1st Edition
Gender Sensitive Lawmaking in Theory and Practice
1. Gender-sensitive law-making: concept and process
Maria Mousmouti
2. Gender sensitive parliaments and the legislative cycle: conceptualising new cultures and practices
Sonia Palmieri
3. Legislating for change: gender-sensitive ex-ante legislative scrutiny in practice
Hannah Johnson
4. Gender responsible budgeting: a crucial part of the toolkit for the implementation of gender sensitive laws?
Janet Veitch
5. Gender neutrality: description and prescription
Thomas Glyn Watkin
6. Legislative drafting and gender: some linguistic insights into English and Italian
Giulia Adriana Pennisi
7. Gender-sensitive post-legislative scrutiny in theory and practice
Maria Mousmouti
Biography
Maria Mousmouti is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London, Executive Director at the Centre for European Constitutional Law, a research center based in Athens, Greece, and Associate Expert at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. She specialises in law-making, legislative quality and effectiveness, legislative design and drafting and gender-sensitive scrutiny of legislation. She is the author of Designing Effective Legislation (2019) and several articles on legislative drafting and gender- sensitive law-making.
