Gender Sensitive Lawmaking in Theory and Practice

The book addresses questions around gender-sensitive legislation as key output of gender sensitive Parliaments, explores practical ways to promote gender-sensitive ex-ante scrutiny of legislation, improve implementation through gender responsive budgeting, assess gender impact of legislation ex post and express laws in gender inclusive ways.

Maria Mousmouti is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London, Executive Director at the Centre for European Constitutional Law, a research center based in Athens, Greece, and Associate Expert at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. She specialises in law-making, legislative quality and effectiveness, legislative design and drafting and gender-sensitive scrutiny of legislation. She is the author of Designing Effective Legislation (2019) and several articles on legislative drafting and gender- sensitive law-making.