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Commonwealth Law Conference/CALC Conference, Hyderabad, February 2011

Planning is well under way for the CALC conference to be held in Hyderabad, India from Wednesday 9 February to Friday 11 February 2011. The overall theme is Legislative Drafting: A Developing Discipline, with sub-themes of:

Legislative Drafting: Art, Science or Discipline?
Legislative Counsel in Developing Countries
Legislating Across Languages: The Challenges of Law-making in Multi-lingual Jurisdictions
Role and Efficacy of Legislation
Emerging trends in improving legislative drafting: Harnessing Information and Communication Technology
The Wavering Line between Policy Development and Legislative Drafting
Training and Development of Legislative Counsel/Drafters.

Confirmed speakers to date are Sandra Markman, Mark Audcent and Paul Salembier (Canada), Malietau Malietoa (South Pacific), Doug Bellis (USA), Duncan Berry (Australia/Ireland) and Peter Quiggin (Australia).

The CALC conference will be taking place in conjunction with the 17th Commonwealth Law Conference (CLC) in Hyderabad, India from Saturday 5 February to Wednesday 9 February. For further details, please see the CLC conference website at www.commonwealthlaw2011.org.

For more details please contact Eamonn Moran.

Call for Papers

CALC 2011

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Previous conferences

Below is a list of previous CALC conferences. Many papers presented at CALC conferences can be found in the CALC journal The Loophole and individual papers can also be accessed on the CALC Papers page.

2009 Hong Kong (China)

2007 Nairobi (Kenya)

2005 London (England)

2003 Melbourne (Australia)

1999 Petalang Jaya (Malaysia)

1996 Vancouver (Canada)

1993 Nicosia (Cyprus)

1990 Auckland (New Zealand)

1986 Ocho Rios (Jamaica)

1983 Hong Kong

Forthcoming conferences of interest to legislative drafters

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