2026-06-27http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/230232This is a style guide for legislative drafting in international legal assistance projects. It will serve as an introduction for those who do not usually draft legislation and checklist and review for experienced drafters. This guide is mostly about form, fit, and style, and of those, mostly about style. Policy, process, and politics vary widely depending on local context. Form and fit are less variable. Style is the most nearly universal and so easiest to discuss in a general guide. After offeri ng guidance on form, fit and style, this guide offers a few suggestions on matters of good professional practice. Some of these suggestions concern the overall approach to drafting and some concern the most basic matters of producing a clean and error-free text. The author’s study and practice has been in English in common law systems. This guide may be most helpful in similar circumstances, but many points have universal application.43 p.application/pdfFAOBook (series)