John Mark Keyes (LLB 1979) co-authors Drafting, Interpreting, and Applying Legislation

Faculty of Law graduate John Mark Keyes (LLB 1979) is a sessional professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, and an instructor in the Legislative Drafting Program of Athabasca University. Published this month by Irwin Law Inc. and co-authored with Queen's University Faculty of Law graduate Wendy Gordon, Drafting, Interpreting, and Applying Legislation begins by discussing what legislation is and what it does, as well as the purposes for which it is used: 

"This informative book then addresses the drafting of legislative texts and the processes for transforming them into law. It goes on to explain how legislation is found, understood, and applied, including the interpretive principles and techniques for resolving disputes about its meaning and application. Among the works dealing with the Canadian system of written laws, it is one of the most comprehensive in scope, encompassing both how legislation is made and how it is interpreted and applied."

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