Advisory seminar on the reintroduction of a specialist degree in legislation

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Published: February 27, 2023

IRZ and the law faculty of El Manar University in Tunis, organised a seminar to develop a new course in legislation on 28-29 November 2022. The event was the launch event for a large-scale project to modernise the judiciary sector in Tunisia, funded by the Federal Foreign Office as part of the Ta'ziz partnership.

The IRZ expert was Prof Dr Hans Hofmann, who teaches a module on legislation theory at the Humboldt University in Berlin and also has many years of experience in the field of legislation through his work in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and in the Federal Chancellery. Mr. Khaireddine Ben Soltan, the former head of the Tunisian government's legislative department represented Tunisia.

Approx. 30 lecturers from the law faculty of the University of El Manar attended the seminar, who will also design the new course and ultimately also teach the course. The advisory seminar was the first of four planned seminars and advisory sessions aimed at the full development, design and preparation of a degree course in legislation.

The following topics were explored at the seminar, and provoked some lively discussions:

• Need to introduce a course of study in legislation
• Law-making and legislation in Tunisia
• Legislative procedures, methodical approach and legal impact assessment in Germany and Tunisia
• Tools to implement to create good and transparent laws
• Legal and linguistic review of draft legislation
• Regulatory control and the role of the Regulatory Control Council in Germany
• Role of the legislative department of the Tunisian government and the final control of legal texts

The young experts trained through the new course are urgently needed in both the Tunisian administration and the government to be able to guarantee good and effective legislation.