Contagious Environmental Lawmaking

Lawmaking 2.0

A crowdsourcing idea campaign aiming at evaluating and editing a draft for the new Law on Education was run in Russia in May August 2010. We developed an original crowdsourcing platform and organized collaboration of more than 500 participants. 95 original versions of the Law items were created. 23 of them were approved by the community and graduated. The mechanism proved to be effective as a t...

Domestic Violence Lawmaking in Asia: Some Innovative Trends in Feminist Lawmaking

Domestic violence lawmaking intersects global human rights norms and domestic women's movements. Domestic violence is both a global and local phenomenon. The World Bank argues that domestic violence accounts for one in five lost years in women aged 15-44. The costs range from direct expenses such as medical care and social services to productivity and labor market costs to the psychological tol...

Traditional Knowledge and Global Lawmaking

Constitutional Constraints on Executive Lawmaking

What determines the success by which heads of government can enact their legislative proposals? Presumably, constitutional rules governing the relationship between executives and legislatures should be part of the answer. We suggest that in order to understand an executive’s leverage in legislative bargaining, one must consider a broad set of formal powers, even those that are not directly rela...

Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support

ly about alternative rules of contract law, for example, people usually have little reason to see themselves in the position of the person seeking to enforce an agreement, as opposed to the person defending against such an enforcement claim. Family law, by contrast, is not neutral in this sense. Men Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support 103