Editors:
- Offers a cross-national, comparative exploration of omnibus legislation
- Offers a multidisciplinary exploration of omnibus legislation
- Brings together a superb group of leading legal scholars, political scientists and public policy experts, from multiple countries
- Deals with an influential, common, yet highly controversial, legislative practice, which is becoming a matter of increasing interest and heated debates in many countries around the world
Part of the book series: Legisprudence Library (LEGIS, volume 8)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Perspectives on Omnibus Legislation
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Front Matter
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Regulating the Use of Omnibus Legislation
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book is the first in the world to provide a cross-national, comparative exploration of omnibus legislation. It contributes to the global debate over omnibus legislation and offers comprehensive, thorough and multifaceted coverage that concerns the fields of legislation and legisprudence, comparative law, political science, public policy and economics. Beyond its relevance for these fields, the book will support practitioners in parliaments, governments and courts, thereby impacting the actual use of omnibus legislation.
A new, major and controversial reform is enacted in the middle of the night. It is buried in a massive omnibus bill hundreds of pages in length, which is rammed through the legislative process at breakneck speed. The legislators receive the final version of the bill in the very last minute, and protest that they’ve had no opportunity to read it in detail and know what they’re voting upon. The majority party’s legislative leaders, however, are unimpressed, and the law is eventually passed on the basis of strict party discipline.
Though it may sound far-fetched, this scenario is all too familiar in many legislatures around the world. The legislative practice of combining numerous unrelated measures in one long bill, which is often passed via a highly expedited process, has become a matter of intense debate and criticism in many countries.
Reviews
“Policymakers, public sector lawyers, and legislative drafters will welcome this book if for no other reason than enabling them to confirm to themselves, and to explain to others, that they are not alone in facing and resisting increasing political pressures towards the use of omnibus legislation. … this book will remain a helpful starting point for those wishing to marshal experience and arguments. The authors and editor have therefore done us a great service.” (Daniel Greenberg CB, Statute Law Review, Vol. 42 (3), October, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
About the editor
Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov is an Associate Professor at Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law, where he also serves as co-director of the dual degree program in law and political science, and Head of BIU Innovation Lab for Law, Data-Science and Digital Ethics. He is also General Editor of the international journal The Theory and Practice of Legislation, and founding Co-Chair of the Israeli Association of Legislation. His scholarship has been published in leading journals (such as Georgetown Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, Regulation and Governance, and American Journal of Comparative Law) and received multiple awards and research grants.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Comparative Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Omnibus Legislation
Editors: Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
Series Title: Legisprudence Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72748-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72747-5Published: 28 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72750-5Published: 29 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72748-2Published: 27 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2213-2813
Series E-ISSN: 2213-2856
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 333
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Constitutional Law, Legislative and Executive Politics