TY - JOUR
AU - Rheinstein, Max
AB - Comments TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF LEGISLATIVE STUDIES On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Italian Institute of Legislative Studies (Istituto di Studi Legislativi) in Rome, its director, Professor Salvatore Galgano, has rendered a report of its activities. As is indicated by its name, the Institute was founded in order to prepare legislation, both for Italy and for combinations of nations planning to engage in uniform legislation on an international scale. The purposes of the Institute seem to be similar to those of a law revision commission or a legislative refer­ ence service. However, the routine work of legislative preparation and drafts­ manship has always been done in Italy by the special staffs of the central government departments, whose members have traditionally maintained high standards of draftsmen's skills. The Institute has thus been meant to go beyond the scope of what can be expected of routine legislative preparation, and to embark on more specialized research. In its program, the Institute envisages extensive statistical and other factual inquiries in preparation of legislation to be carried on systematically by people trained in the techniques of social research. These studies of legislative needs and the 
TI - Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Italian Institute of Legislative Studies
JO - American Journal of Comparative Law
DO - 10.2307/837957
DA - 1954-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/twenty-fifth-anniversary-of-the-italian-institute-of-legislative-YMk5wRb0Sc
SP - 397
EP - 399
VL - 3
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -