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Legislative Policy and Effectiveness: A (Small) Contribution from Legal Theory

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Mauro ZAMBONI
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to use legal theory to clarify the nature and the components of effectiveness in legislation, in particular when it comes to choosing legislative policy, ie the legislative model used to tackle a certain issue via legislation. Part II is devoted to revealing the true meaning of the idea of effectiveness, ie as a functional link helping legislative drafters to move among three elements (ideals, situation, results) rather than as an absolute value that drafters should pursue in their work. Part III continues by investigating the problems that such confusion has produced within legislative discourse and practice, in particular by focusing upon two types of effectiveness as external and internal to the legislative process. Finally, Part IV proposes how this idea of effectiveness as a functional element of legislative work (and the consequent distinction between an external and an internal version) can (and should) affect the work of legislative drafters. This idea becomes particularly relevant in relation to the optimal location of the non-legal experts in the legislative process as a means of increasing the effectiveness of legislative policy.

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Symposium on Effective Law and Regulation
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 9 , Issue 3: Symposium on Effective Law and Regulation , September 2018 , pp. 416 - 430
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Professor in Legal Theory, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden.

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21 In this respect, this article shares a basic assumption of the Positive Political Theory when it comes to the law-making and the law in general, namely the idea that all relevant actors within the legislative discourse (eg political parties, when it comes to its making, or judges, when it concerns its interpretation) tend rationally to mold the legislative product as close as possible to their own preferred outcome (which can space from being reelected to accomplish a good public policy). See Farber, DA and Frickey, PP, “Foreword: Positive Political Theory in the Nineties” (1992) 80 Georgetown Law Journal 457 Google Scholar, 463–471; and Farber, DA and Frickey, P, Law and Public Choice: A Critical Introduction (University of Chicago Press 1991) 21 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also Young, O and Levy, MA, “The effectiveness of international environmental regimes” in Young, O (ed.), The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes: Causal Connections and Behaviour Mechanisms (The MIT Press 1999) 3–5 Google Scholar (coupling effectiveness to the kind of rationality shared by the evaluating actors and therefore distinguishing between, for instance, a political approach, a legal approach, and an economic approach).

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24 See Xanthaki, Drafting Legislation, supra, note 1, 7 (“For the purposes of drafting… effectiveness is the ultimate measure of quality in legislation. It simply reflects the extent to which the legislation manages to introduce adequate mechanisms capable of producing the desired regulatory results”). See eg Birungi Kamugundu, O, “Prioritising legislation in the policy process” in H Xanthaki (ed.), Enhancing Legislative Drafting in the Commonwealth: A Wealth of Innovation (Routledge 2015) 90–92 Google Scholar.

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29 This different kind of effect can be considered a consequence of the more general distinction between normative and social function of the law. See Raz, J, “On the Functions of Law” in BAW Simpson (ed.), Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence (Second Series) (Clarendon Press 1980) 280 Google Scholar. See also Laws, S, “Giving Effect to Policy in Legislation: How to Avoid Missing the Point” (2011) 32 Statute Law Review 1 CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 3–4 (as to the different types of legislative outcomes); Delnoy, P, The Role of Legislative Drafters in Determining the Content of Norms (The Internal Cooperation Group – Department of Justice of Canada 2005) 3 Google Scholar, where effectiveness is the quality of the norms to produce an (intended or unintended) effect (outcome), while efficient are the norms that produce the desired effect (or intended outcome); and Mousmouti, supra, note 13, 17, distinguishing between prospective dimension of effectiveness (ie intended outcomes) and real-life dimension of an effective legislation (actual outcomes).

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34 MacCormick, HLA Hart, supra, note 8, 126. See also Xanthaki, Drafting Legislation, supra, note 1, 15 (where the author points out how legislative drafting “is a liberal discipline where theoretical principles guide the drafter to conscious decisions made in a series of subjective empirical and concrete choices… [which are] context dependent… [and] will always depend on normative judgements”).

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36 See Laws, supra, note 6, 94 (“the legislative process does always involve an element of diluting the political content of the inputs to produce a legal output”). See also Seidman, A and Seidman, RB, “ILTAM: Drafting Evidence Based Legislation for Democratic Social Change” (2009) 89 Boston University Law Review 435 Google Scholar, 444–448 (as to the central role played by the legislative drafters not only as “scrivener” but also as a “designer” of the legislation); and E Gowers, Plain Words: Their ABC (Alfred A Knopf 1954) 18. It is worth noticing that in this work within ‘legislative drafters’ are included both the proper drafters and the substantive law experts, who are usually involved in the drafting process, as pointed out by Xanthaki, Drafting Legislation, supra, note 1, 24. Höfler, Compare S, Nussbaumer, M and Xanthaki, H, “Legislative Drafting” in U Karpen and H Xanthaki (eds), Legislation in Europe: A Comprehensive Guide for Scholars and Practitioners (Hart Publishing 2017) 153–156 Google Scholar.

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40 This problem of legislative drafters operating outside their field of expertise becomes particularly striking in many cases of law-reform projects in developing and transitional countries. See, eg, Otto, JM, Conflicts between citizen and state in Indonesia: the development of administrative jurisdiction. Working Paper no 1, (Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development in Non-Western Countries 1992)Google Scholar. See also Hage, supra, note 39, 352 (where the author points out how legislative goals, ie one of the pillar of effectiveness, do not belong to the Is-world, but to the Ought-world: “[t]he quality of legislation depends in part on the goals pursued by means of the legislation. There can be no expertise on goals because they are not an object of knowledge, but rather of adoption”). But see Seidman and Seidman, supra, note 36, 457–461.

41 See Müller and Uhlman, supra, note 20, 299–300. See also H Schulze-Fielitz, “Paths Towards Better Legislation, Detours and Dead-Ends” in Meßerschmidt and Oliver-Lalana, supra, note 12, 46–47; and Xanthaki, H, Thornton’s Legislative Drafting (5th edn, Bloomsbury Professional 2013) 145 Google Scholar, as to the five stages of the legislative process (dealing specifically with the creation of new statutory provisions) which should be the monopoly of the drafters.

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44 In legislative drafting, this phenomenon is particularly evident in the so-called “principles based legislation” (or goal-legislation), where “law-making is increasingly outsourced to non-legal experts and its concepts are often derived from non-legal discourse”. See Westerman, PC, “Breaking the Circle: Goal-Legislation and the Need for Empirical Research” (2013) 1 The Theory and Practice of Legislation 395 Google Scholar, 395. See also Black, J, “Forms and Paradoxes of Principles Based Regulation” (2008) LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No 13/2008, 13–17 Google Scholar, <dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1267722> accessed 10 May 2018 (in this respect, the phenomenon identified in this work could be classified as Black’s “formal principled based regulation”). See eg Pohlmann, P, “Principles-based Insurance Regulation: Lessons to be Learned from a Comparison of the EU and German Law of Risk Management” in J Burling and K Lazarus (eds), Research Handbook on International Insurance Law and Regulation (Edward Elgar 2011) 336–340 Google Scholar.

45 See Laws, supra, note 6, 100. See eg Tröger, T, “How Special Are They? Targeting Systemic Risk by Regulating Shadow Banks” in Lomfeld, B, Somma, A and Zumbansen, P (eds), Reshaping Markets. Economic Governance and Liberal Utopia (Cambridge University Press 2016) 185–207 Google Scholar. See also USAID Handbook on Legislative Strengthening (Center for Democracy and Governance – US Agency for International Development 2010) 7, <pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/Pdact310.pdf> accessed 10 May 2018 (“Most legislatures have ample lawmaking authority in theory… For this to be done effectively, legislators and their constituents need to track proposals at various stages of the legislative process, and to be given an opportunity to influence them before final adoption”).

46 See Laws, supra, note 29, 9–16. See also Habermas, supra, note 42, 452 and 487; and Waldron, J, The Dignity of Legislation (Cambridge University Press 1999) 156 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.