LLM Legislative Drafting

The Legislative Drafting programme is designed to train lawyers in the skill of drafting legislation to further the regulation of societal affairs. In addition to instruction in the technical skill of drafting ‘traditional’ legislation, the programme provides the candidates with a basic understanding of treaty drafting and constitution writing. The programme brings greater intellectual depth and breadth to candidates so that they will not only be technically qualified draftspersons but also effective policy advisors to their Governments and other clients. To this end, the programme requires that candidates registered for the Masters (as opposed to the Postgraduate Diploma only) take, in addition to the core course in Legislative Drafting, Public Law I (Advanced Constitutional Law), Public Law II (Advanced Administrative Law), and either: (a) two additional UWI LLM courses, or (b) a single course and to produce a Research Paper, or (c) a single course and to engage in a Supervised Legislative Drafting Internship