Legislative Drafter's Deskbook - Review Archives

Legislative Drafter's Deskbook - Review

Toby Dorsey's book, Legislative Drafter's Deskbook, to be published next month (it's making its way - finally - next week from the printing plant in Michigan to the bookbinder in Massachusetts), is getting more positive reviews.

We thank NCSL's blog, The Thicket, for the pointer to a recent review in the American Political Science Association's Legislative Studies Section Newsletter:

Overall the author produces an informative and effective work that provides readers with a detailed introduction to the thoughtfulness and importance of drafting legislative statutes. This work is so highly informative to someone foreign to the drafting process, that it must also stand a useful daily guide and reminder to actual drafters. The Legislative Drafter's Deskbook clearly has a place on the bookshelves of practitioners and scholars alike.

Review by Curtis Ellis, Carl Albert Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. student of Political Science, University of Oklahoma

For a page of resources for legislative drafters, see Legislative Drafting Reference and Research Tools.

For more information about the Legislative Drafter's Deskbook, see its web page at http://www.thecapitol.net/Publications/legislativedraftersdeskbook.html