News stories from the Centre

Report on the IALS-UN Habitat Urban Law Day 2021
The Sir William Dale Centre Wins Bid for Online Drafting Course
Report on the IALS-UN Habitat Urban Law Day 2020
Urban Law Day 2020 Online: The post-COVID City: lessons for the future in law and development
The latest Sir William Dale Legislative Drafting Clinic project is now published by UN Habitat
The 17th Sir William Dale Memorial Lecture
Report on the 2019 Urban Law Day now available
Sir William Dale Centre - Keynote Speakers at the Greek Parliament Seminar on Legislative Drafting
Visit to the Office of the Greek Prime Minister
Congratulations to all those who attended the 2019 Legislative Drafting Course
The Language of Law Reform, a big thank you
Congratulations to Professor George Gerapetritis
1st Certified Course on Post-Legislative Scrutiny successfully completed
The 3rd IALS-UN Habitat training seminar ‘Building drafting skills for improving the quality of urban legislation’ just started!
Farewell to EUPADRA class of 2019
Law Drafting and Law Reform in Small Jurisdictions Conference
Dr Constantin Stefanou at the University of Athens
Another successful year for the 2018 IALS Legislative Drafting Course
2018 UN Habitat-IALS Urban Law Day
IALS Fellow honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours list
The Sir William Dale Centre at the UN Habitat World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur
Korea Legislation Research Institute (KIRI) and the IALS exchanged MoUs
The Sir William Dale Centre at the Symposium ‘Teaching Legislation: Theory and Practice’, La Trobe School of Law
The Sir William Dale Centre at the Italian Parliament, October 2017
IALS 2017 Legislative Drafting Course completed on 21st July 2017
4th IALS Urban Law Day (2017) in cooperation with UN Habitat
IALS-UN Habitat training seminar ‘Building drafting skills for improving the quality of urban legislation”
Conference on Effective Law and Regulation
2017 Conference Seoul, South Korea - 'Challenges in Legislative Reform: the Effectiveness of Legislative Evaluation and Methodological Approaches'
Invitation to the 2017 Urban Law Day
Professor Helen Xanthaki joins UCL Faculty of Laws
IALS Law Reform Project
"Clarification and easification of legislative drafting" 25 March 2015
Professor Helen Xanthaki drafting mission in HaNoi, Vietnam 2015
Professor Helen Xanthaki at the IBAHRI Workshop in Myanmar 2014
The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel and IALS co-hosted the Quality of EU Legislation London Conference on Thursday 2 October 2014
Professor Helen Xanthaki addressed the 11th bi-annual conference of the International Association of Legislation in Seoul, September 2014
Law and Language: Legislative Drafting and Translation 27 June 2014
Sir William Dale Centre wins UNDP contract to train Nepalese drafters
Thornton's Legislative Drafting (Xanthaki, 5th ed. 2013) cited in the Office of Parliamentary Counsel: Drafting Guidance
Professor Helen Xanthaki's views on legislative quality and the future of Justice and Home Affairs are endorsed by the House of Lords
LPLeg Summer School: The Law and Politics of Legislation 18-29 August 2014 Groningen, the Netherlands
New Big Data for Law project announced
Legislation and Language Project
International Association of Legislation (IAL) Proceedings of the Tenth Congress published