaments and Legislation. Amount €40,506.60 Led by LUISS University Rome with participation from IALS, Hull University, University of Za-ragoza, and Science Po Bordeaux

Current PhD topics supervised:

Dates	Details
From: Until:	Effectiveness of Legislation for Successful Regional Integration: A Comparative Analysis of the European Union and the East African Community Current
From: Until:	Legislative drafting and the rule of law Legislative drafting and the rule of law
From: Until:	Legal Transplants and drafting in Bermuda Legal Transplants and drafting in Bermuda

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
16-Jul-2015	Practices in EU legal harmonisation Da Nang
02-Jul-2015	Delegated Legislation Annual International Conference on Legislative Drafting and Law Reform, World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC
17-Jun-2015	Interpretation and legislative drafting Roundtable on issues of legal interpretation
28-May-2015	Legislative quality and the parliamentary agenda University of Athens Law School
21-May-2015	The Victims Rights Directive: What lessons for good EU criminal legislation? EU Criminal Law Conference, Limerick
21-May-2015	The Victims Rights Directive: What lessons for good EU criminal legislation? EU Criminal Law Conference, Limerick
21-May-2015	The Victims Rights Directive: What lessons for good EU criminal legislation? EU Criminal Law Conference, Limerick
25-Mar-2015	A layered approach as a means of legislative easification IALS-Clarity conference
12-Mar-2015	Crowdsourcing in legislation: a negative view IAL Bi-annual conference, Stockholm
02-Nov-2014	Is plain language enough for approachable legislation? IALS Plain Language Workshop
19-Sep-2014	Innovations in legislative drafting in the UK IAL-KRLI Conference
23-Jun-2014	The SWD Legislative Drafting Clinic: supporting training in legislative drafting via clinical edu-cation [with R Cormacain), Hart Workshop on Legal Education, 23-24 June 2014, IALS.
17-Jan-2014	The Contribution of Parliamentary Scrutiny to Legislative Quality Winter School, 17 January 2014, LUISS University, Rome
17-Oct-2013	Phronetic Legislative Drafting: liberating for the drafter, easy for the reader Workshop on Quality of EU Legislation, 17 October 2013, Dutch Academy of Legislation, The Hague
09-Apr-2013	Standards for legislation in Civil and Common Law Countries: features, practices, common ground Workshop on Common quality standards for legislation in different legal traditions as an inspiration for legal reform, 9 April 2013, Cape Town
01-Apr-2013	Scrutiny of legislative quality Workshop, 1 April 2013, Panteion University of Athens
22-Jan-2013	Phronetic Legislative Drafting: the birth of a new theory for lawmaking Seminar, 22 January 2013, University of Stockholm
05-Dec-2012	The Fallacy of the dichotomy between common and civil law systems International Conference on the English Legal System, 5-7 December 2012, Recife
19-Oct-2012	Government approaches to drafting: a comparative study of the EU Workshop, ILA, Berlin 19-21 October 2012
28-Jun-2012	Have regulatory reforms led to a reform of drafting styles? 10th IAL Conference, Veliky Nov-gorod, 28-29 June 2012
01-May-2012	EU criminal law in the UK FIDE Conference 2012, Talinn
20-Mar-2012	Freedom, security and justice in the UK Seminar UKAEL/IALS, IALS, 20 March 2012, London
28-Mar-2011	Criminal Registers – ECRIS Seminar “From E-Justice to European e-Justice: Electronic Technology in the Justice Sector in the European Union”, European Centre for Judges and Lawyers/Centre européen de la Magistrature et des professions juridiques, European Institute for Public Administration, 28-29 March 2011, Luxembourg
21-Feb-2011	Legislative drafting and governance Workshop “Legislation”, General National Assembly of Turkey, Small Hall, 21-22 February 2011
08-Oct-2010	Law Drafting Techniques – The Practice Seminar “EU approximation for Croatian judges and civil servants”, 7-8 October 2010, European Institute for Public Administration, Luxembourg
07-Oct-2010	Law Drafting Techniques – The Theory Seminar “EU approximation for Croatian judges and civil servants”, 7-8 October 2010, European Institute for Public Administration, Luxembourg
15-Apr-2010	Legislative Studies: Theory and Hands-on Training for the Modern Legislator Workshop “Seminar on Academy for Legislation”, General National Assembly of Turkey, Small Hall, 15 - 16 April 2010
26-Feb-2010	Legislative quality as shared responsibility Workshop “Legal implications of better regula-tion”, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, 26 February 2010
01-Jan-2010	Keynote speaker at conference "Legislative drafting and legislative simplification in the UK experience", University of Pisa
01-Jan-2010	Participant in closed workshop of experts at EU level “Legislative quality as shared responsibility”, Workshop “Legal implications of better regulation”, University of Antwerp, Antwerp
01-Jan-2010	Invitation to address the Turkish National Assembly “Legislative Studies: Theory and Hands-on Training for the Modern Legislator”, Workshop “Seminar on Academy for Legislation”, General National Assembly of Turkey, Small Hall
01-Jan-2009	Speaker at conference “Can OLAF really fight fraud in Europe?” Fighting Financial Crime in Europe: Practical Aspects of European Criminal Law, University of Cambridge
01-Jan-2009	Keynote speaker at conference “Legislative drafting styles: is there REALLY a common v civil law divide?”, Styles of Legislation, European Academy for Law and Legislation, Peace Palace, The Hague

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