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Prof Helen Xanthaki
223
Bentham House
4-8 Endsleigh Gardens
London
WC1H 0EG
Tel: +44 20 31088410
Appointment
- Professor (Teaching)
- Faculty of Laws
- UCL SLASH
Biography
Helen is the author of Thornton's Legislative Drafting (5th ed), the leading manual for drafters, and of Drafting Legislation: Art and Technology of Rules and Regulation, the main reference book in legislative studies. She is Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS; Associate of the Centre for European Constitutional Law (Athens), the European Academy for Legislation (The Hague, until 2012), the Centre for Research in Language and Law, Napoli; Member of the Advisory Board of Kimble Centre for Legal Drafting (Colley Law School, USA), the Centre for Legislation, LeTrobe (Austr), and the Legal Issues Centre at Otago (NZ); Visiting Fellow, University of Leiden; Guest Professor at Pisa, the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, the European Institute for Public Administration, Luxembourg, Ratzynger University, Israel; Member of the Editorial Board of EJLR, TPLeg, NovaLogos, and Hart series on EU Criminal Law; and President of the International Association for Legislation
Research Themes
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Helen came to UCL having served for 18 years at the IALS as the Director of the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies. She was the first UK Professor in Law and Legislative Drafting. Helen is one of the top experts in legislation, legislative drafting, legislative quality in the UK, the Commonwealth and the UK. She is the author of the 5th edition of Thornton's Legislative Drafting, the leading manual for drafting practitioners, and of Drafting Legislation: Art and Technology of Rules and Regulation, the leading academic reference book in legislative drafting. She is a consultant to governments, international and regional organisations both as a trainer and a drafter. She is now focusing on EU legislative quality. She is President of the International Association for Legislation, a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the IALS, and a Visiting Professor at QMUL.
Teaching Summary
Legislative Drafting; EU; Public;
Comparative Law and Methods
Pedagogical
approach: Cross-fertilisation between research and education by enhancing the
curriculum with latest research outputs, and informing research via research
questions arising in teaching and lecturing (connected curriculum)
Leadership
in education -selected indicators: Senior Fellow, Higher Education
Academy; Senior Fellow, Mentor, and Assessor, UCL Arena; Fellow,
Centre for Distance Education; External Examiner and Assessor to Greek
Universities; PGT (Brunel); Universities of Manchester, Westminster,
Malta; King’s Inns Dublin
Appointments
| 27-JUN-2019 | Dean, PGLaws Programmes, University of London | Laws | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 03-JAN-2016 | Senior Associate Research Fellow | IALS | University of London, United Kingdom |
| 03-JAN-2016 – 26-JUN-2018 | Director, International PGLaws Programmes, UoLondon | Laws | UCL, United Kingdom |
| 2011 – 2016 | Professor of Law and Legislativce Drafting | IALS | University of London, United Kingdom |
| 2005 – 2011 | Senior Lecturer | IALS | University of London, United Kingdom |
| 1998 – 2005 | Senior Research Fellow | IALS | University of London, United Kingdom |
| 1993 – 1998 | Lecturer | Faculty of Law | Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom |
| 1993 – 1998 | Lecturer | Law | Queen's Univesrity Belfast, United Kingdom |
Academic Background
| 1994 | Master of Laws | University of Durham | |
| Diploma of Law | University of London | ||
| 2017 | ATQ04 - Recognised by the HEA as a Senior Fellow | ||
| 2000 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Durham | |
| 1990 | Ptychion | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
