Exploring the Province of Legislation

Part I. Theoretical Problems in Legisprudence.- Constitutional Games: Rational Law-Making and Bargaining in Philadelphia.- A legal interpretation account of legislative power.- Do legislators and judges till the same field? On the structure and stock issues of legislative justification.- Political rationality and argumentative approach in lawmaking.- The troubling rationality of symbolic legislation.- Comprehensibility of the Legal Text. Towards a Situation-Oriented Approach.- Part II. Legisprudence in Action.- Legislation as process, phases, and dimensions: a methodological approach.- Measuring legislation as a tool for better laws. The example of the Portuguese Legislation Observatory.- New technologies and a social impact on legislation: towards the transparency of lawmaking.- Meeting on a bridge: The Selma March between Legislators and Courts.- Legislative architecture and nudges: complementary tools to increase legal order resilience?