Helen Xanthaki discusses her study of legislation and its principles within the paradigm of Flyvberg’s phronetic social sciences, offering a different approach which breaks the tradition of unimaginative past descriptive reiterations of drafting conventions. Instead of prescribing rules for legislation, it sets out to identify efficacy as the main aim of the actors in the policy, legislative and drafting processes, and effectiveness as the main goal in the drafting of legislation. – See more here

Image courtesy of interviewee. April 3, 2017